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With Arduino Day celebrations just about to kick off, let’s take a look at some cool ‘duino projects!

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Atmel  powers Arduino . Arduino enables Maker. Maker inspires the world. While there are countless creations all over the web, we’ve compiled just a few of the most dynamic and different ‘duino projects from the past couple of months to help celebrate March 28th.

As you can tell, the open-source platform has come a long way since its inception a decade ago. Today, the Arduino family has grown to include more than two dozen low-cost boards, a community with hundreds of thousands of tinkerers and over a million (and counting) Arduino units in the wild.

So without further ado, here’s some of our favorite projects to kickoff Arduino Day festivities!

Unlocking doors by saying ‘open sesame!’

MIT student Dheera Venkatraman has developed a new way for users to wirelessly unlock their doors with simple Google Now-like commands.

Wearing an Enigma machine

Designed by Maker “Asciimation” the Enigma wristwatch is a…