Python is a high-level, interpreted programming language that is widely used for web development, data analysis, artificial intelligence, and scientific computing. It is known for its simplicity, readability, and flexibility, which make it a popular choice for beginners and experienced programmers alike.
Using Python with Arduino is a good choice because it allows you to take advantage of the powerful and easy-to-use libraries and frameworks available in the Python ecosystem, while also being able to interact with the hardware capabilities of the Arduino. This can be especially useful for tasks such as data logging, image processing, and connecting to external APIs or services.
One of the main benefits of using Python with Arduino is that it allows you to easily prototype and test your ideas, without the need to compile and upload code to the Arduino each time you make a change. This can save a lot of time and effort, especially when working on more complex projects.
In addition, Python has a large and active community of users and developers, which means that you can find a wealth of resources, documentation, and support online to help you get started and learn more about using Python with Arduino.
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BLUETERA II – FULL-STACK DEV BOARD THAT USES PROTOCOL BUFFERS FOR MOTION-BASED IOT APPLICATIONSMany of our clients face a common challenge when undertaking IoT projects. They are experts in their own fields, and most of of them have a great idea, a proof-of-concept…
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ARROW ELECTRONICS INTRODUCES LOW-COST, RAPID PROTOTYPING DATA ACQUISITION PLATFORMSLow-power, low-noise Analog Devices ICs and Intel MAX 10 FPGA in compact 86.5mm x 25mm outline Analog Devices and Arrow Electronics have worked with Trenz Electronic GmbH to produce three…
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BBC MICRO:BIT AS HANDHELD SYNTHESIZERThe BBC Micro:bit, while not quite as popular in our community as other microcontroller development boards, has a few quirks that can make it a much more interesting piece of…
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Python Programming IDEs for ArduinoToday we will be discussing Python Programming IDEs for Arduino, There are a few different options for using Python to program an Arduino board: Four Main Python Programming IDEs for…
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Blink led example arduino with pythonTo blink an LED with an Arduino using Python, you will need to: Connect the LED to the Arduino board. You will need to connect the positive leg of the…
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WEMO’S LAUNCHES W600-PICO THAT SUPPORTS MICRO-PYTHON FOR ONLY $2W600 – PICO is currently the most recent board released by Wemos. The company is responsible for boards like the D1 and D32. This board is based on a Winner Micro – W600 SoC. The…
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ARDUINO PRO IDEFrom its lack of simple things like code IntelliSense to more complex requirements like a debugger, quite a number of articles and comments have been written in the past about the inadequacies of the…
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Measure Pressure With Your Micro:bitThe following instructable describes a easy to build and inexpensive device to perform pressure measurements and demonstrate Boyle's law, using the micro:bit in combination with the BMP280 pressure/temperature sensor. Whereas…
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W600-PICO – A NEW $2 WIFI IOT BOARD THAT RUNS MICROPYTHONThe beauty of capable computing is that aside from being cheap enough, it should also be good enough. While we have seen some great WiFi IoT boards like Wemos D1 mini and Lolin32,…
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ARDUINO BRINGS A MICROPYTHON IDEBoth Arduino and MicroPython are giants when it comes to the electronics education area, and each one of them represents something you can’t pass up on as an educator. Arduino…
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MicroPython officially joins the Arduino ecosystemDevelopers, hobbyists, and Arduino enthusiasts be interested to know that MicroPython has officially become part of the Arduino ecosystem. The Arduino team has also created a new Arduino Lab for…
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Kickstarter Backer Alert with Stats Scroller, using Arduino YunThe Arduino Yún is a curious addition to the Arduino family. There is a fairly widespread community surrounding the Arduino concept, platform and software. There's another popular community dedicated to…
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INKPLATE 6 IS A PROGRAMMABLE KINDLE E-PAPER DISPLAYIf you have ever wondered if there could be a better use for old Kindle screens, then you have to check out the new e-paper display made by e-radionica. The Inkplate 6 is…
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ARDUINO NANO BLE SENSE – TinyML FITNESS BAND USING EDGE IMPULSEIt is a disruptive fitness solution where we classified different physical motions and body positions using arduino nano ble sense. Description TinyML fitness band using "EDGE IMPULSE" is a disruptive…
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SERPENTINE – TINY CIRCUITPYTHON-BASED DEVELOPMENT BOARDCircuitPython’s user base is growing even though a lot of people believe Micropython is a better route. It enjoys the rigorous backing 0f one of the major drivers of the Maker community (Aka…
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Scan QR Codes with Raspberry Pi PicoTo extract information from QR codes and use a Barcode & QR Code HAT and a Raspberry Pi Pico. Description To extract information from QR codes and (even create your…
