Hardware

In this article we take a look at  a development board that may be ideal for people who want to get started with an Arduino, its called the Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino. Lets take a look at the kit,…

In this article we look at a pair of modules that can be used for communication between 2 Arduino’s. These are a 315Mhz transmitter and receiver module, they are very similar to the 433Mhz modules we looked at in a…

US-026 is an upgraded version of the HC-SR04, with a kind of high performance, low cost ultrasonic module. The module uses the CS100 , a high performance-cost ratio ultrasonic ranging chip. It has high measurement accuracy and the measuring distance…

It is a dust sensor by optical sensing system. An infrared emitting diode and an phototransistor are diagonally arranged into this device. It detects the reflected light of dust in air. Especially, it is effective to detect very fine particle…

The goal of this article is fairly basic, to try and find various sensors and modules that you can use with an Arduino (and other microcontrollers if you want) but I had a few criteria There must be more than…

RobotDyn UNO+WIFI R3  is a customized version of the classic ARDUINO UNO R3 board which has two Processors: Atmel ATmega328 microcontroller and ESP8266 WiFi chip with 8 MB flash memory. Each processor has its own pinout headers. The board also has…

The Arduino nano is a very nice board, it has the same microcontroller as an Uno, all of its I/O come out to headers, it uses mini usb and its small size make it ideal for projects where space is…

There are a few development systems available which are Arduino based which are designed to make it easier for beginners and young people to get started. One of these is the Grove system and the other is this one which…

This shows how to add ethernet support to an Arduino using a Wiznet 5100 module, this is similar to the Ethernet shield that is commonly used but this module is a little bit more compact which may be an advantage…

This is a basic ‘barebones arduino’, this is an Atmega328 based design. In this example we are externally powering the Atmega from a 5v source, this removes the need for a 5v on board regulator. In theory you can also…