Getting hands-on with electronics and tinkering to the best of your ability is the quickest way to learning for beginners. As for experts, iron sharpens iron and the more you accomplish complex tasks the better you become in the long run. Keeping these in mind, this post will focus on 20 Raspberry Pi projects you …
Pressure sensors are widely used in drones, weather stations, smartphones and more. It is important to know how this small piece of technology works. We are going to be using the BPM180 sensor. The name of the module is GY-68. The small device can read, pressure, altitude, and temperature. Let’s build a small device that uses BPM180 …
Out of all the interesting Arduino Projects we have worked on in the past, this turned out to be a little more exciting. Here comes the not so popular tensiometry beam with the HX711 module that allows you to find the weight of an object. Strain gauges are widely used in industry to measure tensions and strains in sophisticated …
One of the most used types of wireless communication for TV remote control is IR (Infrared). This Arduino project is going to be about using IR. One of the places you will also always find an IR controlled device is in AC (Air Conditioning system) and projectors. Infrared is the perfect low energy technology, it works …
One of the most popular ways to display digits for Arduino is using the alphanumerical LCD. Some of the common ways also include display types like graphical (a very popular display from Nokia phones), E-paper, LCD and LED displays. LED displays are the simplest. It is made out of LEDs, those LEDs are connected into segments mostly …
In the spirit of giving, this article will provide tips on the best gifts you can consider giving to a loved one practicing the admirable profession of engineering. The following paragraphs will provide an outline of some of the gifts we believe prospective engineers would definitely appreciate due to their use in the various engineering …
Arduino is an open source hardware and software that allows you to perform your own electronic projects in a fun way. It is perfect to introduce anyone to robotics and programming and it’s so simple even children can use it. Projects can be very simple, like blinking LEDs, or quite complex and challenging, such as …
As the holiday season fast approaches, family, friends and loved ones are once again on the hunt to find the perfect gift to fit under that Christmas tree in your living room that is guaranteed to light up the faces of our loved ones. So to help you bring that glow here is a little gift …
In one of our previous Arduino project, we used a PIR motion sensor to detect movement. PIR sensors use infrared that is emitted by objects to detect movement. In this tutorial, we are going to use a MPU6050 sensor that has build-in accelerometer and gyroscope to detect movement. The latter is often used in drones, balancing …
Do you know what skipasses, credit cards and clothes have in common? You may think about plastic but connecting plastic to the Arduino wouldn’t make anything functionally amazing. What we will do today is reading and authorizing RFID tags using the Arduino Uno board. RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification. It is commonly confused with NFC which …
The essential sensors for home automation are the following: the movement sensor like the PIR sensor we’ve made used of here the flood sensor the temperature sensor the humidity sensor Today, we are going to add one more sensor to the list: the Reed switch. The Reed switch is a simple contact that closes when …
If developing electronic components, hardware or devices has been one of your dreams, then you are in the right place. In this post, you will be introduced to a simple Arduino project using the Arduino Uno board. This beginner project is focused on building a countdown timer using an Arduino Uno and a couple of …