LCDs are the easiest way to display data out of your electronics project and they are widely used in electronics. The most popular ones are alphanumeric ones, just like the one we used in this project. What if you need to display more complex data or graphics? One of the cheapest solutions to this is to …
We’ve learned how to use the LCD module, the microphone module, LEDs and the potentiometer. Those are devices you will make use of most of the time. Today, we are going to be working with the Arduino color sensor module. It is a quite unpopular piece but often very useful and easy to use. The color …
If you happen to have flowers you need to water often in your home, this can be the beginning of a cool adventure. You can use the soil moisture combined with the Arduino board to help you remember to water your plants when needed. We can add a buzzer and a LED to singal that …
Here is a project that will help you build your own Arduino stopwatch using the Arduino Board and a few other components. After working on this basic Arduino countdown timer, a user suggested adding few more functionality to it, which is why we are coming back with this other timer with a short list of …
With this project, we are going to be working with a less popular sensor that we have been so far: the current sensor. A current sensor can be super useful to monitor the amount of current that flows into a motor, for example, this can help avoid overloading your motor when it is in use …
Arduino has emerged as one of the most popular tools for students and makers to express creativity and build projects. Many people start off working on the standard Arduino IDE for their programming. However, people who aren’t familiar with C or don’t like using text-based programming can sometimes spend many weeks becoming comfortable enough to …
As a 3D printing enthusiast or hobbyist with kids, it is no stretch to guess that you are either interested in bringing your young ones into the printing fold or they themselves are interested in learning about why it brings you so much joy. So how does one go about teaching kids—in the 8 to …
This is a project come true for me after about a dozen years. Let me tell you the story. A long time ago, as a toddler, I watched a movie where a man used a clap to switch off a lamp and it made more than excited. I so wanted to be able to do …
We’ve built an obstacle avoiding robot and a Bluetooth controlled robot in the past. What we didn’t do yet is one of the most popular robots every beginner do when starting with robotics. A line follower! A line follower is a satisfying robot especially when it follows the line the way you want it to. …
We have used LCD displays in the previous posts with the I2C, but it is possible to use it without an I2C. Let’s see how this is done. We will take the advantage to visit some of the useful function you can make use of when working with LCDs. Using the Arduino serial LCD module …
One of the most popular projects made with Arduino is a data logger. You can find a lot of these on the internet, but most of them are huge, sophisticated projects with a whole bunch of sensors and unnecessary additions. I like it when things and simple and clean making it easy for you to learn and …
Are microcontrollers expensive? The little research we conducted put the average price for microcontrollers at $30, which should not be considered as too expensive to the average person. But in terms of features and capabilities, microcontrollers differ according to their brands as well as the firm behind their development. And in the world of Microcontrollers, …
For a lot of newbies meddling in the field of DIY electronics, making use of the Arduino IDE—software for writing sketches, programming, upload these programs and communicate. This is due to the fact that Arduino microcontrollers are currently the most used tools in electronics, and Arduino offers its own IDE which every newbie generally uses …
The Arduino is a quite versatile board from which a lot of great ideas and fun can come from. For this project, we are not going to push past using a single Arduino board. Let’s make two Arduino board exchange information between them. The easiest way for Arduino to Arduino communication is by using the …
The past seven years has been one of excitement for computer and electronic enthusiasts across the world. This excitement was and is due to the development of Raspberry Pi’s compact computers that have gone on the change the computing. Since its inception in 2012, Raspberry Pi has continued to grow in strength with every release …