[Trent M. Wyatt]’s CPUVolt library provides a fast way to measure voltage using no external components, and no I/O pin. It only applies to certain microcontrollers, but he provides example Arduino ...

An RGB LED module is a versatile lighting component that can produce millions of colours by mixing red, green, and blue light ...

IoT and wearable devices have become essential tools in our everyday lives. From health monitoring wearables to smart home sensors, they rely heavily on battery power to function. However, optimizing ...

A Raspberry Pi Zero Shield that will connect a Zero or Zero W module to a 3.3V or 5V compatible Arduino board, is available from US-based Burgessworld Custom Electronics. The two boards are connected ...

In a previous article, we looked at connecting various kinds of Arduino hardware to your Mac. Here's how to get started programming on them to create your own projects. In order to program your ...

In this project, we create a joystick-controlled laser by connecting two servos to a joystick and using this setup as a pan-and-tilt controller for a laser pointer. The following is excerpted from the ...

The Arduino platform offers a variety of affordable toys used by DIY enthusiasts for simple electronics projects. It is known for being easy to learn and is built on a variant of the C++ programming ...

What do you do, when you need a random number in your programming? The chances are that you reach for your environment’s function to do the job, usually something like rand() or similar. This returns ...

We all like cheap items off eBay especially if they do cool and unusual things, sometimes we get so carried away by the price that we do not even realize that fact that we do not know anything about ...