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Hi, I am a beginner and am looking for projects to do with my arduino uno (r3) beginners kit. I have already completed the projects in the book, and I am looking for more! So, if anyone has recommendations for me, please tell me. (I have too much free time lol)

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Get yourself a bunch of weather/environment sensors, a ethernet shield, and a SD card module, and build a fully functional web weather station. Add a RF module and have external sensors that report back to the main board, and display multiple stations on the website (different rooms, shed, outdoors)

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Get yourself a BMS, IMU, RF module, and flight controller, and build a drone.

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That’s one I might wanna try

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Get a few 2.4GHz radios in fixed locations sending out their individual ID, then a mobile unit that reads them, works out their RSSI, and triangulates its own location based on that.

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That also sounds cool. :)

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Fair warning - all those projects I've suggested are fairly complex. They will take you on a VERY steep learning curve

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Okay, I’ll keep that in mind.

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  • We all like hand held remote controls.
    If your kit comes with an IR remote, try to understand this tutorial.

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  • Do you shovel snow ?
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Make a piano, which plays some sounds (it is easy, take buttons, transistor, few resistors and piezzo)

Now, when it works, lets improve it - make it play up to two tones at the same time (uno have 3 timers, one for millis(), two can be used to serve two different piezos, or maybe two transistors to one piezzo)

add SD card and record your play - I would use something like

{
  time_delta // how much time from previous record
  channel[0..1] {
    bool tone_off; // should tone end now?
    bool tone_on; // should new tone start?
    frequency;
  }
}

and then let it play back

in main loop you may implement metronome, which would click the Piezzo with another transistor at regular times (configurable, or set by potentiometer on analog pin)

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I don’t

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That’s very similar to a project in my kit

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If you have really lot of time and energy and buy just few more cheap items at price of normal dinner all together (connectors, 74HC chips..), you may make yourself programmable computer like this (UNO and Nano are basically identical except for dimensions)

or just gaming machine like that

and maybe learn a lot on the way :slight_smile:

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Check any university for their robotics program. The projects from the students will be posted. For example, this...

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Oh yeah, I am also getting an official arduino sensor kit soon, what projects can I do with that? (After the official projects)

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Hey there! I don’t know whether u have tried that or not, but I really suggest making projects using the hc-05 BT module and connecting these projects to mobile apps. (U can use MIT app inventor as an app-creating software for instance, which works for both IOS and android and is easy to learn)

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What’s that?

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That is a component which u connect to the arduino to enable it to connect to other devices using Bluetooth

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I really had a lot of fun making projects with it. U can make an RC car or a remote-controlled room lights, I switched my room lights to be remote controlled using a servo motor and this module connected to a nano arduino

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The one (from this topic I can try first) I want to do is from the website @xfpd recommended because it’s feasible with the materials I already have.