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Sensors are a worthwhile topic to write about: They bring electronics projects in contact with the real world and facilitate all kinds of practical applications. Dogan Ibrahim describes more than 40 projects in this comprehensive book.

We get many questions about Arduino. Most of them have been asked before, and some several times. There is, of course, a countless number of webpages out there which treat most of these questions in some way, but it means digging through forums and blogs to find the answers. As this can be quite time consuming, Elektor Labs decided to compile their own Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Arduino and write down the answers to them once and for all. So, before asking us, check our Arduino FAQ to see if the answer to your question is already there.

When I was asked to review the STEMTera I had absolutely no idea what it was. The website, of the type that does not clearly mention what it is about, left me a bit puzzled, but when I opened the box, the product’s purpose became immediately clear and I loved the idea.

With the compliments of the Elektor Editorial and Labs teams, here is a 'fresh' article presented free of charge to all Elektor e-zine subscribers. This time we have author Werner Möhrle discuss his temperature recorder based on an Arduino Uno and a DS1631 sensor, along with a Sketch that, remarkably, doesn't use any libraries!

Released last October at the 2019 Maker Faire Rome, the new Arduino Pro IDE is based on Eclipse Theia.

Pixy2 is an artificial vision sensor for rapid recognition of moving shapes and colours. It follows objects at a rate of 60 images per second and has algorithms for recognition of shapes and colours. To better follow moving objects, it may be mounted (as an option) on a pan-tilt support, and control the vertical and horizontal movements itself.

From small DIY projects to large industrial applications – PLCs that work on an open source software base changed the way how tech professionals do their control and automation. They don’t fully lock you in to a specific vendor and enable you to customize the control and automation process of your specific application possible.

This is a submission from Distrelec on a free live webinar on IoT security in collaboration with the world’s leading open-source hardware and software manufacturers, Arduino. Sharing a wealth of industry knowledge, Gianluca Varisco (Chief Information Security Officer at Arduino) will provide a detailed understanding on why the future and success of IoT is in the “security of things”.

Creating a new sketch in the Arduino IDE makes the editor open a template containing skeletons for the functions setup and loop. What if you don't like this template? Can you edit it somehow? Yes, you can, and here is how.

This Arduino project, described in the November & December 2017 issue of Elektor is both useful and original in many respects. It is notable for the use of a component a bit out of the ordinary: a load cell. For electronics purposes, this is a simple variable resistance which measures the mechanical deformation to which it is subjected.