arduino

A collection of 31 posts

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Tuesday Tooling: Wokwi Circuit Simulator

Make circuits without the hardware. On the bus, train, sofa, whereever the inspiration hits you!

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Tuesday Tooling: ATTinyCore

A tiny board with lots of possibilities

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Monday Microcontroller: MAKER UNO

An Arduino Uno clone, but designed with education in mind? Surely we've seen this before?

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Tuesday Tooling: PROGRAM-O-TRON

Need to bulk flash a load of Arduino ATMEGA chips? Then this piece of kit will save you some time!

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Tuesday Tooling: MAKER-DRIVE!

A £3 motor controller aimed directly at beginners! Seriously, this is so easy to use!

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Friday Fun: Light up a life!

Light up the lives of our key workers! Here is one project that we can build using arts and crafts materials. We will look at four common boards and how we can use them in the project.

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Friday Fun: TinyGo on Arduino

TinyGo, what is it and how easy is it to use? Read on my friend!

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Friday Fun - Late Edition : Tiny Neopixels

Super tiny neopixel LEDs from Aliexpress, but are they any good? I took the hit for you!

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Christmas Neopixel Hack 2019!

Turn a boring Poundland / Dollarstore Christmas star into an IoT colour changing star! All we need is a little time and some code!

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Reading an NFC tag with a Linksprite NFC Shield v1.0

A long time ago, national electronics store Maplin closed down. I got quite a bit of gear, cheap! And I've finally got the NFC reader and stickers to work with Arduino!

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Tooling Tuesday - Mega 2560 Pro

Need an Arduino Mega, but can't sacrifice the space? Well here is a board that gives us all the pins, but at less than half the size!

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Friday Fun: Summer Hacks!

17 Free projects to keep the kids busy all summer long!

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Microcontroller Monday - Read and Write to an SD card with Arduino

Learn how to use an SD card reader with your Arduino. It isn't as difficult as you may think!

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Tooling Tuesday PySerial

Learn how to send and receive data from Arduino, Adafruit and Python using Serial connections.

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Tooling Tuesday - 315MHz Transmitter & Receiver

Want to remote control the pins of your Arduino using very little tech and money? Well this $2 kit is just for you!

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Friday Fun - ATtiny85 £10 Robot Challenge!

In this blog post we build a robot for as cheap as possible!

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Friday Fun - Neopixel Cinema Sign

Using a cheap micro controller and some NeoPixel LEDs we can make our own rainbow animated cinema sign!

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Friday Fun - Six New Projects!

Six new projects covering Python, Pi, Arduino and much more!

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Tooling Tuesday - Bright Lights!

Fancy decorating your home / Christmas tree / self with neopixel fairy lights? For less than £10? Read on!

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Friday Fun - Neopixel Camera Light

Create colourful and artistically lit photos with < £10 of equipment and a little code.

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Light your way with Arduino...

Take your first step in to Arduino with a very hackable night light project from RasPi.tv.

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Tuesday Tooling: Teeny Tiny ATtiny85

A hardware themed Tuesday Tooling this week! So what is it? A tiny microcontroller that is compatible with the Arduino IDE. It comes in many different forms, some connect via micro USB, some direct into your USB port. This version of the ATtiny85 is a clone board connects via micro

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Friday Fun: Hacking a Toy Car With 4Duino

Disclaimer: These boards were provided by 4tronix for the purpose of the blog post. This isn't a "review" as such, but you can be assured that the comments that I make are not influenced in any way. I will point out the good and bad openly

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The humble Arduino. Not as powerful as a Raspberry Pi, but you can drop it into countless projects and it will just work, no reboots / crashes...it just works! My first foray into electronics was with an Arduino Uno and since then I have used many other boards. So when

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Hacking Apple A1048 Keyboard

Confession - I love early 2000s Apple design asthetics. So when I had the chance to own an A1048 mechanical keyboard...I jumped at the chance. The keyboard itself was a little unloved, being left in a storage rooms for years. So I took it home and photographed it as