Are you looking for some cool ideas for Arduino projects? We’ve got you covered! Here, we listed exciting and unique Electronics project ideas you can explore with Arduino. These projects cover a wide range of applications, such as automating your home, creating smart gardening systems, building robots, designing IoT devices, and even making wearable technology.
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced maker, these Arduino projects provide a great opportunity to learn programming, electronics, and problem-solving skills.
Previously, we covered the 45+ mini-projects. This time, let’s explore specifically Arduino projects.
So, let your imagination run wild and bring your ideas to life with these Arduino projects!
List of Arduino Projects
1. Arduino-Based Gaming Glove
This Arduino-based gaming glove works like a mouse and keyboard in the air and allows you to control a graphic user interface (GUI). Enhance your gaming experience with this amazing glove powered by Arduino. Control virtual games and explore immersive VR worlds using easy hand movements.
Check Full Project Details with Code and Circuit: Arduino-based gaming glove
2. Arduino-based Sewer Drain Shield for Smart Cities
This DIY sewer drain shield system, combining ultrasonic sensors, GSM modules, nets, and PVC pipes, reduces debris entering drainage systems, thus ensuring cleaner, more efficient operations.
This solution is low-maintenance and labour-saving and supports sustainable waste management. It aligns with the Central government’s Clean India initiative, integrating smart waste management to protect water bodies.
Check Full Project here with Circuit and Code: Sewer Drain Shield
3. Arduino-based Digital Thermometer
This digital thermometer is built around an Arduino board (BOARD1), a temperature sensor LM35 (IC1), a 16×2 LCD (LCD1), and a few other components. Connect a 9-volt battery or adaptor to the board to operate it.
Check the Full Project details with the Circuit and Code: Digital Thermometer with Arduino
4. Control Appliances Wirelessly with Arduino
Creating a Bluetooth-controlled device with an Arduino Uno and an HC-05 Bluetooth module enables the control of lights or even relays to manage AC appliances wirelessly using an Android smartphone.
Check the full tutorial with the circuit and code.
5. Automated Washroom Light Using IR Sensors
This project is based on Arduino Uno and IR sensors and is used to automatically switch on and switch off a washroom’s light that works on AC mains. Whenever a person enters the washroom, the light bulb (or tube light) will automatically turn on. When the person leaves the bathroom, the light will turn off.
You can check the step-by-step guide to make this project here: Arduino-based Automated Washroom Light Using IR Sensors
6. Joystick-Controlled Industrial Automation System
This project can control up to four industrial electrical appliances with the help of a joystick and an Arduino Nano board.
Make This Joystick-Controlled Industrial Automation System
7. Arduino-Based Real-Time Digital Clock With Temperature Display
This project demonstrates how to build a real-time clock (RTC) with a temperature display using Arduino, a DS3231 RTC chip, and an SSD1306 OLED display (128×64 pixel).
Check the step-by-step guide to make this DIY Arduino clock: Arduino-Based Real-Time Clock With Temperature Display
8. Smart GPS Tracker Using Arduino
In this project, we build a smart tracker that can keep track of a child. Besides this, the device can also be used to track your vehicle location and other objects.
You can find all the details related to this project here: Arduino-based GPS Tracker
9. Flash Twenty LEDs Using Arduino
Presented here is the circuit that drives twenty LEDs in a random manner. This flasher has a chip that controls the random flashing rate of the LEDs.
Complete Circuit connection is available here: Flash Twenty LEDs Using Arduino
10. Alarm Clock Radio Using Arduino
This project describes how to make an alarm clock radio in Arduino. The main feature of this project is that it will display the date and time and will alarm at the desired time, and it has a radio function too.
Here, you can check the complete project details: Alarm Clock with Radio Using Arduino
11. Arduino-Based Wireless Frequency Meter
This project describes an Arduino-based wireless frequency meter designed to measure the frequency of sinusoidal AC signals in the range of 50Hz to 3kHz.
Make Arduino-Based Wireless Frequency Meter at Home
12. Arduino-Based Window Alarm Annunciator
Presented here is a window alarm annunciator based on an Arduino Uno board. An annunciator is mainly used in process plants, power plants, and industries to monitor various plant conditions to alert operators about abnormal conditions or parameter deviations.
Make this Arduino Uno-Based Window Alarm Annunciator
13. Noise Detector with Automatic Recording System
Introducing a Noise Detector System with an automatic recording feature! Tackle noise pollution in offices, libraries, and classrooms. This device alerts you to loud noises, records them, and can be a game-changer for productivity.
This project is available at Noise Detector with Automatic Recording System Using Arduino With IoT
14. Temperature-Based Fan Speed Control and Monitoring Using Arduino
This project is an automatic fan speed control and monitoring system that controls the speed of an electric fan according to the requirements using Arduino.
This project is available at Temperature-Based Fan Speed Control And Monitoring Using Arduino
15. ESP8266 Wireless Web Server
This ESP8266-based wireless web server project is built around an Arduino.
