There are easy ways of getting more I/O pins for any project; shift registers, I2C expanders, or ADCs will give you plenty of pins for whatever project you have in mind. All these require extra ...
There are two kinds of people in the world (and, no, this isn’t a binary joke). People who love the Arduino, and people who hate it. If you’ve ever tried to use a standard prototype board to mount on ...
One of the first projects that most people do on an Arduino is to light up or flash an LED. It seems ultra-simple because it ...
In the last installment of The GeekDad Arduino Guide, I introduced you to the Arduino hardware and why it is so cool. Now, let’s start actually using an Arduino. How do you get started? Well, first ...
Check out the this colourful but BASIC use of Arduino... I flagged this one in the "Tweets of the Week" section of Electronics Weekly magazine, from the Arduino team, but it's worth highlighting in a ...
Makers and hobbyists looking for a more substantial portable battery pack that they can make themselves, should check out this excellent DIY power bank created by Instructables user “tobychui”. Using ...
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) output driver chips are popular with embedded designers because they provide multiple outputs without using any CPU I/O pins. This article explains how to adapt a ...
The Distributed-power Open Standards Alliance (DOSA) has announced a standard footprint and pin-out design for high-current quarter-brick dc-dc converters. This new standard establishes both the ...