I highly recommend you download Sparkfun’s Inventors Guide. It will give you a lot of valuable information on how to use the Arduino, trigger some neat ideas of your own, and Sparkfun is a valuable resource for components and sample

The Arduino seems the ideal platform for making your own medical monitoring system. Your temperature, heart rate, respirations, blood pressure, weight and O2 content of the blood are all measurable and loggable. Here are a few links to get you

In this webcast, Make Editor Brian Jepson introduces the basics of Arduino, the open source electronics prototyping platform. You’ll learn what Arduino is, where to get one, and how to connect electronic components to it. You’ll also learn how to

Security system sensors such as motion detectors, reed switches, pressure mats, glass-break detectors, infra-red beams, and conductive film can be very handy for all sorts of things including home automation systems, interactive art installations – and sometimes even security systems!

Carlos from Brazil has designed a pH meter using the Arduino. Although not available for sale yet (unless someone can help him get a full version of Eagle), all the code and associated files are available for download. pHduino is

There’s a number of good references on the net where folks are using the Arduino to control various aspects of their model railroad layouts. Here’s a number of interesting projects: Become the Maker you were born to be. Try Arduino