With Canada day and Independence day fast approaching, some makers are looking towards setting up their own fireworks to shoot off in celebration – sure you could use a match or lighter… or you could ...

For most beginning hardware hackers, Arduino is hard and Linux/Android is easy. The folks at UDOO, a Kickstarter project that ends tonight, aim to solve that by mixing the best of both worlds. The ...

We’ve previously covered how cool automatic blinds are. And we know the Amazon Echo is pretty awesome. This hack puts them together to use an Alexa voice command to open and close your blinds. DIY ...

Android: As if Tasker’s plugins weren’t powerful enough, the developer behind popular plugins like AutoVoice and AutoInput has released a new plugin that lets you control an Arduino from Tasker.

What's not to like about a bit of IoT-style speech recognition, using Arduino and Android? That was what first caught my eye for a little prototype project documented on hackster.io. The idea is to ...