Customer Projects

Check out these projects built by our customers.  They range from data logging, to animatronic displays, to projects that mess with your cat.

I hope you’ll find the following projects as interesting as we do!

Arduino Mega on a wood job next to a grandfather clock pendulum

Measuring the time interval cycle for the pendulum on large grandfather clocks using Arduino :: Student Project

How fast does a clock tic toc? That’s what John Brigham wanted to figure out, so he used an Arduino and a very basic photo-interrupter circuit to measure it. Read more below about what inspired him to measure time intervals…

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LED lighting system for plastic UFO model using Arduino :: Student Project

Do aliens use Arduino? OK, maybe not…but a great way to create a fading eerie glow for a UFO model is an Arduino Nano and a handful of LEDs! This neat and simple project was submitted by Stephen Dearden, a customer…

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collage of arduino components

RV Camper-Van Power Cabinet Fan Controller System with Arduino :: Student Project

Sometimes you have a problem, and you just need a solution. Jack Tinsley (a customer of PEA) had a problem with the power-cabinet in his Camper-Van. In his own words: The real problem happens when I’m driving on a long…

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Arduino RPM and Speedometer for Fast Bikes (or Cars) :: Student Project

The need for speed.  It’s been around for a long time… I remember reading Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, and being amazed by Chichikovs love of driving fast in a horse drawn carriage: “Selifan flourished his whip and shouted, “Hi,…

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Plastic trident with LEDs

Arduino Controlled NeoPixel Trident :: Student Project

What better way to display your team pride than wielding a 6ft tall, NeoPixel blazing trident during the competition?  Especially if you’re a member of the FIRST FRC Team 4296 “Trident Robotics”! Mark Balla, a Mentor to the FIRST team,…

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circular looking robot with wires and Arduinos

Autonomous Robot with Arduino, a Single Board Computer, and More :: Student Project

Charles, you built what?! An autonomous robot that responds to voice commands and reacts to its environment? With Arduino, single board computers, and a metric ton of sensors? “Wow!” Charles, a computer technician from New Zealand, is an electronics and…

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creadboard, LCDs, and potted plants, and Arduino

Full Force STEM with teacher Chris Regini :: Student Projects

Chris Regini, a middle school teacher in New York, has been bringing STEM (and Arduino) to his classroom in full force.  His current collaboration with his students is a vertical hydroponics monitoring and automation system that uses several Arduino and…

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Homebrewing with Arduino – An Obsession with Fermentation

Ever done any homebrewing?  If you have, it’s hard not to have Arduino pass through your mind as a tool to help in the process. The following Arduino homebrew project is the result of a ton of hard work and…

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ESP8266 Auto Router Resetter

One of our members, John Simister, had a problem. Check out what John did in his own words (I have added emphasis and headings to break it up). The Problem “I have just completed a project that I have been…

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Picture of Gecko with tounge out in his ESP8266 controlled habitat

ESP8266 Controlled Gecko Habitat :: Student Project

A student of our course, John Hart, is at it again with an interesting new project that uses an ESP8266 to control the temperature of the family pet gecko habitat. The ESP8266 is a low cost WiFi module that can…

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