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Interface Arduino to MySQL using PythonHere's a brief tutorial that should get you up and running interfacing your Adruino with a MySQL database. For the sake of this tutorial, I am assuming you know how…
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Gesture based Intelligent Appliance ControlWith Artificial Intelligence, the science fiction is turning into reality and automation is taking... Description With Artificial Intelligence, the science fiction is turning into reality and automation is taking over…
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Frontdoor light switch based on local sunset/sunrisePi-files: Frontdoor light switch based on local sunset/sunrise I have a couple of front door LED lights which I would like to switch on automatically during the evening/night. The two…
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Internet Devices for Home Automation using ArduinoThis instructable shows the principles involved in making devices to control home automation over the internet. We're going to construct a device (or several of them), that talk to each…
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How to Make a Basic Computer Mouse Using the Joystick Module and Arduino UnoThis instructable will show you how to make a joystick controlled mouse using Arduino Uno and the joystick module. Supplies You will need- One Arduino Uno5 jumper wiresOne JoystickArduino IDEPython…
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TRS-80 MODEL 100 GETS ARDUINO HEART TRANSPLANTWhen [Stephen Cass] found himself with a broken Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 portable computer, the simplest solution was to buy another broken one and make one working computer from two…
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Doorbell alert with pushmessage and mail with webcam footagePi-files: Doorbell alert with pushmessage and mail with webcam footage Actually the first 'project' I ever did with a Raspberry Pi was sending a push message to my Iphone. It…
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The Local Weather Station on a Four-Wheels Bluetooth Controlled CarThis is my four-wheels bluetooth controlled car which is equipped a local weather station on it. This four wheels car can be fully functional bluetooth controlled via Blynk that allows…
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Bicycle Journey Tracker With Arduino and GPS ModuleThis is a bicycle journey recording device utilizing Arduino and a GPS module. I’m riding an electrical bicycle from time to time during weekends. Several good bicycle riding routes which…
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THE I.MX RT FAMILY MAKES FOR SOME FEATURE FILLED FEATHERS!Thanks to a host of useful feather wings and shields, the Adafruit Feather form factor is becoming a very popular one with a host of other boards now based on it, offering…
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ETHERSWEEP: AN EASY-TO-DEPLOY ETHERNET CONNECTED STEPPER CONTROLLER[Neumi] over on Hackaday.IO wanted a simple-to-use way to drive stepper motors, which could be quickly deployed in a wide variety of applications yet to be determined. The solution is…
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MEET THE STM32 “BLACK PILL” DEVELOPMENT BOARDAfter playing second (maybe third?) fiddle for a while to a range of maker-friendly boards from Arduino and others, STMicro finally got it right with the STM32F103C8T6 Arm Cortex-M3 microcontroller-based “BluePill” development board which…
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Top 10 Best Simulators for ArduinoIn this post I will discuss about Top 10 Best Simulators for Arduino. The most popular software for simulating the circuits and embedded systems based on the Arduino microcontroller development…
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The Arduino Internet GizmoThe Arduino Internet Gizmo is a USB, Arduino, and RFID device for web surfing. The gizmo works by placing an RFID tag on the top of the gizmo. The gizmo…
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Rainbow Knotted LED Snow GlobeMy purpose for this project was to take a knot and "show" its construction by tracing its path. It was only through happenstance that I discovered my chosen medium (2…
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Raspberry Pi Drives Tiny CNC Drawing MachineMaker and developer Pheux9558, as they’re known on Reddit, has developed a custom CNC drawing machine from scratch using a Raspberry Pi. This tiny CNC machine(opens in new tab) is much smaller than…
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YOUR MICROPYTHON BOARD CAN BE YOUR TINKERING PERIPHERAL[Brian Pugh] has shared a cool new project that simultaneously runs on desktop Python and MicroPython – the Belay library. This library lets you control a MicroPython device seamlessly from your Python…
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Adding Wi-Fi to a 35-Year-Old Printer for Making ASCII ArtIn a continuation of Clem Mayer's previous project, he's now adding Wi-Fi connectivity for starting prints wirelessly from anywhere. Outdated technology The advent of USB and Wi-Fi-enabled printers is still…
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Arduino Maker Nano RP2040 $8 board reviewedIf you would like to learn more about the new Arduino Maker Nano RP2040 will be pleased to know that a review has been published to the official Raspberry Pi…
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ONE SHOT IR HELPER IS A GREAT BEGINNER PROJECTSometimes you need a little utility device to do a very simple job, and do it well.This one-shot IR helper from [Gregory Sanders] is just that. [Gregory] had a TV that…
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BANGLE.JS: THE HACKABLE SMART WATCHWhile Python currently sits atop the throne of the most popular programming language in the world, languages like javascript have been creeping around the throne with different frameworks and APIs that have taken the…
