Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Edward Mallon writes: While I loved the Nokia 5110 LCD's readability in full sun, the pressure sensitivity was a real problem for the underwater units. So I started noodling around with some cheap OLED screens from eBay. With the exception of the init & XY functions (which are more complicated...Tags: data logger, SSD1306
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
Vagrearg published a new build: Lies, damn lies and statistics. You have a high school science fair and want to know how your project was perceived by the visitors. Modern online behaviour will direct you to "taking the online survey". That requires an extra step for the visitors, usually by...Tags: Arduino Pro Mini
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2018
A how-to getting an LED flashing using VHDL from Harris' Electronics: The cheap price however comes with a few niggles, namely getting it up and running in the first place with the limited documentation. Gnarly Grey do a great job of explaining programming a starting program but don’t say much...Tags: Lattice, LED, VHDL
Posted in Arduino, FPGA | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
Edward Mallon writes: This is a follow-up to our post about using Nokia 5110 screens on three unused analog lines with shift-out. That saved me from messing with the hardware SPI bus which we reserve for the SD cards. A secondary benefit is that the code is really lean, on...Posted in Arduino, tutorials | No Comments »
Thursday, July 19th, 2018
A how-to on using an I2C LCD display with the ESP32 using Arduino IDE from Random Nerd Tutorials: This tutorial shows how to use the I2C LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) with the ESP32 using Arduino IDE. We’ll show you how to wire the display, install the library and try sample...Tags: Arduino IDE, how-to
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Monday, July 16th, 2018
Kerry Wong writes: For simplicity, I used a single rotary encoder for controlling the attenuation. In order to prevent accidentally changing the set attenuation value, I used the built-in switch of the rotary encoder as the lock/adjust control. The idea is that the attenuation value can only be adjusted when...Tags: Analog Devices, HMC624LP4E
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Friday, July 13th, 2018
A how-to on making a Dual-sensor ultrasonic echo locator by lingib, project instructables here: This instructable explains how to pinpoint the location of an object using an Arduino, two ultrasonic sensors, and Heron’s formula for triangles. There are no moving parts. Heron’s formula allows you to calculate the area of any triangle...Posted in Arduino, sensors, tutorials | No Comments »
Monday, July 2nd, 2018
Nick over at educ8s.tv shared detailed instructions of how to build this DIY Art Deco style FM Radio project using Arduino: Let’s see what we are going to build today! As you can see, we are going to build an Art Deco style FM radio receiver. The design of this...Tags: radio
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Thursday, June 28th, 2018
Mare writes: Lora board with Arduino nano compatibile pinout and simple battery management Small board with arduino nano compatibile pinout with power management and Murata ABZ LoRa module with STM32L0 microcontroller Features: -LoRa module: Murata ABZ -Single cell LiPo cell charger on-board with charging signal internally connected to PA11 (via...Tags: Arduino Nano, LoRa
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Thursday, June 28th, 2018
Giovanni Carrera blogged about his touch numeric keyboard for Arduino or Teensy: Very often, for our programs, we need a system to set parameters, usually of a numerical type. A 4x4 keyboard requires some space and then we also need a display. Here is the idea of using a touchscreen...Tags: ADC, Arduino, Logger, Teensy
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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
Posted in Arduino, LCD | 2 Comments »
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
Posted in Arduino, infrared | 1 Comment »
