About: Ibrar Ayyub

This post starts a small (or larger?) series of tutorials using the Arduino Motor/Stepper/Servo Shield with the FRDM-KL25Z board. That motor shield is probably one of the most versatile on the market, and features 2 servo and 4 motor connectors for DC or stepper motors. That makes it a great shield for any robotic project […]

I have a device which provides a USB port. If I attach it to a Windows PC it is recognized as a “CP2103 USB to UART Bridge Controller”. According to the device documentation, it should communicate in serial format at 38400bps.I have to talk to this device with a atmega microcontroller. Since the USB pinout […]

The last few weeks I was playing with Firebase mostly because I wanted to get familiar with this technology. So at some point I thought that it will be a great idea to connect Arduino with Firebase. Imagine that you have a simple temperature sensor that measures the boiler’s water temperature every few minutes and […]

I’ve been reading a lot about receivers, and it sounds like one important thing is filtering. It makes sense too – simple receivers can suffer from front end overload due to a strong signal.  And when on the ham bands, you never know where that strong signal may be – it could be someone driving […]

Windows 10 + Android 5.1 9.7 inch IPS Retina Screen Intel Cherry Trail Z8300 64bit Quad Core 1.44GHz 4GB RAM 64GB ROM Cameras Bluetooth 4.0 A portable system which you would love for your embedded system development Main Features of Teclast X98 Plus 3G Tablet PC: CPU: Intel Cherry Trail Z8300 (Intel Atom X5-Z8300) 64bit […]

Introduction In my first article using the Arduino 2009 board, I described a simple temperature sensor interfaced using Visual Basic. I have developed the board and Visual Basic code to give a fairly usable indoor weather station. Overall Operation The Arduino 2009 acts as a standalone weather station. It does not display the data. It […]

At University, Alexander Zenger and I decided to realize a weatherstation with an Arduino Microcontroller. We wanted to measure temperature, pressure and humidity. It should be also possible to get every 5 min a value update on an external server. Our basic idea was to develop a weatherstation which is easy to use with different […]

Since this book was written, Arduino 1.0 was released and Google has changed the Open Accessory standard a lot. At the start of December 2011 Arduino 1.0 was released. This changed a few things, requiring all third-party libraries to be updated. This hasn’t happened yet for the Android Open Accessory ADK. So until this is […]

The Team Kaitlin Schaer as scribe; Bryan Gardiner as tutor; Ruben Markowitz as designer; Anna Failla as integrator Introduction In a time where the logistics of sleep can be all too much to handle, there is a solution! There is a smarter pillow, a pillow that will wake you up just when you need to get […]

In all my arduino projects I was using cheap 1602 LCDs mostly because… they are cheap but also of the libraries flexibility.  Recently I found a nice TFT 1.8 inch 128×160 in a very competitive price and i thought to give it a go.  Just $4.5. I had a little bit of trouble to make […]