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Save 20% on this DIY robot dog to keep the kids busy this summerIf you want your kids to get off of their tablets and phones this summer, you need something exciting to spark their interest. And what’s cooler than a robot dog…
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HIGH-PERFORMANCE FPGA MODULES WITH SUPERSPEED USB 3.0 INTERFACESThe capabilities of sensors and sensing systems have grown considerably in recent years, making data acquisition (DAQ) systems increasingly complex as the amount of data flowing and the processing required…
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The tweiger counterThe following steps will enable you to build your own tweiger-counter! It searches in current twitter messages sent around the globe for the words like nuclear, calculates a sliding window…
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Develop your IoT and robotics skills with this training bundle dealAs the internet of things evolves, understanding it is key to both better security and more efficient use. The 2022 Complete Raspberry Pi & Arduino Developer Bundle features nine courses to hone your open-source…
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DEPTHAI – AN EMBEDDED PLATFORM FOR COMBINING DEPTH AND AI, BUILT AROUND MYRIAD XDepthAI is a platform built around the Myriad X to combine depth perception, object detection (neural inference), and object tracking that gives you this power in a simple, easy-to-use Python…
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A SLEEP MONITOR FOR MINIMUM OUTLAYThere are a variety of instruments used in sleep studies to measure bodily activity during sleep and consequent sleep quality. Many of them use techniques that perhaps aren’t so easy…
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An Arduino RSS Feed DisplayThis Arduino project will display RSS feed headlines on an LCD via an Arduino and a USB cable. It works quite well, and lets you keep up with the world…
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LED HEART KEEPS TABS ON YOUR RUNESCAPE CHARACTERThe MMORPG RuneScape holds a special place in the hearts of those who played it in the early 2000s. Sure it might seem exceptionally quaint by modern standards, but at the time…
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IoTFi Internet of Things IoT development boardDevelopers, makers and electronic hobbyists interested in creating applications and projects for the Internet of Things (IoT) may be interested in a new IoT development board named IoTFi. Created by…
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OLED Watch Is Alive!So it's been a while since I last posted about my OLED watch, and I've done a lot of work on it! (And also broke it multiple times) It's taken…
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Arduino Esplora PongWant to play Pong on your computer with your Esplora? This example shows you how. This example is designed to be used with a Processing sketch. Processing is an open…
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The InkPlate 10 e-paper display now available worldwide via Crowd SupplyThe InkPlate 10 comes across as a large e-paper display measuring 9.7-inches. The display module supports Wi-Fi connection and can be programmed using Arduino and MicroPython. It is a favorite…
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DIY Programming Cable Using Arduino Uno – Baofeng UV-9R PlusHey Everyone, this is a simple guide on how to convert your Baofeng UV-9R (or plus) Headphone / ear piece cable into a programming cable using an Ardunio UNO as…
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The BookMinder: a Bookend Meeting Countdown DeviceSince more and more of us are working from home, we are all increasing our engagement with our screens (looking at you, Zoom meetings). For myself, when I am taking…
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Think-a-Tron MiniThis Instructable is a standalone follow on to my recent Think-a-Tron 2020 project. You can see a picture of my Think-a-Tron "family" including the original, 2020, and Mini versions above.…
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Easy Zoom Quit ButtonThis Zoom emergency quit button lets you exit out of your meeting in an instant. It is simple to make and requires very little electronics experience. I built this because…
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Visual Network Threat Level Indicator v2 using ArduinoBy popular request this is a new wireless version of the Visual Network Threat Level Indicator. This uses a Roving Networks WiFly RN-XV Module to do 802.11 WiFi along with an Arduino…
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PiTFT Weather StationMore tinkering with the wonderful Adafruit 2.8″ Touchscreen TFT module (PiTFT) for the Raspberry Pi. This time a weather station drawing data from weather.com. Luckily there’s a wonderful python module…
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M5Paper Weather StationI have one M5Paper which is equipped an ePaper touch screen 540 x 960 pixels, temperature and humidity sensor, real-time clock, microSD, 03 x HY2.0-4P ports. It can connect to WIFI, bluetooth,…
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GLASGOW INTERFACE EXPLORER FOR EXPLORING DIGITAL INTERFACESA highly capable and extremely flexible open source multitool for digital electronics. Explore digital interfaces on ease. What is Glasgow Interface Explorer? Glasgow is a tool for exploring digital interfaces.…
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Mechanical 7 Segment Display V2Hello and welcome back to another Instructable. In the previous two Instructables, I have shown you how I created PCB coils in Kicad using a Python script, covered the basics…
