Let’s learn about an interesting educational platform that allows you to make and study a real multitude of electronic circuits and their applications. Among the techniques to approach students and very young people, the one of using ecosystems related to prototyping boards such as Arduino has proved to be very effective; next to it…
We develop and test applications with the Pro midi 1284P board. Recently we have introduced and described a new prototyping board called PRO midi 1284, based on an ATmega 1284P microcontroller; after this presentation, made in a previous post, we start to work with it and we explain how to interface it in…
It is halfway between an Arduino Mini (in size) and an Arduino Mega in terms of computational capacity, available memory and integrated peripherals. Since the creation of the Arduino project and the subsequent spread of the original boards, the electronics industry and especially the nascent electronics industry for Makers, has moved in two directions:…
Equipped with an SD card and RTC, it detects and stores temperature, humidity and barometric pressure using a combined sensor, showing the data graphically on a touch display. Nowadays, also and above all in environmental monitoring, we are moving towards connected solutions and more and more integrated into the IoT concept, but not…
Lots of components to make applications that can be programmed with Arduino and assembled like LEGO bricks. How many times did you dream of building something with LEGO bricks when you were a child and see it moving, animated, perhaps integrating a certain amount of programmable electronics to keep up with the times?…
For all electronic designers, having new ideas and sources of inspiration is essential. At the base of the open-source movement there is the sharing of one’s own projects so that other technicians can take inspiration. There are many repositories where you can find complete projects, but now we want to introduce you to our sponsor…
Let’s interface our Energy Meter with Internet to bring measurements to the ThingSpeak platform and see the results in convenient graphs. A few posts ago, we introduced the MCP39F511 integrated circuit, capable of performing electrical measurements in single-phase electrical systems through the FT1346M board. We have integrated it with the GSM board and…
It monitors the electricity consumption and sends the detected data to the cloud through the GSM cellular network; it is based on an Arduino Mega equipped with GSM Shield and a board on which the measurement board is mounted. Second and final instalment. In the previous post on Open Electronics, we have proposed…
It monitors electricity consumption and sends the detected data to the cloud through the GSM cellular network; it is based on an Arduino Mega equipped with GSM Shield and an absorption detector board. First instalment. Monitoring the electricity consumption of your home or business is an increasingly topical issue. The electrical measurements made,…
With Arduino Mega, we create, a keyboard with RFID module, a configurable access control system, to manage electric locks. In the market there are different types of controls for electric locks: from the simple insertion of codes to biometric readers, passing through transponder readers (RFID) or magnetic strips. The project that we present…
With 10 million Arduino UNO sold worldwide, this board becomes the most widespread prototyping board ever. The first Arduino UNO board was introduced in 2005 and in those days integrating a communication system such as WiFi was extremely expensive. So why not think of something that would allow all owners of this board to make an…
The usual rectangular shaped PCBs got bored. The current prototyping services like PCBWAY allow to create PCBs with different shapes. An excellent software that allows you to get the gerber to be printed is Eagle. With the help of other free software such as Google Sketchup it is possible to create circuits of all shapes….
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