All items in category Arduino

AVR Playground: Improve your way to do Arduino

June 20, 2017 by Denis Meyer

AVR Playground: Improve your way to do Arduino

Designed by Clemens Valens at Elektor.LABS, the AVR Playground – a playful reference to the Arduino forum known as the Arduino Playground – is a hybrid of an Arduino Uno and a traditional micro-controller development board. It is intended for ‘doing Arduino’ without bad connections and loose wires (although it doesn’t disallow it). It provides an easy way to start learning the microcontroller without having to solder or add other components.

New Book: Home Automation Projects with Arduino

May 24, 2017 by Sarah Quilter

New from Elektor: Home Automation Projects with Arduino

As you well know, the Arduino is "the" basic component in the maker community, however to expand its capabilities makers are still largely on their own. To really make the most of the Arduino, and explore the projects in which it can be used, it means getting back to basics which can often cause major problems — and that's where the book Home Automation Projects with Arduino begins.

Arduino Braccio Robotic Arm kit

May 23, 2017 by Denis Meyer

Arduino Braccio Robotic Arm kit

This timelapse video shows you how easily the Arduino Tinkerkit* Braccio Robotic Arm kit can be assembled. While manipulating the different parts and screwing it together, you will learn a lot about how it actually works. The assembly is real fun, and thanks to the Arduino test sketch found in the examples, aligning the servomotors is a piece of cake too. Soon you’ll be familiar with the arm itself and learn how to control its movements through your smartphone.

Review: Elektor/Make: Sand Clock Kit

February 16, 2017 by Denis Meyer

Review: Elektor/Make: Sand Clock Kit

Described in the January & February 2017 edition of Elektor, the Sand Clock project, unique for its mechanical design, is all the better for its availability in kit form, which I’ve wanted to examine more closely. The principle of this gadget is amusing: to write the time in sand every minute, with a stylus on a pantograph and some servomotors, and erase it just before the next minute, and repeat endlessly.

The Arduino Project Handbook contains 25 practical projects to get started.

January 11, 2017 by Elektor Team

Now in our Store: Arduino Project Handbook from No Starch Press

Now available in the Elektor Store is the Arduino Project Handbook from No Starch Press. This book is a beginner-friendly collection of electronics projects using the low-cost Arduino board. With just a handful of components, an Arduino, and a computer, you'll learn to build and program everything from light shows to arcade games to an ultrasonic security system.

New Arduino IDE reunites opposing camps

January 4, 2017 by Clemens Valens

New Arduino IDE reunites opposing camps

As far as Arduino users are concerned the disagreement that made the Arduino group split into two entities .CC and .ORG is finally over with the introduction of version 1.8.0 of the Arduino IDE. Up to this version users needed to install two IDEs on their computer – v1.6 and v1.7 – to support all the ‘official’ Arduino boards available; version 1.8.0 (and up) knows them all.

BrainBox Arduino: A ruggedized Arduino with screw terminals

January 3, 2017 by Elektor Team

BrainBox Arduino: A ruggedized Arduino with screw terminals

Have you read the BrainBox Arduino article in the latest edition of Elektor magazine? BrainBox Arduino is a rugged version of the Arduino Leonardo. Thanks to its sturdy screw terminals, a number of different power supply options, an on-board buzzer and a motor-driver IC that connects directly to motors, there is usually no need for breadboards, extra ICs or shields in most applications.

MEAS: all weather sensors on one Arduino shield. Image credit: Mouser.

December 12, 2016 by Jan Buiting

MEAS: five weather sensors on one Arduino shield

In a stint of list-o-mania TE Connectivity have slapped five environmental sensors on a single board called MEAS for plugging onto the Arduino/Genuino 101 and Uno R3. HTU21D, MS5637 , TSYS01, MS8607, and TSD305-1C55 on one shield.

Infineon’s Arduino-Compatible 24V PROFET Switch Shield Now at Mouser Electronics

October 24, 2016 by Elektor Team

Infineon’s Arduino-Compatible 24V PROFET Switch Shield Now at Mouser Electronics

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry's leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking the Protected Switch Shield with PROFET™ 24V for Arduino from Infineon Technologies. The Protected Switch Shield is a power switch evaluation board compatible with Arduino microcontroller boards and with Infineon’s XMC™ microcontroller kits using the Arduino form factor.

Review: Flip & click board - Hardware that isn't hard

October 5, 2016 by Clemens Valens

Review: Flip & click board - Hardware that isn't hard

The “Flip & click” from MikroElektronika is an Arduino Due with Arduino Uno R3 compatible shield connectors on one side and four mikroBus slots on the other. The Arduino side is Arduino blue, the click side is white. The outline of the board vaguely reminds of a butterfly, and is as surprising as its packaging that you have to unfold completely in order to read the full description of what is inside.

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