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HestiaPi Touch - Open Smart Thermostat

“Open source hardware smart thermostat for your home. HestiaPi Touch is a completely open source smart thermostat for your home. With it, you can monitor your homes temperature, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure. You can also control your heating, ventilation …

Increase the Electrical Current Capacity of the Arduino Pins

“Learn how to create a circuit to increase the electrical current of the Arduino pins to activate loads that need more electrical current. Introduction Between the several types of Arduino and other Microcontrollers, we have a problem: the low capacity …

Real-Time Clock Battery Monitoring System

“In this article, you will learn how to implement a feature to monitor the real-time clock battery and prevent problems in the circuit. Introduction On several systems that use time and date to perform certain tasks, it is critical to …

USB Mini Media Keyboard

“For my latest electronics project, I’ve built a small USB keyboard input device for media control. The final version has three keys: play/pause, previous track, and next track. In addition, a rotary encoder allows adjusting the volume (or …

10 Million YouTube Subscribers Award LED PCB

“Summary This PCB (Printed Circuit Board) resembles the YouTube Play Button award that is given out to creators for reaching certain milestones such as 100,000, 1 million, and 10 million subscribers. When the switch is turned on, the user …

Adjustable Timer Switch

“Learn how to make a precisely adjustable timer with a variable delay from 1 - 100 seconds that uses the 555 IC. The 555 timer is configured as a Monostable Multivibrator. The output load is driven by the relay switch which …

How to Build a Digital Coil-Less FM Transmitter

“Learn to how to build an easy, stable and digitally controllable FM transmitter. Story An FM transmitter is one of the most popular devices between electronic hobbyist, professionals and even non-technical people. In this article, we are going to learn …

How to Build an Isolated Digital AC Dimmer Using Arduino

“Disclaimer: This circuit is connected directly to the mains voltage. You must care about all safety precautions before using the device. AC loads are everywhere around us because at least home appliances are supplied with the mains power. Therefore, we …

Multipurpose Keypad

“A 4x4 keypad that uses mechanical switches with individually backlit keys powered by an Arduino Pro Micro. This is a 4x4 keypad that I designed and built in my first year of college. My intent for this project was to …

3x3x3 LED Binary Counter Cube

“I assembled for my grade 12 Computer Engineering final project. The goal was to fabricate any circuit that used a 555 timer IC chip. I liked the way LED cubes looked and perhaps the challenge of it too, so I …