Arduino Basics

UPDATE: Magzor has just started a Kickstarter campaign . Please check it out to get a good package deal on many of their components. Many of which were used in this tutorial.   This tutorial will show you how to build your own Stroboscopic Animator using Magzor's Mechanotronic Design Portal as a starting point. Magzor Corporation is a business in California that is trying really hard to simplify robotic design. They want to enable users with little to no engineering experience to design and manufacture a custom robot by themselves in a matter of hours. What is a stroboscope? A stroboscope is an instrument that uses a strobe light to make a moving object look stationary… We will use this feature to create an interesting 4 picture animation on a rotating disk.     Have a look at the video below to see the project in action, and the MDP process walk-thr...

I just came across this site today ( www.schematics.com ).It looks pretty impressive !! Schematics.com allows you to "build, share and view schematics from you browser" You can also embed your schematic creations on your website - which is neat.         Circuit Diagram - Schematics is the language of electronics. It provides a concise and comprehensive diagrammatic description of a circuit. Schematics.com allows users to connect and share designs and ideas in a like-minded community.      

Description Have you ever wanted to transmit Arduino data over the internet? In this tutorial, we will design a web page that will retrieve Analog readings from the Arduino's Analog Pins and display them on a bar chart within the web page. The web page will use jQuery and AJAX to request the data from the Arduino Web Server, allowing us to update the bar chart dynamically, without having to refresh the entire web page. The Arduino Web Server will send the Analog readings to the web page in JSON format where it will be processed and displayed accordingly. In this tutorial, I will not have anything connected to the Arduino's Analog pins, which means the data retrieved will be that of randomly floating analog pins. Feel free to connect a potentiometer, temperature sensor or any other analog sensor to these pins if you want to create a more "useful" project....

Description Long straight lines of LED luminescence is nice, but sometimes you may want to light up something that has an unusual shape, or is not so linear. This is where the 12mm diffused flat digital RGB LED Pixels can come into play. This cool strand of 25 RGB LED pixels fit nicely into 12mm pre-drilled holes of any material you like. This tutorial is dedicated to making a LED Light Box. I wanted the box to be equally as interesting during the day as it was at night. If you decide you make your own, feel free to be as creative as you want !! However, if you lack artistic acumen, you may need to source a minion or two. Parts Required: LED Circuit: Arduino UNO (or compatible board) 12mm Diffused Flat Digital RGB LED Pixels (Strand of 25) PowerTran 5V DC 4A Plugpack with 2.1mm tip 2.1mm Screw Terminal, DC Power Line socket Breadboard Breadboard jumper wi...

Project Description We will be using an MT8870 DTMF module with an Arduino UNO to control a small servo motor in this project. The DTMF module gives the Arduino super-powers and allows you to control the Servo motor in so many ways. For example, this tutorial will show you how to control the servo motor using: a YouTube Video a voice recorder A web application (Online tone generator) A smart phone app (DTMF Pad) A touch-tone phone to cell-phone call All of these control methods will take advantage of the same exact Arduino code/sketch. But how??? The MT8870 DTMF decoder is quite a neat little module that allows you incorporate DTMF technology into your arduino projects. DTMF stands for D ual- T one M ulti- F requency. DTMF tones are commonly associated with touch-tone phones and other telecommunication systems. When you press the number "1" on a touch-tone phone, two sine wav...

Project Description In this project, your heart will control a mesmerising LED sequence on a 5 metre Neopixel LED strip with a ws2812B chipset . Every heart beat will trigger a LED animation that will keep you captivated and attached to your Arduino for ages. The good thing about this project is that it is relatively easy to set up, and requires no soldering. The hardest part is downloading and installing the FastLED library into the Arduino IDE, but that in itself is not too difficult. The inspiration and idea behind this project came from Ali Murtaza , who wanted to know how to get an LED strip to pulse to his heart beat. &nbsp Have a look at the video below to see this project in action.       The Video       Parts Required: Arduino UNO (or compatible board) NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Weatherpr...