It's a known trick that we can use LEDs in reverse. We'll explore how to use them as photodetectors with Arduino and create a simple demo that responds to hand swipes.
Here's how you can use boards with your Chromebooks in makerspaces, libraries and schools
How to make your own seismometer to measure ground activity, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Our biggest sale on Arduino is happening all weekend, and we have new products as well!
This post highlights my method of creating the control system for our AVC battle arena.
Ever wonder how the Arduino IDE translates your code into instructions for the processor?
Earlier today, Arduino announced a new partnership with Microsoft and special support for Windows.
A look at implementing the Arduino blink.ino sketch as an explicit state machine. To further explore state machines, an alarm clock state diagram is drawn and implemented.
The release of Arduino 1.6 has really improved my Arduino-programming life thanks to custom platform support, command line utilities and line numbers!
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There's a disclaimer at the very end, hopefully that's enough to keep people from attempting. Glad you liked it!
Wow great blog!