Lifehacker

How to Make a Joystick-Controlled Laser With an Arduino

In this project, we create a joystick-controlled laser by connecting two servos to a joystick and using this setup as a pan-and-tilt controller for a laser pointer. The following is excerpted from the ...
EDN

Arduino Pan & Tilt Bracket

Inspired by the Pan/Tilt bracket from SparkFun (sparkfun.com/products/10335), recently I built my first prototype of an Arduino-based Pan/Tilt Bracket for mounting my ...
Lifehacker

Build Your Own Pan-and-Tilt Security Camera with a Raspberry Pi and Arduino

We’ve seen plenty of surveillance cameras built from a Raspberry Pi, but MakeUseOf has a fun twist that also allows you to control the movement of the camera. This project uses a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3, ...
Hackaday

Reading Punch Cards With An Arduino And Digital Camera

[digitaltrails] wanted the data on a few old IBM 80-column punch cards he had lying around, but didn’t have decades old computer hardware in his garage. He decided to build his own out of LEGO, an ...
Hackaday

Tilt-Rotor Plane Needs Flight Controller Hack To Get Airborne

Part of the charm of quadcopters is the challenge that building and flying them presents. In need of complex sensors and computational power to just get off the ground and under tremendous stresses ...