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RGB LED matrix clock with IR control
Sam Miller and Craig Andres designed a wall-mounted RGB LED matrix clock as their final project for the ECE 4760 course on Designing with Microcontrollers at Cornell. The clock consists of a 32×32 RGB...
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Dual USB-to-UART/I2C interface board
Jesus Echavarria‘s new project is a dual USB-to-UART/I2C serial interface board using two MCP2221 chips. This board can be used for debugging UART TX and RX lines as well as providing an USB...
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Starling: A wifi enabled LED matrix display
Explore Embedded, a Banglore, India based startup has introduced a modular and wifi enabled LED matrix display named Starling, that can not only showcase text messages but also notifications from...
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Wifi controlled thermostat
This Instructable describes how to build a wifi controlled thermostat that can be programmed over the internet as well as locally through a touchscreen TFT LCD display. Wifi controlled thermostat The...
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2016 Hackaday Prize is here
The 2016 Hackaday Prize has been announced today and its time to leverage your hardware skills and creativity to build something awesome that could change people’s lives and win one of 105 cash prizes...
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STM32’s internal RTC
A Real Time Clock (RTC) is a timing element dedicated for keeping time. In many applications, especially where precise timed-operations are needed to be performed, a RTC is a very useful tool. Examples...
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ESP8266 based Weather Station with a beautiful look
Dennisv15‘s Weather Station is WiFi enabled using ESP8266 and uses a 2.4″ OLED to display the weather data. It has got one of the most beautiful enclosure made of Acryllic sheet laser-cut in the shape...
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Wireless communication between two Arduinos using inexpensive RF modules
This article explores an easy wireless communication setup between two Arduinos using low-cost ASK RF transmitter and receiver modules that are readily available in the market. They are found in...
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New product: ASK RF transmitter and receiver kit
Today, we have added a new product to our Tindie store. It is a complete set of ASK RF transmitter and receiver modules for enabling wireless data transfer between two Arduinos. The kit consists of...
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ATtiny keychain game console
This tiny keychain game console is pretty neat and is based on ATtiny85 and and a SSD1306-driven OLED screen. The author has also shared the code for the UFO Escape game for this console. ATTiny85 game...
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Arduino wireless joystick
taifur has posted great instructions about how he built an Arduino powered wireless joystick that can be used as a console for playing PC games. His design features a joystick module and 5 buttons,...
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16-channel wifi remote using ESP8266
Hari Wiguna has shared on Hackaday.io this interesting scheme of making a 16-channel Wifi remote using ESP8266 and PCF8574 I/O expander chips. PCF8574 device provides an 8-bit I/O expansion for any...
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New product: 16×32 RGB LED panel + Arduino Uno connector shield
Today, we have added a new and colorful product to our Tindie store. It is a colorful RGB LED matrix panel kit that includes a 16×32 RGB panel, a RGB connector shield for Arduino Uno, a 2×8 IDC cable,...
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Hookup guide for 16×32 RGB LED panel – Part 1
RGB LED panels are a great way of displaying colorful texts, images, and animation. In this 3-part tutorial, I am going to demonstrate how to hookup our 16×32 RGB LED panel kit to an Arduino Uno board...
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Hookup guide for 16×32 RGB LED panel – Part 2
This is the second part of the 3-part article on how to hookup our 16×32 RGB LED panel kit to Arduino Uno. Click here to read the first part Step 3: Connecting the LED panel to the RGB connector shield...
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Hookup guide for 16×32 RGB LED panel – Part 3
In this third part of the 16×32 RGB LED panel hookup guide, we will run some demo sketches with Arduino Uno to display basic text and animation on the 16×32 RGB LED matrix. These demo programs use...
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Development board for PIC16F1938
The PIC16F1938 is a versatile 28-pin MCU belonging to Microchip’s extreme low power microcontroller family featuring nanoWatt XLP technology, 28KB of programming memory, 1KB of RAM, 11 ADC channels,...
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EasyEDA: A free cloud-based tool for schematic capture, PCB layout, and...
I have been using Eagle CAD for many years now and it’s still my favorite tool for circuit layout and PCB designing. Eagle has been around for more than two-and-a-half decade, and during this time it...
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Si4844 and Arduino make a full-featured AM/FM/SW radio
Raymond Genovese from All About Circuits has shared his idea of making a full-featured AM/FM/SW radio using SiLab’s Si4844-A10 radio chip, which is the first analog-tuned digital-display digital CMOS...
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Microchip Announces a new Graphical User Interface Composer Tool
Microchip announces MPLAB Harmony Graphics Composer, a free development tool for engineers to easily develop and design professional graphical user interfaces. Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP),...
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