Every once in a while, a item comes along that shakes up the normal flow of information or product development. Well, it’s happened again. This time, it’s a book. Ah, but not any book, it’s another Arduino book. “But there
Here is the 37 sensor pack we are picking up this weekend. Not all devices in this pack are sensors, some are indicators of various types, like LED’s and Buzzers. Modules include vibration sensors, reed switches, hall effect sensors, IR,
The folks at RS Components asked me to post this public service infographic, regarding safe design techniques. Good info when building things that have the ability to burn or main. Become the Maker you were born to be. Try Arduino
I now have a DHT-22 Temperature and humidity module matched up with the SainSmart 1.8 TFT LCD. The tricky part of this project was converting floats to strings for the display. If you don’t need decimal point precision, you may
The SainSmart 1.8 SPI LCD module is a great little display. It uses 5 I/O pins (4 if using the Arduino Reset). It displays clear graphics and text, and has a microsd slot on the back. I connected the display as
I received a box of goodies in UPS this week from SainSmart. I’ll be introducing each item I recieved, working up an example, and then mixing them up into fun and interesting projects. The first item I’d like to introduce