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Make an Arduino Temperature Sensor (Thermistor Tutorial)

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

The DHT11 humidity and temperature sensor makes it really easy to add humidity and temperature data to your DIY electronics projects. It’s perfect for remote weather stations, home environmental control systems, and farm or garden monitoring systems. In this tutorial, I’ll first go into a little background about humidity, then I’ll explain how the DHT11 measures humidity. After that, […]

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How to Set Up and Program an LCD Display on an Arduino

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to set up an LCD on an Arduino and show you all the different ways you can program it. I’ll show you how to print text, scroll text, make custom characters, blink text, and position text. They’re great for any project that outputs data, and they can make your project a lot more

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Make Your Own Power Meter/Logger

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

In this project I will show you how I combined an Arduino, an INA219 power monitor IC, an OLED LCD and a Micro SD Card PCB in order to create a power meter/logger that has more functions than the popular USB Power Meter. Let’s get started! Step 1: Watch the Video! The video gives you

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Arduino Touch Screen Music Player and Alarm Clock Project

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

In this project I will show you how you can make an Arduino Touch Screen MP3 Music Player and Alarm Clock. You can watch the following video or read the written tutorial below. If we enter the Music Player we can start playing the music by pressing the big “Play” button in the middle of

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Arduino Remote Control Tutorial

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

In this tutorial I am going to show you exactly how to make an Arduino remote control. You can use this project to combine functions from different remote controls and make your super-awesome dream remote control! If you are not familiar with Arduino, check out What is Arduino and where to start? A remote control

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ESP8266 Standalone WiFI Relay Control

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

AIM To control a relay switch using esp8266 in standalone mode(without arduino,pic or any other Micro-controller) via Web-UI The ESP broadcasts its own SSID.It does not connect to a router.local IP address of esp is 192.168.4.1 Step 1: Gather Hardware ESP 8266 (There are a lot of variants available in the market.for this tutorial lets

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Teardown: Amazon Dash Button keeps you connected

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Amazon’s Dash Button, which I previously mentioned back in late May 2015, is the ultimate in consumer convenience (or, if you prefer, consumerism gone crazy). Simply press a button on the inconspicuous adhesive-backed device (perfect for attaching to your washer and dryer, refrigerator, counter, or cabinet), and your Amazon account is charged for the purchase

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Reverse engineering the popular 555 timer chip (CMOS version)

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Reverse engineering the popular 555 timer chip (CMOS version) This article explains how the LMC555 timer chip works, from the tiny transistors and resistors on the silicon chip, to the functional units such as comparators and current mirrors that make it work. The popular 555 timer integrated circuit is said to be the world’s best-selling

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Reverse engineering the popular 555 timer chip

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

This article explains how the LMC555 timer chip works, from the tiny transistors and resistors on the silicon chip, to the functional units such as comparators and current mirrors that make it work. The popular 555 timer integrated circuit is said to be the world’s best-selling integrated circuit with billions sold since it was designed

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555 Timer Teardown

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

If you’ve played around with electronic circuits, you probably know[1] the 555 timer integrated circuit, said to be the world’s best-selling integrated circuit with billions sold. Designed by analog IC wizard Hans Camenzind[2] in 1970, the 555 has been called one of the greatest chips of all time with whole books devoted to 555 timer

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