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Internet of Food: Arduino-Based Urban Aquaponics in Oakland
YouTube video documenting an Arduino-based urban aquaponics system in Oakland — combining IoT sensor monitoring with a closed-loop fish-and-plant growing system. Sits at the intersection of hardware hacking and urban food production.
Internet of Food: Arduino-Based Urban Aquaponics in Oakland
A video profile of Kijani Grows in Oakland, using Arduino-based sensors to automate an urban aquaponics system — an early 2012 example of IoT applied to food production and urban agriculture, before 'IoT' was common vocabulary.
DIY Home Automation Using Twilio, PowerSwitch, Arduino, and Pusher
A 2012 Twilio blog post showing how to build DIY home automation using Twilio for SMS control, an Arduino with PowerSwitch Tail relay for electrical switching, and Pusher for real-time status updates. An early blueprint for the hacker home automation pattern.
AVRQueue: Task Scheduler and Watchdog for Arduino
AVRQueue is a cooperative task scheduler and watchdog for Arduino/AVR microcontrollers — lets you run multiple pseudo-concurrent tasks without an RTOS. Useful when polling multiple sensors or peripherals in a loop without blocking.
DIY Bioprinter: CD Drives + Arduino + Inkshield at BioCurious
A tweet from @PatrikD showing a DIY bioprinter built from two old CD drives, an Arduino, and an Inkshield at BioCurious. A snapshot of the early DIY biology movement using salvaged hardware to replicate lab-grade biotechnology.
Hack Your Housing: Berkeley Freshman's Ridiculously Automated Dorm Room
TechCrunch profile of a UC Berkeley freshman who wired his dorm room with sensors and scripts — including an 'Emergency Party' button — as an early consumer IoT project. A 2012 maker-culture story about students treating their environment as a hackable system.
Magnetic Core Memory Reborn as an Arduino Shield
The Core Memory Shield brought 1950s magnetic core memory technology back as an Arduino accessory — a working piece of computing history you could wire up to modern microcontrollers. More art project than practical tool, but a beautiful one.
Teensy USB Development Board
The Teensy USB development board by PJRC — a compact Arduino-compatible microcontroller with native USB. Bookmarked while seeking cheaper Arduino alternatives, it represents the early 2010s maker movement's economics problem: capable hardware at accessible price points.