Author: Steve Spence

Soldering Sheild Headers

From http://www.freetronics.com/pages/soldering-shield-headers Many Arduino shields are shipped with headers packed loose, leaving it up to you to solder them in place. Sounds easy, right? Actually, it’s more fiddly and annoying than it sounds. Arduino headers consist of four separate headers,

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Arduino Robot Goes WiFi

From http://www.embedds.com/arduino-robot-goes-wifi/ Arduino is very rich in its shields so there is another fast and great project – WiFi controlled Arduino robot. The platform is pretty simple – mainly made of wood. Interesting part is that Arduino is equipped with

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WaterValveShield controls your garden spigot

First Ray built a minty water valve controller that gave him control over a garden water supply, then he turned it into a shield. For the water valve, I picked the Orbit yard watering valve. It’s widely available in home

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Black on Orange LCD Display

We received our Black on Orange 2 line 40 character LCD display from http://www.ge-th.com/, and are soldering pin headers on it so we can mate it to our breadboard. This unit is the display module for our HVAC Controller /

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Solar panel monitor / logger

Hackaday has a cool post on Ladyada’s video on solar charge control analysis. http://hackaday.com/2010/08/07/solar-panel-charger-analysis-with-ladyada/ The unit itself is built around an Arduino and can log the statistics to an SD card, show battery voltage, panel voltage, and current from panel

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Remember Pong?

Here is a nice Arduino implementation of the old video game pong from the 70’s! Become the Maker you were born to be. Try Arduino Academy for FREE!   More info:

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