Arduino / Hacked Toy Internet Alert Circuit

We decided to create a circuit that would activate a toy whenever someone logged into Roth Mobot's web site. We designed a simple system using an Arduiino, a home made Vactrol, a common electronic toy, and three simple scripts written in three programming languages We'd like to thank Chicago's Factory Smoke for his Vactrol suggestion, which stopped us from creating overly-complicated custom circuitry with transistors and diodes, and made the programming a piece of cake, resulting in an elegant circuit that electrically insulates the toy from the Arduino and the computer, and instead "optically couples" them with light.

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Science & Technology

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• circuit bending
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• arduino
• roth mobot
• tommy stephenson
• patrick mccarthy
• chicago
• experimental electronics
• moth robot