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StripLightStar

“Illuminated 7-point-star: A combined 3D-printing and electronics project using WS2812B based striplights for seasonal decoration. Story Out from my former projects with WS2812b based stripligths I focused this time on the 3D printing part to give my electronics a nice …

Temperature Meter/Thermometer with NTC and OLED Display

“Yet another temperature monitoring setup with NTC, SSD1306 OLED and NodeMCU A thermistor is a resistance thermometer or a resistor whose resistance is dependent on temperature. The term is a combination of “thermal” and “resistor”. It is made of metallic …

ZazHRM - a Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitoring System for Sleep Time

“ZazHRM is being developed to try to perform heart rate monitoring (HRM) during sleep time. This prototype broadcasts via Bluetooth (BT), in near real time, a measure of the heart rate (HR) or the pulse signal to an Android phone …

A Blockchain-Powered Smart-Lock

“Securely open/close your front door with a smart contract Story Ever wondered why many consider blockchain to be a game-changer in the IoT space? This example describes how to build a very simple smart-lock powered by a Blockchain smart …

Arduino MKR NB 1500 Over the Telstra Narrowband Network

“We put the Arduino MKR NB 1500 to the test using the Telstra network and show you how to give your IoT project long range communication. Introduction There may be times where you need a project to monitor real-world conditions …

Arduino String Synthesizer

“The Eminent Solina is a famous string synthesizer from the 70’s. It is based on a paraphonic oscillator, a simple envelope and a phaser. The oscillators in the original was a divide down structure where you generate the frequencies …

Arduino Touch Breakout Game

“Fully configurable multi level Arduino breakout game for touch screen. Story This a small version of the classic breakout video game for Arduino UNO and TFT LCD screen (240x320 pixel), driver ILI9341 with 8-bit parallel communication. The game This Breakout …

Binary Calculator

“A binary calculator and binary clock in a handheld format using circuit sculpture building techniques. 328p, MCP7940 RTC, TLC5928 LED driver Technical Details: Atmega 328p processor TLC5928 Constant Current LED Driver MCP7940 RTC MCP73831T Li-Ion Charge Controller 5mm red LEDS …

Project  Binary DVM

Binary DVM

“Binary displays are very popular for clocks so it looked like there a gap waiting to be filled in the measurement area with an instrument that displayed its results in a Binary format. As result I decided that a DVM …

CAN Bus with CircuitPython: Using the canio module

“A Controller Area Network (CAN bus) is a robust vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other’s applications without a host computer. In this guide you’ll learn how to use CircuitPython’s …