Author: Steve Spence

Image Recognition & Path Tracking

Ever wanted to do image recognition, and path tracking? You don’t need expensive processor power or complicated programming. The Pixy recognizes color patterns, and can process 50 frames per second. It tells the Arduino what object it’s tracking, and the

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Screw Terminal Blocks, Great for any project!

I’m always trying to scrounge screw terminal blocks for various projects, and finally found my favorites. I use them on my prototype and permanent projects where temporarily sticking a sensor wire into a header is no longer appropriate. These are

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Arduino UNO & LCD Shield Raffle

Congratulations to our winner, Anthony from Ohio! In order to fund our next project, a keyboard based morse code encoder / decoder, we are raffling off a Arduino UNO with a LCD Keypad shield. The UNO comes programmed with a

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SainSmart I2C LCD

It seems a lot of folks are having problems getting the SainSmart I2C LCD working. This is a shame, as the I2C LCD only uses 2 data lines, A4 (SDA) & A5 (SCL), on the UNO, or 20 (SDA) &

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ELEC Freaks LCD Key Shield

I’m playing with the ELEC Freaks LCD Key Shield, and this is a simple and fun to use Arduino Shield that contains a 2 line LCD, a rotary encoder,  a joystick, plus headers of unused pins for additional sensors. First,

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Arduino & uBlox Neo 6M GPS

A buddy of mine sent me a Neo 6M GPS module and said “figure it out”. Cool, I love projects like this. Also see our Raspberry Pi version! There are 4 connections, TX, RX, VCC and Gnd. I connected TX

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