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Visual Network Threat Level Indicator using ArduinoNetwork monitoring is very important in todays world. The internet is a scary place. People have taken steps to raise their awareness by installing Intrusion Detection Systems(IDS) such as SNORT.…
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LOW-COST, TWO-CHANNEL SCRIPTABLE WAVEFORM GENERATORMicrocontroller addict [Debraj] decided to make his own programmable sine wave generator, and was able to put it together for under $40 USD. Other than low-cost, his list of requirements…
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MICROSOFT AI DEVELOPER KIT RUNS LINUX ON QUALCOMM SOCMicrosoft has announced a $249 “Vision AI Developer Kit, aimed at AI edge developers using Azure IoT Edge and Azure Machine Learning. The kit features an 8MP, 4K camera which runs Linux on Qualcomm’s 10nm, AI-enabled QCS603 SoC.…
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DIY ANALOG RESOURCE MONITOR FOR YOUR PCSasa Karanovic build an analog monitoring system that is able to show your computer’s resources on 4x beautiful dials. He writes: In the video above, you can see first a power…
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Many Arduino ProjectsLet's Make It Inaugural Episode - Let's Make It - Episode 1 This is our very first episode of Let's Make It. In this episode we introduce ourselves and talk…
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PhidgetSBC3 based solar-powered weather stationThe project described here is a simple weather station that measures air temperature, humidity, and surface temperature of the ground below the weather station. Practical concepts covered are: Powering your…
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Get started in robotics and microcontrollers with this bundlelatforms are both useful to know at a professional level, and simply fun to engineer and code. The 2022 Complete Raspberry Pi & Arduino Developer Bundle helps everyone from coding experts to…
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Arduino GPS GSM AnyTracerTrack and Trace anything with the Arduino AnyTracer of only 25 x 25 mm! It is the smallest, complete GPS GSM tracker in the entire world. The DIY GPS tracker!…
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Arduino Timing Belt Calculator (console)This command-line Python script is a utility to help calculate parameters for timing belt drive systems. A more general discussion of designing with timing belts can be found on the Timing…
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MIDI-to-MQTT Bridge (console)This command-line Python script transmits MQTT messages based on events from a MIDI input device such as the Akai MPD218 Drum Pad Controller. This can be used as a platform for…
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Arduino Performance Utility ToolsSome of the exercise packages include several utility and test programs. These are all standalone scripts using Python 3 and a few additional packages as described in Python 3 Installation. The…
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Arduino MQTT Plotter (PyQt5)This utility GUI application is a tool for visualizing the content of multiple data streams passed as short numeric messages back and forth across the network via a MQTT server.…
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Arduino MQTT Monitor (PyQt5)This utility GUI application is a tool for debugging programs using a remote MQTT server. It can show messages on multiple topics and publish text-based messages on a single topic.…
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Arduino-MQTT Bridge (PyQt5)This GUI application connects an Arduino sketch to a remote MQTT server over the network. It communicates with the Arduino using the serial port, relaying lines of text to and from the…
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Arduino Sketch Classifier DemoN.B. this is new and still being tested. This sketch demonstrates an example of ultrasonic range sensor data processing using a combination of signal filters and a classification tree. The…
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Arduino Sketch FilterDemosN.B. this is new and still being tested. This sketch demonstrates several examples of single-channel filters for processing sensor data. The filter functions are purely numeric operations and not dependent…
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Arduino Sketch Remote User InterfaceThis sketch demonstrates Internet-based remote communication using a companion ‘bridge’ program running on the attached host which sends and receives messages via an online MQTT server. This allows connecting one…
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Arduino Sketch RemoteStationThis sketch demonstrates Internet-based remote communication using a companion ‘bridge’ program running on the attached host which sends and receives messages via an online MQTT server. This allows connecting one…
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The useless but mazing QR-clock using ArduinoI got this idea for a while but I never had the chance to try it out. Friday, a workmate gave me a LCD shield for Arduino and I thought that was…
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REJECT MODERNITY; RETURN TO TAMAGOTCHIBrowsing through the recent projects on Hackaday.io, we’ve found this entry by [NanoCodeBug]: a single-PCB low-power trinket reviving the “pocket pet” concept while having some fun in the process! Some serious thought…
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Arduino Sketch OneInOne Out ASCIIThis sketch is an Arduino program which acts as an simplified hardware I/O server using a simple readable message protocol. The intent is to provide an easily modified and extended…
