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ChipKIT based weather station using BME280 sensor module

A comprehensive tutorial on making a chipKIT based weather station using BME280 sensor module from Embedded Lab: BME280 is a fully integrated environmental unit from Bosch that combines sensors for pressure, humidity, and temperature in a tiny 8-pin metal-lid LGA package of size 2.5 x 2.5 x 0.93 mm³. Because of its compact size, ease […]

Guide for BMP180 barometric sensor with Arduino

A how-to on using the BMP180 barometric sensor with the Arduino from Random Nerd Tutorials: The BMP180 barometric sensor (model GY-68) is the one in the following figure (front and back view). It is a very small module with 1mm x 1.1mm (0.039in x 0.043in). It measures the absolute pressure of the air around it. It […]

Tutorial: RFID tags with the NXP NFC controller PN7120 and Eclipse

Erich Styger writes: Playing with RFID and NFC is definitely fun?, and they are everywhere! For a research project I’m exploring different RFID tags and solutions. I several types around for a long time, but never found the time to actually work on it, so last nightI thought I give it a try, and I […]

Tutorial: DHT22 sensor with a PICmicro

Gianni Bernardo has published a tutorial for usage of DHT22 sensor with a PICmicro (machine translation). Tutorial about DHT22 / AM2302 Digital Humidity and Temperature sensor usage on picmicro, using XC Compiler. Code is for a PIC12F1822, data from sensor are formatted and sent on UART @9600baud Source code is available on github. Via the contact […]

Video: Talk MIDI with the Bus Pirate on Talk Like a Pirate Day

Here’s a video tutorial on how to set up the Bus Prate for the MIDI protocol from Bent-Tronics: Until now there hasn’t been much on the interwebs on how to set up the Dangerous Prototypes Bus Pirate for decoding MIDI data. Here’s my contribution, which happens to be on International Talk Like a Pirate Day. More […]

Make the world’s cheapest MIDI tester

Jesse from Bent-Tronics has posted a tutorial on how to make a DIY MIDI tester: A quick and dirty (and cheap) MIDI tester.  Sometimes you just need to know if a MIDI controller is outputting anything. Even many high-end MIDI modules/boxes will have a “MIDI Activity” light, just to let you know something is being transmitted/received. That’s […]

How to build a control circuit with adjustable working time via wi-fi

Yahya Tawil over at All About Circuits posted a detailed how-to on building a control circuit with adjustable working time via Wi-Fi: In this article, you’ll learn how to build a system that can turn DC loads on and off using a mobile application. You’ll also learn how to perform this task via immediate actions or via […]

Neoway M590 GPRS tutorial: sending and receiving files from/to SD card

Neoway M590 GPRS tutorial on sending and receiving files from/to SD card from Vadim Panov: Here’s a bit of useful info from what I’ve been doing lately. I got a job to design a device that connects to a web-server via GPRS and downloads a bunch of tiny WAV files, that it later plays on […]

Getting started with OPENOCD using FT2232H adapter for SWD debugging

Yahya Tawil wrote a tutorial about flashing EFM32 MCUs with OpenOCD using FT2232H adapter: Learn how to make flashing your ARM-based MCU easy by using OpenOCD debugger with an FT2232H adapter. Old MCUs from vendors like ATMEL and MICROCHIP, like the PIC16F and Atmega family, tend to have a special programming interface to program internal […]

Raspberry Pi web server using flask to control GPIOs

Rui Santos from Random Nerd Tutorials writes: In this project you’ll create a standalone web server with a Raspberry Pi that can toggle two LEDs. You can replace those LEDs with any output (like a relay or a transistor). In order to create the web server you will be using a Python microframework called Flask. […]

Using BMP180 for temperature, pressure and altitude measurements

Raj from Embedded Lab has posted a comprehensive tutorial on how to use BMP180 for temperature, pressure, and altitude measurements: The BMP180 is a new generation digital barometric pressure and temperature sensor from Bosch Sensortec. In this tutorial, we will briefly review this device and describe how to interface it with an Arduino Uno board for […]

How do I FPGA?

TC-Engineering writes: I’ve been thinking about building stuff with FPGA’s for a while, and usually get turned away because FPGA’s are considerably harder to implement than microcontrollers since they have no on-chip memory. It is necessary to re-program the gates every time they power up, which requires an external flash memory chip. There aren’t great […]

ESP8266 – Wireless weather station with data logging to Excel

Rui Santos writes, “In this project we are going to establish a wireless communication between two ESPs and send data from three sensors to an Excel spreadsheet. This tutorial shows a wireless weather station with data logging that you can implement in your home.” Project info at Random Nerd Tutorials site.