Arduino-powered drink mixer
Tired of hand-mixing ingredients for your favorite cocktail drink? This Arduino-powered automatic drink mixer can get your favorite 6-shooter recipe ready with a push of a button. You need to select...
View ArticleESP8266 weather forecaster with a beautiful enclosure (3D printed)
Nick Koumaris from educ8s.tv has posted a new project of building a ESP8266-based weather forecast display using Wemos D1 mini board and a 1.8” Color TFT screen. Nick also shares the design files for...
View ArticleTalking multimeter using PIC32 microcontroller
Rachel Dipirro and Jonathan Lo (students of Cornell) built a talking multimeter as their final project for the 2016 Fall ECE 4760 (“Designing with Microcontrollers”) course. Their talking multimeter is...
View ArticlePortable Smart Projector using Raspberry Pi Zero
Like smart TVs, smart projectors also features built-in Wifi connectivity and support media streaming from services like Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Amazon, and so on. A recent video from NovaSpirit...
View ArticleMotion control camera robot for creating moving time-lapses
Motion-controlled autonomous camera robots are great for capturing moving time-lapse. Sacheth, Ope, and Jason (three ECE students at Cornell) built an iPhone controlled moving robot with a mounted...
View ArticleComfort thermometer with remote sensors housed in an Ikea Ribba frame
Building a thermometer is a very popular project among beginner hobbyists. This comfort thermometer display built with 517 LEDs and four microcontrollers is a beautiful piece of art work with a very...
View ArticleAutomatic pothole reporter
Potholes are one of the most common paving problems. They can not only damage vehicles but are also considered a serious road hazard. mchampio has posted an Instructables about building a NodeMCU based...
View ArticleSmart IoT alarm clock using Pi Zero
Here is a very comprehensive Instructable from fgebhart about building a smart IoT alarm clock using Pi Zero that has some really nice features such as text-to-speech synthesizer, multiple wake-up...
View ArticleHow to send email and text messages using ESP8266
Earlier we looked at a method of programming ESP8266 to send sensor data directly to Google Sheets without using any third party modules. Now, we will expand that a little bit and learn to send an...
View ArticleESP8266 airplane spotter
Daniel Eichhorn recently upgraded his original text version of Plane Spotter project with a colorful TFT screen displaying a map along with airplanes on it. The project requires an the ESP8266 Wifi...
View ArticleEasyESP-1: A rapid prototyping and development board for ESP8266
EasyESP-1 is a rapid prototyping development board for the low-cost, WiFi-enabled ESP8266 microcontroller. With an onboard USB-to-Serial converter pre-installed, EasyESP-1 does not require any...
View ArticlePortable RPi game emulator
This Portaberry RPi game emulator is a Raspberry Pi powered portable gaming console running the Retropie operating system. It allows you to play an extremely wide range of classic video games from the...
View ArticleESP8266 garage door opener and data logger
This ESP8266 controlled garage door opener activates the garage switch via commands send over an web browser. In addition, it also records the activities to a Google Sheet using the IFTTT.com services....
View ArticleManaging a menu driven user interface on a Nokia 5110 LCD
An interactive menu driven LCD user interface (UI) is really useful in embedded applications that require setting up parameters for operation. This YouTube tutorial demonstrates how to manage a simple...
View ArticleTutorial 1: Setting up the Arduino IDE for EasyESP-1
One of the simplest way to program the ESP8266 chip on board EasyESP-1 is using the Arduino IDE. Following steps describe how to enable the ESP8266 support in the Arduino environment. Step 1 : Install...
View ArticleTutorial 2: EasyESP-1 “Hello World” Example
After setting up the Arduino IDE to enable support for ESP8266, it’s time to write your first code for EasyESP-1 board. We will start with the classic hello world! example of electronics, a flashing...
View ArticleA very basic object detection and alarm system using Arduino
Dejan Nedelkovski from HowToMechatronics illustrates the use of HC-SR04 ultrasonic distance sensor in object detection, and its application for making a very basic password-protected Arduino-based...
View ArticleZeroPhone: A Pi-powered DIY mobile phone
We have seen Arduino-powered cellphones before. Arsenijs introduces ZeroPhone– a Raspberry Pi Zero powered DIY mobile phone that costs less than $50 in parts. It is mostly open-source and...
View ArticleArduino powered vending machine
An Arduino-powered soda locker project posted by Mistablik on Instructables can easily fit into his locker and can supply two different kinds of pop. It features a coin acceptor that allows you to use...
View ArticleAnalog thermometer
A new project tutorial from educ8s.tv is about making an Arduino based analog thermometer that uses an analog voltage panel meter for displaying temperature. Analog thermometer Today we are going to...
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