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SENDING PICS TO GRANDMA, NO SMARTPHONE NEEDEDWhen it comes to keeping in touch with the grandparents, a lack of familiarity with modern technology can get in the way. [palmerabollo] wanted to share photos with his grandmother,…
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ARDUINO MEETS QUANTUM COMPUTERQuantum computers aren’t quite ready for the home lab, but since there are ways to connect to some over the Internet, you can experiment with them more easily than you…
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Introducing Climaduino – The Arduino-Based Thermostat You Control From Your Phone!Not everyone lives somewhere with central air, or is willing to pay for a Nest or similar "smart" thermostat. The Climaduino is a DIY Arduino-based thermostat designed to control a…
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PSYLINK AN OPEN SOURCE NEURAL INTERFACE FOR NON-INVASIVE EMGWe don’t see many EMG (electromyography) projects, despite how cool the applications can be. This may be because of technical difficulties with seeing the tiny muscular electrical signals amongst the…
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RIVERDI IOT DISPLAYS FOR NEXT LEVEL IOT PROJECTSDesigned and produced with everything an IoT engineer might need, the python-programmable ESP32– powered IoT display by Riverdi is an expandable, cloud-ready GUI with a sleek design, low power consumption and top of…
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Tweet-a-Pot: Twitter Enabled Coffee Pot using ArduinoLike the idea of making coffee on the fly? from your bed? While you're on the bus coming home? Then the Tweet-a-pot is for you! Tweet-a-pot is the next in…
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SAY “HELLO” THE NEW FEATHER-COMPACTIBLE ORANGECRAB BOARDOwing to the trend that is driving the success of the Feather form factor for boards is the change in the methodology and languages in which boards are now being…
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Hack Computer to Make It Smart!Have you ever wondered why smartphones are called smart-phones? Because they are smart, right? They do some works automatically, smartly. That's the short answer. I was thinking something, even if…
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Create an Internet Connected Pill DispenserThe P.I.L. Box - A Better Medication Reminder System Studies show the consequences of patients not taking medications according to doctor's orders can be serious, especially in older patients.With today's…
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AN OPEN SOURCE DETECTOR FOR IDENTIFYING PLASTICSOne of the challenges involved in recycling plastic is determining the specific type of plastic a given item is actually made of. To keep up with demand, large scale recycling centers rely…
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Create KiCAD schematics automatically with Schematic-o-maticElectronics hobbyists, engineers and developers looking for an automatic way to create KiCAD schematics may be interested in your project created by Nick Bild, capable of analyzing your physical breadboard…
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DIGILENT’S ANALOG DISCOVERY 2 PRO BUNDLEStart verifying and testing a wide range of projects with the Analog Discovery 2. With the addition of the BNC adapter and scope probes, professional or experienced engineers can access…
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BRING A MINITEL TERMINAL BACK TO LIFE WITH AN ESP32Most of us who are old enough are likely to have had our first experience of an online service some time in the 1990s, either through the likes of Compuserve…
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3D-PRINTED FAN MOUNT KEEPS SERVER GPU COOL IN DESKTOP CASEMost readers of Hackaday will be well aware of the current shortages of semiconductors and especially GPUs. Whether you’re planning to build a state-of-the art gaming PC, a mining rig…
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Simple Arcade Button Ideas for Your ProjectsOne thing that I've always needed for my projects is a simple form of input and output. At first, it was a simple push button and an led on a…
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Tom the Tortoise ThiefI had 8 small and really old servos, as well as an ESP32 that was soldered onto a copper stripboard. I therefore decided to make a walking quadruped that would…
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Machine Learning With the Arduino: Air Quality Prediction Learning With the Arduino: Air Quality PredictionAir Quality Prediction is a project that balances Arduino development and Machine Learning. I have always found the world of machine learning captivating but was never able to run models…
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DIY Solar Panel Monitoring System – V1.0A few months back, I have installed a small-scale Off-Grid Solar System. I am always very curious to see the performance of my solar PV system, and the good news…
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WORLD’S CHEAPEST AND POSSIBLY WORST IR CAMERADon’t blame us for the title. [CCrome] admits it may well be the cheapest and worst IR camera available. The concept is surprisingly simple. Mount a cheap Harbor Freight non-contact thermometer on…
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Arduino Portenta H7 Lite Connected development board launchedThe official Arduino team have introduced a new development board to their range this week in the form of the Portenta H7 Lite Connected which is now available to purchase priced at…
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USB 10-DIGIT SEVEN SEGMENT DISPLAY MODULEThis project is about an open-source, USB based, 10 digit seven segment display unit. This unit is specifically designed to work with POS systems and banking applications. Initially, this system is developed to work…