https://nyghtowl.com/tags/hardware/ Recent content in Hardware on Nyghtowl Hugo en-us <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a> Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:22:30 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2013/10/silicon-chef-hackathon/ Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:22:30 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2013/10/silicon-chef-hackathon/ <p>Last weekend at Silicon Chef, the first all women hardware hackathon, there were over 100 participants and 20 projects demoed. My team built an Arduino on Parallax wheels controlled by a Leap Motion (3D programmable motion sensor). Check out the video to see our robot car.</p> <p><strong>Leaprobo Project Idea</strong>I bought the Parallax kit several months ago with the intent of attaching it to my Arduino because I think everything is better with wheels (almost everything). However, I was too busy with so many other projects and things to study that I didn’t get around to assembling it until now. When the hackathon came up, it seemed like the perfect motivator to break out the wheel kit. Plus, my team had heard about Leap Motion and controlling things with a sensor seemed like a fun. Thus, the idea for the Leaprobo project came together.</p>