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Arduino Pocket Tetris
A portable pocket Tetris project using ATTiny85 and SSD1306 based OLED screen by dombeef. Pocket Tetris project This project originally was meant as a fathers day gift for my tetris-loving father, and...
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DIY PICKit 3 programmer/debugger
Here’s a detail description from Reviahh on a DIY version of the PICKit 3 programmer/debugger. It uses all SMT components and is portable in size. DIY PICKit 3 This schematic is very similar to the one...
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An old radio turned into RPi powered internet radio
Marcel describes in this Instructable how he gave a new life to his old radio by powering it with an Raspberry Pi that streams various radio channels over the internet. He kept the functionality of the...
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Arduino midi controller
An Arduino powered midi controller project for music makers. This my first arduino (microcontroller) project. I want to learn arduino with a usefull and large project. I decided to make a midi DJ...
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Arduino powered weather station
This Instructables describes how to build a complete WiFi enabled weather station using Arduino and ESP8266 along with a bunch of sensors that collect environment data like temperature, humidity, wind...
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Introducing TI MSP430 Microcontrollers
Texas Instruments (TI) is a well-known US-based semiconductor manufacturer. TI is perhaps best known to many as the manufacturer of some of the fanciest scientific calculators in the market. Of the...
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Printed Circuit Boards – Things You Must Know as a Beginner
A systematic arrangement of electrical components defined by pathways, signal traces, and conductive paths is called a Printed Circuit Board. If as a beginner you question, ‘what’s a PCB?’, then for...
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ESP32 BLE/WiFi development board
We have added a new IoT product to our Tindie store. It is a rapid prototyping and development board for the powerful ESP32 WiFi/BLE module. It is targeted toward rapid development of a wide variety of...
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A DIY vending machine illustration using Arduino
Dejan Nedelkovski from HowToMechatronics illustrates a DIY vending machine using Arduino platform. The vending machine features four discharging units controlled via four continuous rotation servo...
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ESP32 weather station
Another ESP32 based weather station that retrieves weather data from OpenWeatherMap via WiFi and display the infor on a 3.2″ Nextion Touch Display. It also uses the BME280 sensor for measuring weather...
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Continuing the STM8 Expedition
This post is the continuation of the first post on STM8 microcontrollers here. ADC Interrupt Instead of polling for ADC’s end of conversion (EOC) state, it is wise to use ADC interrupt. Just as with...
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STM8 Microcontrollers – the Final Chapters
This post is the sequel of the posts on STM8 microcontrollers here and here. Software I2C – DS1307 Software-based I2C is not a big requirement in case of STM8s because STM8 chips have hardware I2C...
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Arduino Pong clock
An Arudino powered pong clock used the classic Pong video game to tell the time, and has multiple display modes to choose from. Arduino pong clock The 2 players automatically win and lose so their...
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The 2018 Hackaday Prize has launched
The 2018 Hackaday Prize has been announced. This is the fifth contest of the annual Hackaday Prize series and is jointly sponsored by Digi-Key and Supplyframe. This year’s challenge to the hardware...
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Seeed Fusion OPL Enables Complete PCB Manufacture and Assembly in One Week at...
What is the Seeed OPL? The Seeed Fusion Open Parts Library or OPL is a tailored catalog of over 600 carefully selected components available for use in Seeed Fusion’s PCB assembly service. From...
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More on TI MSP430s
This post is a sequel of the first post on TI MSP430 micros here. Low Power Modes (LPM) From the smartwatches in our wrists to the vehicles we use for transportation, many modern electronic gadgets...
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Getting Started with Nuvoton 8-bit Microcontrollers
Many of us who are involved in the embedded system industry like 8-bit microcontrollers. They are cheap, easy to use and solve most of the common automation problems. 32-bit micros are in that contrast...
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Acme traffic light restoration
The Southern California Transportation Museum is one of the largest private transportation museums in the United States. We are privileged to have among our artifacts a set of Acme traffic lights. This...
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Getting Started with Nuvoton 8-bit Microcontrollers – Coding Part 1
This post is a continuation of the first post on Nuvoton N76E003 microcontroller here. About the N76E006 Test Board Shown below are the actual photo, the PCB layout and the schematic of the...
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Getting Started with Nuvoton 8-bit Microcontrollers – Coding Part 2
This post is a continuation of the previous post on Nuvoton N76E003 microcontroller here. Overview of N76E003 Timers Since N76E003 is based on 8051 architecture, many of its hardware features will have...
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