About: Ibrar Ayyub

Like me, you may have a few old Arduino boards or ATmega8 chips (in the boards) laying around from when you were first playing with Arduino. Those chips can still be really useful as the heart of a tiny “Minimal Arduino” setup. A normal Arduino board contains support components that make it easy to use. […]

We have a great Dutch Holiday tradition called sinterklaas (5th of december, this is what the US Santa is based on). For the older “non-believers” we make surprises. The purpose is to buy a small present but make a really cool “surprise” around it. Here my arduino based Split-flap game I made as surprise. I […]

Microsemi has announced a family of DSP chips. Called Timberwolf, it is described as a third-generation DSP architecture designed with a proprietary 4 MAC core, dedicated hardware accelerators, and two independent 16bit DACs in 64pin QFN and 56pin 3×3 CSP packages. “This field upgradable DSP platform, when combined with algorithmic firmware, can enable beam forming, […]

The OPT3001 is a sensor that measures the intensity of visible light. The spectral response of the sensor tightly matches the photopic response of the human eye and includes significant infrared rejection. The OPT3001 is a single-chip lux meter, measuring the intensity of light as visible by the human eye. The precision spectral response and […]

Been seeing few DIYs on how to establish a communication between MATLAB application and Arduino that is hardwired to PC. However, I haven’t encountered anything that control Arduino via MATLAB wirelessly using the ENC28J60 compatible Ethernet shield. In this ible’, I’m going to show the simplest way to control Arduino using MATLAB wirelessly. WHAT YOU […]

In this tutorial learn how to make your own backlit-LCD Arduino shield. Let’s see how simple it is to make your own Arduino LCD shield. Sure – you can just buy one, but where’s the fun in that? Getting Started Our LCD is a two line, sixteen character backlit LCD. It has a typical HD44780-compatible […]

Silicon Labs introduced a new family of high-precision temperature sensors offering industry-leading power efficiency. Silicon Labs’ ultra-low-power Si705x temperature sensors consume only 195 nA (typical average current) when sampled once per second, which minimizes self-heating and enables multi-year coin cell battery operation. Unlike traditional digital temperature sensors, the Si705x devices maintain their accuracy across the […]

This a Knight Rider Style LED Chaser Done with a Arduino Duemilanove with an ATmega328 chip. Step 1: Things you’l need: 6 LEDs (any color) 1 Breadboard 1 100 Ohm Resistor 12 Breadboard Jumpers 1 Arduino Duemilanove “or” Decimila 1 USB cable with A-type connector on one end, and B-type on the other. (See photos) […]

High-power LEDs over 1W are now quite inexpensive. I’m sure many of you are incorporating LEDs as light sources in your projects. However I realize that the finding and configuring the power supply is still not as simple as it can be; commercially available LED drivers are convenient, but often overkill or not flexible. Even […]

Introduction You’ve started modifying sketches, and played a bit with the onboard LED (or if you have an NG, an LED you added). The next step is to start adding onto the hardware component of the Arduino. We will do this by adding a solderless breadboard to our setup, connecting up new parts with wire. Say […]