A shield that provides 16 digital or PWM I/O using a single Arduino/Fishino I²C bus. Ideal for managing multi-color LED or servo motors. Arduino boards and compatible alternatives are really easy use and o powerful, capable of making countless applications, but they suffer from two strong limitations: the relatively small program memory and the…
Based on Arduino, it performs electronic light games by piloting a LED matrix thanks to a special multiplexing mode. In the “fast paced world” we live, moments when we can do whatever we want are rare and we have to cut them out from our routine, by skillfully balancing between the busy…
Let’s complete the construction of our aircraft and test it. Now that you have physically created the quadcopter – according to the indications supplied in the first installment of this article (published here) – you may move on to the operational stages, and see as a first thing the commands available for our…
A high performance multirotor copter that may be created by starting from a premade base and an Arduino Mega based board, that may receive the commands from a model aircraft’s remote control, and that supports telemetry via smartphones. Nowadays most people call “drone” something that is, actually, a multicopter whose most common form…
By making use Raspberry Pi, we created an easy to build 3D scanner to be used for the acquisition of three-dimensional models via a video camera and a laser 3D printing keeps on establishing itself, mostly thanks to the availability of more user-friendly 3D printers and price drops. Those who use a 3D…
A scalable board to prototype motion control applications for automatic balanced robot or any other robot on wheels. It was the 2013 when we presented a control board to make a clone of the famous SegWay: the OpenWheels project. In recent years, the focus on systems to stabilize unstable ones grew up sensibly….
Rethinking the popular Arduino: compared with the latter, it adds the implementation of the Fishino architecture, along with WiFi connectivity, a battery charger, etc… As we anticipated in the article in which we presented our Fishino MEGA (a board that is compatible with Arduino MEGA, and that is characterized by a great number…
The Fishino version of the powerful and popular board, Arduino MEGA: a revised hardware with a different power section. Not so much time has passed, since we presented our Fishino UNO, a board that is compatible with Arduino UNO and that is provided with interesting additional peripherals on board, among which a WiFi…
Let’s draw freely, by means of a plotter that is easy to make, using the same electronic board present in our 3Drag printer. The vertical plotter is a kind of printer that is very much appreciated by professionals, since it does not print but draws by means of pens, and exactly…
Some years ago a team of developers created a program named Kodi Entertaiment Center, so to transform the famous Microsoft Xbox into a Home Theatre or a Media Center, by taking advantage of the excellent multimedia qualities and of the computing power of the videogame console. Kodi Entertaiment Center was born as an alternative…
It allows to drive the ever-new 4 colour light diodes, by easily changing their brightness and colouring. Recently some multicoloured power LEDs have appeared on the market and, differently from the more common RGB LEDs, they incorporate a white LED, as an addition: they are named RGBW (Red, Green, Blue, White) just because…
Thanks to the Fishino board, we will make an existing fish tank smart, and we will place it in the IoT world. By now, technology has made way in our daily life as well, and the home automation becomes every day more familiar: it is easy to think, for example, to a heating…
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