By Avatar-X If you’ve ever looked into automating the temperature control in your home, you will quickly have found out that it’s not a cheap prospect. The cheapest network-connected thermostat I could find was $450 US, and that’s just a
I received my clickbank deposit today, so I paid the rent and car insurance, and decided to pamper myself a little bit. I ordered a add-on pack of components for my Arduino. A nice selection of resistors, capacitors, transistors, motors,
When connecting an Arduino to an Ethernet network it can be really annoying that you need to run two cables to it: one for the LAN, one for power. It’s particularly annoying if you’re going to be putting the Arduino
One of the things I wanted to play with was powering my Arduino with solar. I found a solar charger shield for about $10 that only requires a Li-ion (NiMH would also work) battery and a 5v PV cell. It
A thermal differential controller is what is used to control the pump between the solar panel and hot water tank. It senses when the solar panel is hotter than the tank and starts up the pump so that the water
The first thing I did when I got my Arduino Duemilanove from Hacktronics was of course open the box. Inside was the Arduino, a solderless breadboard, five 270 ohm resistors, six LED’s in assorted colors, a micro pushbutton switch, an
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