Friday, June 22nd, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFAcZmmxHA&list=PL79ZjHgoYtfzvDKPADJH7HPYDFFlxSLXt From the comments on our Arduino data logger post: A visiting researcher dropped by our humble basement workshop with questions about the physical skill level students would need if they added one of our DIY data loggers to their environmental curriculum. I figured the easiest way to cover that was...Tags: Arduino, data logger
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Monday, June 18th, 2018
David Zweben published a project writeup showing how he built a Neopixel clock powered by an Arduino Pro Mini clone and a real time clock module: After building my first Neopixel Clock, I decided I needed one for myself. There was no way I was going to solder 90 lengths...Tags: Arduino, clock
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Monday, June 4th, 2018
James Lewis over at Bald Engineer writes, "For an AddOhms series, I created a DIY Arduino I am calling the “Pyramiduino.” It is an ATmega328p based board in the shape of a triangle. Other than being cute, the shape does not offer any other benefit. The design features a 3.3...Tags: ATMega328p, LDO regulator
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
A how-to on building a time attendance system with MFRC522 RFID Reader and Arduino from Random Nerd Tutorials: Before getting started it’s important to layout the project main features: *It contains an RFID reader that reads RFID tags; *Our setup has a real time clock module to keep track of time; *When...Tags: how-to, MFRC522, RFID reader
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Friday, May 25th, 2018
From the comments on our ChipKIT based weather station using BME280 sensor module post, Edward Mallon writes: A lot of us have ended up at this sensor / screen combination. But I couldn’t afford the extravagance of six dedicated control lines on our little pro mini based loggers. However with some...Tags: data logger, Nokia
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Friday, May 18th, 2018
Matt Brailsford (aka Circuitbeard) has a nice write-up about building his mini pinball machine with a lattepanda core running dual monitors: I generally start my projects by thinking about the hardware that I’m going to want to use as I’ll need to know sizes when it comes to the design phase....Tags: DIY, game, lattepanda
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
Facelesstech published a new build: So you are using a bare attiny85 in your next project but don’t have room for the programming header, What do you do? I came up with the idea of using pogo pins layed out on A PCB so that they will sit on top...Tags: Attiny85, soldering
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Friday, May 4th, 2018
nop head writes: I came across a very useful post by Thomas Scherrer that describes how to read data from a Peacefair PZEM-021 energy meter by spying on the SPI bus with an Arduino. I decided to do the same thing with an ESP-12F WiFi module so that I could...Tags: ESP8266, SPI bus
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
Dejan Nedelkovski over at HowToMechatronics shared detailed tutorial on how servo motors work and how to control servos using Arduino and PCA9685 PWM driver: There are many types of servo motors and their main feature is the ability to precisely control the position of their shaft. A servo motor is...Tags: PCA9685, PWM, servo motors
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
Alvaro Prieto made an IR volume controller and wrote a post on his blog detailing its assembly: Nui is an IR controlled volume controller for analog audio. It sits between your audio source and speakers and can amplify or reduce the volume using IR commands (and eventually BLE). Why...Tags: IR, volume controller
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
Here's an Arduino based open source MIDI controller by Musico Nerd, the Traktorino: The Traktorino is a powerful low-cost DIY MIDI Controller. It is based in the Arduino platform and it comes in DIY kit, or assembled. In its core, there’s a shield that connects to an Arduino Uno, which...Tags: Arduino, MIDI
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Friday, March 30th, 2018
Nicu Florica writes: A reader of my sites and blogs, Mr. Liviu Hinoveanu wanted to replace classical DRL module made with 555 with Attiny85 programmed in Arduino style. He send me the schematic and PCB designed with Livewire and PCB Wisard software After I undertand what module must work, I...Tags: ATiny85, DRL
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Monday, March 12th, 2018
Facelesstech published a new build: So some time last year I ordered one of those servo 2 axes (pan and tilt torret) arm kits from aliexpress. It was fun to play with but I didn’t quite find a reason to use it in a project. Then I seen this project on hackaday and...Tags: Arduino Leonardo, servo
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
Here’s the part 3 of Dimitris' Arduino controlled Dual Mono AK4490 DAC project we covered previously: Following up on Part 2, it’s time to talk about the output stage. This output stage is the brainchild of my friend Kostas, all I did was lay out the PCB. It is a fully...Tags: AK4490, audio, dual mono
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Friday, January 19th, 2018
Bdring built his own Arduino-based 1D dungeon crawler inspired by Robin Baumgarten's Line Wobbler: I have been a Patron of Robin Baumgarten for a while. He makes experimental hardware for games. His Line Wobbler one dimensional dungeon crawler is my favorite and I have always wanted to play it. It...Tags: dungeon crawler, game console
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Thursday, January 18th, 2018
Yahya Tawil over at Atadiat wrote a new tip for Arduino developers about three hidden and useful features in Arduino core: Arduino core, the source code of Arduino API functions and classes, has three useful features that can be used effectively. As the Arduino core documentation doesn’t mention them (at least...Tags: Arduino core, Tips & Tricks
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Monday, January 15th, 2018
Edward Mallon writes: This post isn’t another How-To tutorial for a specific sensor because the Arduino community has already produced a considerable number of resources like that. You’d be hard pressed to find any sensor in the DIY market that doesn’t give you a dozen cookbook recipes to follow after...Tags: data logger, sensor
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2017
An update on Arduino controlled Dual Mono AK4490 DAC project we covered previously: After I was certain that everything related to the software was working the way it should, I designed a “motherboard” that would take care of the following: Accept the STM32F106 board Accept the 3.5″ TFT Accommodate an...Tags: Arduino, DIY
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Thursday, November 30th, 2017
Steve documented his experience experimenting with home weather logging: Like a million other people on the Internet, I’ve been experimenting with home weather logging. I roll my eyes at the phrase “Internet of Things”, but it’s hard to deny the potential of cheap networked sensors and switches, and a weather...Tags: ESP8266, weather logger
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Thursday, November 16th, 2017
This article is the first of a series detailing the design and build process of an Arduino controlled Dual Mono AK4490 DAC by DimDim: The design goal was to do a dual mono design so as to maximize SNR and channel separation. A 4-layer PCB design was chosen so as to...Tags: AK4490, audio, dual mono
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