Motivation What to do you do when you have some Bare Conductive paint and some Philips Hue lightbulbs laying around? You paint a dimmer switch on your wall using conductive paint! Getting Started Some things you’ll need to get started: Arduino Due (or Zero) AnduinoWiFi shield (or another WiFi101 enabled Arduino) Bare Conductive Touch Board […]
Story The Nokia 5110 is a basic graphic LCD screen for lots of applications. It was originally intended to be used as a cell phone screen. This one is mounted on an easy to solder PCB. It uses the PCD8544 controller, which is the same used in the Nokia 3310 LCD. The PCD8544 is a […]
Hi everyone! This is my next project, Fidget Spinner RPM Counter or Arduino Tachometer with Hall-Effect Sensor. 1: Requirements Parts Required: Fidget Spinner neodyimium magnet Arduino Uno LED + resistor 220 Ohm Hall-Effect Sensor – a3144 resistor 10 k Wires Breadboard LCD 1602 2: Hall-Effect Sensor Using Hall-Effect Sensor we can measure the speed of […]
This device improves plant irrigation in urban environments. Powered by an Arduino 101, it uses on-board tools along with a few external sensors to calculate optimum conditions for watering plants in its own environment, and then waters the plant itself at the calculated time. It is based on the following concepts: Gravity and Pressure This […]
Now that the cheesy title has pulled you (Fitflix was taken and I didn’t want to be sued) I’ll tell you about the project, it uses a stationary exercise bike connected to an Arduino Nano to control the streaming of Netflix on a PC, I started this project hoping I could get it working on […]
So I’m guessing that I’m like a large amount of people on this site that are low key hoarders, keeping anything they could turn into a project or salvage for parts and this is an example of that. I have this old Mad Catz Steering wheel for the Xbox 360 and now that I have […]
So back when I first started working with micro controllers, Arduinos mainly the most annoying this ever was when i would follow someones tutorial for a project and they would use the Arduino uno, I would be using the Arduino micro or something, i would spend like an hour wiring it up following the instructions […]
Story When you measure distance between two point general way is to use a ruler. But you can use a lot of other ways: by laser, map, foot or walking meter. The walking meter is very useful when you are measuring curved (not straight) distance. But it might be very tired because you should walk […]
Story When it comes to portable electronics, one of the most important features is how to maximize the battery life. The ATmega328P, used on popular boards like the SparkFun RedBoard, Arduino Uno, and Pro Mini are actually quite power hungry. The RedBoard and Arduino Uno, draw around 15mA minimum, which doesn’t sound like much but […]
Story I have been working out ways to make a minimal Arduino to fit in the smallest space possible, and limit the power consumption of the microcontroller. (You can go through this project for more info about reducing power consumption at: Reducing Arduino Power Consumption). You can assume this one is an extended version of […]
