Making an Arduino shield can be simpler than you think. This time I designed one to program Attiny and Atmega microcontrollers, that way I don't have to use a breadboard and make the wiring to program ...

After a major water leak flooded my home, I realized alerts alone weren’t sufficient—I needed automatic shutoff. This project combines a hacked Gröhe Guard system, an Arduino Nano, an ESP32, and the ...

The bootloader looks for byte in eeprom at address 0x1FF: -if it is set to 0xF0 bootloader will look for a bin file on the sdcard named firmware.bin and use it to flash the firmware then reset the ...

The Arduino brand will remain for future products as it becomes part of the Qualcomm business. Plus, there's a brand-new Arduino Uno Q single-board computer. Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add ...

Halogen lights are great — they produce lots of bright warm light, but they suck a lot of juice to run. [Sven] had found a nice floor lamp years ago that was in pretty rough shape — his wife ...

Qualcomm takes over Arduino, a manufacturer known for its microcontroller boards. Qualcomm is presenting its first single-board computer for DIY projects directly on the occasion of the takeover: the ...

We don’t think we’d want to trust our fire safety to a robot carrying a few ounces of water, but as a demonstration or science project, [Tinker Guru’s] firefighting robot was an entertaining answer to ...

Have you ever wanted to build your own IoT-based Weather Monitoring Station? Imagine monitoring real-time temperature, humidity levels, atmospheric pressure, rainfall detection, air quality index (AQI ...

The FastLED Cookbook provides practical guides, step-by-step examples, and copy-paste recipes to help you create stunning LED effects - from your first blink to advanced animations. src/README.md ...