Mini Electronic Piano with 555 Timer
Build a simple seven-note electronic keyboard using the versatile 555 timer IC. This project explains the astable multivibrator configuration and how to calculate resistor values for musical notes.
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Soil Moisture Sensor
Build a simple soil moisture threshold detector with a PCB fork sensor, an LM393 comparator, and a relay output for visual and local control.
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Arduino UNO R4 WiFi: A Guide to Sensors and Displays
Learn how to use the STEMMA QT/Qwiic connector on the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi to connect I²C sensors and displays, with a custom adapter board and example code.
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How to Adjust X and Y Axis Scale in Arduino Serial Plotter (No Extra Software Needed)
The Serial Plotter in Arduino is an excellent tool for quickly visualizing serial data. However, it has a limitation that can frustrate many users: it’s not immediately obvious how to adjust the X and Y axis scales, especially the X axis. In this article, I will guide you step by step on how to solve…
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Mini Course on Blynk
Among the simplest platforms for connecting IoT devices is Blynk IoT. Blynk allows you to quickly create apps to control wireless modules, visualize data from sensors, create dataloggers, and much more. In this two-part mini course, Michele Maffucci provides detailed explanations on how to make the most out of Blynk.
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PCB CAD, A SELECTION GUIDE
Getting to know and evaluate the software offer for PCB, in order to choose the best one for our needs. Designing an electronic board is a considerable and varied effort, both in terms of board design, starting from its functional specs, and in terms of construction. In order to create an integrated board, we…
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DIY Sensor – Innovation & Implementation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG55OmGgqmQ&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=PCBWay A sensor converts data such as heat, light, sound, and motion into electrical signals. These signals are passed through an interface that converts them into a binary code and passes this on to a computer to be processed. Today, let’s see how makers use plenty of sensors to build their awesome projects! …
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Let’s program Arduino with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
Let’s discover the programming environment that facilitates interaction between software and electronic devices. Electronics and IT have many things in common, we just need to know that the latter would not exist without the former. So yet, we tend to consider IT as a world apart and for this reason, we often do not…
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Getting Started with the ESP32
This article is a getting started guide for the ESP32 development board. If you’re familiar with the ESP8266, the ESP32 is its sucessor. The ESP32 is loaded with lots of new features. The most relevant: it combines WiFi and Bluetooth wireless capabilities and it’s dual core. From OpenStore More info
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The world of GIThub
Let’s learn all the aspects of the most renowned web hosting service, and familiarise with it, thanks to a sample application. In the previous post, we let you know Git and in particular, we focused on explaining how to use it in order to archive a firmware project on your PC and to…
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Let’s manage a project from A to… GIT
Let’s learn about the firmware management and versioning tool that is at the root of GitHub, and to be able to use it. In order to become a good programmer, it is not enough to know the most popular programming languages, to know how to write the corresponding code, to create more or less…
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Python on ESP32: easy for beginners, powerful for professionals
The ESP32 from Espressif is one of the most popular low-power microcontrollers with integrated WiFi and Bluetooth on the market. That is why we have decided to share a tutorial with you on how to get started with the ESP32 and Zerynth Studio. As an article on the Espressif website states: “Zerynth has provided the…
