Control the Arduino with IR TV Remote

Use a TV remote to tell your Arduino to do various things, like turn lights on/off, lock doors, close blinds, and more. Become the Maker you were born to be. Try Arduino Academy for FREE!   Article Background Info

Read More »

Wordle – Arduino Blog Art

The Arduino was designed for artists and architects originally, so here is our nod to Art. Wordle takes our blog feed, and converts it to this representation, based on the popularity of keywords. Make your own Wordle maps at http://www.wordle.net

Read More »

Easy storage of your components

Want a inexpensive and easy method to store your variety of resistors, capacitors, transistors, LED’s and more? Get a three ring binder, and some of these zippered inserts to store your components. Ziplock baggies can subdivide the various devices further

Read More »

Arduino Temp / Humidity Update!

Tonight I added a RGB LED to the project. The LED turns red when the temp drops too cool (to indicate that the furnace has turned on), and blue when it gets too hot (to indicate the A/C has turned

Read More »

Our Temperature / Humidity Monitor is working!

We received our SHT21 Temperature / Humidity Sensor today from Misenso. No documentation came with it, so a bit of googling found parts of the necessary info on 3 different sites (spliced a few bits of code, installed the I2C

Read More »

Data logging with the Arduino

Our solar and wind power monitor needs the ability to save historical data so that we can track watt hours and amp hours daily and weekly. A SD card provides enough capacity, and allows us to easily download the data

Read More »

Archives