When RadioShack announced last year that it was starting to stock Arduinos we knew just what to do: we went shopping. It's one of our favorite tools to use and we were up for any excuse to use more of them.
 The cool thing about Arduino is that it lets you do so many different things that it's really about what the user can think of. And we thought of so many things to do. Thanks to the Arduino we were able to feed pets with tweets, water our plants automatically, make a guitar pedal for crazy sounds, and so much more.
So please dig into all these projects of ours and find out what the Arduino is capable of. Redo a whole project or even just a part of one and make it your own. It's all about your own expression of what's great and the Arduino can be your new best friend in making it happen.

Here are twenty amazing Arduino projects that you almost wouldn't believe, if not for that they are the real deal. These authors have turned their wildest dreams into reality with the power of Arduino, an easy-to-use microcontroller development board. It is no wonder that Arduino literally translates to "Strong friend (masculine)" in Italian. Anything is possible with the mighty power of Arduino. It's compact, it's straightforward, and makes embedding electronics into the world-at-large fun and easy. Check out some of these amazing projects, and get inspired to build your own reality.

Modern power electronic converters are involved in a very broad spectrum of applications: switched-mode power supplies, electrical-machine-motion-control, active power filters, distributed power generation, flexible AC transmission systems, renewable energy conversion systems and vehicular technology, among them.

In high power, high voltage electronics systems, a strategy to manage short timescale energy imbalances is fundamental to the system reliability. Without a theoretical framework, harmful local convergence of energy can affect the dynamic process of transformation, transmission, and storage which create an unreliable system.