ESP8266 contains a built-in 32-bit low-power CPU, ROM, and RAM. It is a complete and self-contained Wi-Fi network solution that can carry software applications as a stand-alone device or connected with a microcontroller (MCU).
This project is available at ESP8266 wireless web server
16. Digital IC Tester With Embedded Truth Table
This article represents an Arduino-based digital IC tester that is highly capable, highly reliable as well as cost-effective. Here, we develop a program with different functions for checking different ICs.
This project is available at Digital IC tester with the embedded truth table
17. Arduino-Based RF Controlled Robot
Here, we present a simple Arduino-based RF-controlled robot that can be driven remotely. This robot can be built very quickly on a small budget. The RF remote control provides the advantage of a good controlling range (up to 100 meters with proper antennae), besides being omnidirectional.
This project is available at Arduino-based RF controlled robot
18. Fancy Lights Controller
The fancy lights controller described here is built around the Arduino (an open-source single-board microcontroller) platform that can be purchased in pre-assembled hardware form. The circuit is nothing but a portable four-channel, multi-mode digital light controller, realized using very few external components. Four LEDs are made to glow in different sequences and patterns, controlled from the Arduino board.
This project is available at Fancy Lights controller
19. PC-based Oscilloscope
Here, we describe how you can make your own oscilloscope at a very low cost using your PC and an Arduino board as the hardware for signal acquisition. You can use this oscilloscope to capture frequency signals up to 5 kHz. The Arduino board, the heart of the oscilloscope, reads the values from its inbuilt analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and pushes these to the PC via a USB port.
The project is available at PC-based oscilloscope
20. Humidity & Temperature Monitoring
The IoT using Arduino microcontroller (MCU) is easy and fun for those who are new to the field. Presented here is humidity and temperature monitoring using Arduino. In this article, humidity and temperature information from the DHT-11 Humidity and Temperature sensor is analyzed graphically on the ThingSpeak platform using Arduino MCU and ESP8266 Wi-Fi module.
This project is available at Humidity & temperature monitoring
21. Fingerprint Sensor Lock
This simple fingerprint door unlock project using Arduino can be very useful for door security, attendance systems, and much more. The whole system works under a simple algorithm called matching algorithm, which is used to compare previously-stored templates of fingerprints against users’ fingerprints for authentication purposes.
This project is available at Fingerprint Lock
22. Automated Plant Watering System
This project is a simple and exciting plant-watering system that you can build yourself in just a few hours. With efficient use of a moisture sensor and downloadable component layouts and source code, this could fit in perfectly for potted plants, be it on your terrace, the balcony, or the front lawn. It works everywhere.
You can check the step-by-step guide to make an Automatic Plant Watering System
23. Earthquake Detector
In this project, we will be constructing an earthquake indicator. A highly sensitive ADXL335 accelerometer is presented that can indicate vibrations.
If the motion is violent enough during an earthquake and crosses a certain threshold, a local alarm light (LED) glows, a buzzer sounds, and a relay energizes. With certain modifications, this can be turned into a knock-and-shake detector for ATMs, vehicles, or door-break alarms as well.
Build your own Earthquake Detector Project
24. GPS Clock
Here, we describe a GPS clock based on Arduino Uno R3—an AVR ATmega328-based microcontroller board with six analog input pins and 14 digital input/output (I/O) pins.
This project is available at GPS Clock Using Arduino
25. Home Automation Using an Android Device
This project is based on Interfacing an Android application to an Arduino Uno board using Bluetooth. The result is a home automation system with minimal electronic basic components without complex soldering and a simple and flexible design.
This project is available at Home Automation Using Arduino Through Android Device
26. Inverter Circuit
How much does an inverter cost? A basic model with a single battery costs about 20-25K INR. How about you just buy the battery and use this Arduino project for your inverter?
You can make your own Inverter at Home.
27. Build A Clap and Gesture-Controlled Robot
This is a two-in-one project to control a robot in four directions (forward, backward, right, and left) either by clapping or through simple gestures. It explains how a robot can be controlled using sound or gestures.
This project is available at Gesture-Controlled Robot
28. DC Motor Starter Using Arduino Uno Board
Here, we describe an electronic DC motor starter using an Arduino Uno board. This circuit controls both soft-start and soft-stop timings through pulse-width modulation (PWM).
This project is available at DC Motor Starter Using Arduino Uno Board
29. Home Automation Arduino Project
This project is based on the Android app and Arduino Uno, using Bluetooth as the wireless communication medium. It is a simple and flexible home automation system with only a few electronic components and without complex soldering. This project is designed to control three appliances but can be extended to six or more using an Android Phone.
This project is available at Home Automation Using Arduino Through Android Device
23. IoT-Based Smart Camera Using Android And Raspberry Pi
Presented here is a project that lets your Raspberry Pi (RPi) turn into an IoT-based smart camera and then control and watch the live video being captured by this camera on your smartphone from anywhere on the planet.
This project is available at IoT-Based Smart Camera Using Android And Raspberry Pi
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