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Easily run your ATtiny at 16MHz, without an external clock, from the Arduino IDE

Arduino Programmer Projects, Clock – Timer Project Ideas / By Ibrar Ayyub

Hardware components: Atmel ATTiny85 × 1 SparkFun Tiny AVR Programmer × 1 Software apps and online services: Arduino IDE STORY Introduction The Atmel tinyAVR MCU’s (ATtiny) are a series of chips optimized for applications requiring performance and/or power efficiency in a small package. These have internal clocks that runs at 8 MHz. They can also be clocked

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Sensing Weight With A Flexiforce + Arduino

Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Felxiforce is a force sensor that is very similar to FSRs we just wrote about in principal. They change their resistance when you apply force to them. (The flexi part of the name is because they are flexible) Felxiforces are about twice as expensive as their FSR cousins, but these are much more stable, and

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Touch Sliders With A Softpot + Arduino

Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

You all know the potentiometer, you turn it, and you can read on your arduino where it was turned to. Well 3M makes a product called the softpot that is a linear touch potentiometer. So instead of turning a knob, you touch it. The really nice thing about these is that they are great for

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Can You ID This? ID-20 RFID Reader + Arduino

Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

A few weeks ago we showed you how to control your arduino over serial. Well this week are going to do the same thing. Only this time instead of using the serial monitor to send the commands, we will be using the Innovations ID line RFID reader. RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, is basically a

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Tilt Sensing with the RPI-1031 + Arduino

Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Once in a while something comes out that I think is going to be really awesome, but when you get it, it is just so so. Im sure you all know what I mean… But yeah… This is one of those. The RPI-1031 available from sparkfun is a pretty simple (heck, it is dead simple)

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Line Sensing. QRE1113 Reflectance Sensor + Arduino

Blog / By Ibrar Ayyub

The QRE1113 is a common reflectance sensor often used in robotic line followers. The sensor works by shining an IR LED down and seeing how much of that light bounces back using a phototransistor. Because dark colors will bounce back less of the light, the sensor can be used to tell the difference between white

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One Wire Digital Temperature. DS18B20 + Arduino

Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

I know… you are probably thinking “Another Thermometer! How many do you need to cover?” – Well… All of them. But really, they all have something different to offer. For instance this guy, the DS18B20, has a unique serial-number sent with it’s data, so if you needed to have 50 of these on one bus,

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Proximity Sensing with the VCNL4000 + Arduino

Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

I’m not really sure why, but proximity sensors are some of my favorite things in the sensor world. Maybe because there are so many of them? Who knows. Whatever the reason, the VCNL4000 is another proximity sensor that caught my eye, so I picked one up from Sparkfun on this handy breakout board. The VCNL4000

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Sensing Orientation With The ADXL335 + Arduino

Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

I know, I know, this one has such a simple name. Where’s the pun? Honestly, the description was just to long to include one. Maybe it could have been “What’s Up? Sensing Orientation With The ADXL335 + Arduino” – Ehhh… Probably not. A few weeks ago we wrote a tutorial about using the ADXL345 to

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Long Distance Remote Light Sensor With RFM95W/RFM98W LoRa

Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

There are many wireless communication options when connecting Arduino boards. One of the most popular ones is the Wi-Fi. It works well at small distances, and around Wi-Fi hotspots, however when the modules need to connect over long distance at areas where Internet is not present, Wi-Fi is not an option. Luckily there is a

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