You’ll need these: HC-SR04 – Get this ultrasonic sensor from eBay.com.au for $2. SG90 Servo Motor – We’ve seen this servo selling for around $4 on ebay. Motor drive shield – You can get this expansion board for $5 online. If you’re new to APC we’ve been spending the last few months of this Masterclass […]
Arduino Project 4: Enhancing your mini robot Continue Reading
If you ever wanted to integrate touch sensitivity into your project, this board could just do the trick. It’s a capacitive touch sensor. These sensors are used in our everyday consumer electronics like notebook trackpads, video game consoles, touchscreens…just to name a few. They work on the principle of alteration of the electrostatic field. The
Capacitive Touch Sensor on Arduino Continue Reading
This Lazy Old Geek (L.O.G.) loves Arduinos. I have noticed that a lot of sensors, like GPS, LCDs, magnetometers are 3.3Vdc sensors. But the standard Arduinos, Uno, RBBB are 5Vdc modules. So I decided I’m going to make more of my Arduino projects with 3.3Vdc AtMega328s. Now I’ve done this before but will go through
Do you have a habit of leaving notes on the fridge, now take it digital and add an Arduino to it. In this instructable I’m going to show you how to do just that. All you need is an Arduino, an LCD screen and a Bluetooth module to make this and a Android mobile to
Arduino Fridge Magnet Continue Reading
his is a preliminary instructable that will take you through the steps I took to get the SR04 ULTRASONIC SENSOR connected and working to the Arduino. It will then be incorporated to my mini environment monitor. Eventually, if it all fits, it will end up in a Startrek toy tricorder casing I found in my
Ultrasonic Range detector using Arduino and the SR04 Ultrasonic sensor Continue Reading
OK, this is not a fully autonomous “get you a beer, open it for you and then tweet about it” robodog (yet 😉 but if you’re itching to get past the blinky lights on a breadboard stage with your Arduino and you’re ten or know somebody that’s ten this might appeal to you. This is
Kid-friendly PuppyDuino 0.31 Continue Reading
For an upcoming project I needed a pneumatic ram with a closed loop control system so I could position it accurately. Didn’t have the budget for an off the shelf solution, so I bodged one together with an ardunio, a couple air solenoid valves, and a pair of potentiometers. How it works is one potentiometer
David Bynoe works in progress Continue Reading
An h-bridge is a chip that allows DC motors to be run versatile, with bidirectional capability. With an H-bridge, motors can go forward or backward, left or right, up or down, etc, depending on the use of the motor(s) in the circuit. Without a microcontroller, the only way to be able to control an H-bridge
How to Build an H-bridge Circuit with an Arduino Microcontroller Continue Reading
The other day I wanted to experiment with external triggers for my Canon EOS 550D camera. I stumpled upon a nice open source project called Arduino Camera Control from Oleg Mazurov, the creator of the USB Host Shield library for Arduino. The Arduino Camera Control project depends on the USB Host Shield library and the
Arduino passive IR trigger for Canon EOS Continue Reading
THE SETUP For an interface I thought 3 LEDs would be simple enough: Blue for everything is fine (as blue LEDs are cooler than green ones); red for something is wrong; and yellow for the modem and router are being restarted. I added a button to do the actual restarting as I wanted it to
Internet connection indicator box with restart button Continue Reading
