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Touch sensor - with No Sensor!

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What is Capacitive Touch Sensing? Simply put, it is the touch sensing of all conductive materials...

Updated 1 month ago by Joanne Leung

Using a Soil Moisture Sensor

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What is a Soil Moisture Sensor? The Soil Moisture Sensor measures soil moisture grace to the chan...

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Using a Force Sensor

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What is a Force Sensor? The Force Sensor senses the resistance value depending on how much it has...

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Using L293D IC for motors

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What is L293D? The L293D is a 16-pin Motor Driver IC which can control a set of two DC motors sim...

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(MAC) Automatic printing with Automator

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What is Automator? Apple’s Automator is a built-in Mac feature that allows users to easily “progr...

Updated 1 month ago by Joanne Leung

How to use a Bare Conductive Touch Board with Arduino

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What is the Bare Conductive Touch Board? The Bare Conductive Touch Board is a board made by Bare ...

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How to use a PIR sensor

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What is a PIR sensor? PIR stands for Passive Infra Red and therefore a PIR sensor can etect movem...

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How to use a Neopixel strip

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What is Neopixel? Neopixel is a name given by Adafruit. Neopixel is an addressable LED, meaning t...

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Using a Vibration Motor

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What is a vibration motor? Vibration motor is a DC motor in a compact size that is used to inform...

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Making Breathing Light with LEDs

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What is a LED? LED (Light Emitting Diode) is a semiconductor light source that emits light when c...

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How to control Arduino without using delay()

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What is a delay()? delay() is a function that pauses the program for the amount of time (in milli...

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Using a TCS34725 RGB Color Sensor

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What is the TCS34725 RGB Color Sensor? The TCS3472 sensor provides a digital return of red, green...

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How to use DFPlayer mini to play MP3

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What is a DFPlayer? Replacing DFplayer Mini Since this old model is not the most stable and ...

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How to make Animation on NeoMatrix

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What is NeoMatrix? NeoMatrix is a grid lined up with mutiple Neopixel. Neopixel is addressable LE...

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How to build a Simple Robot Arm with Servo Motor and Joystick

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How to construct a robotic arm? A simple robotic arm is basically like a human arm which consists...

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How to send data to p5.js from Arduino

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What is the Serial Communication? Serial communication is the process of sending data one bit at ...

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How to Program an ATtiny85 with an Arduino Uno

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What is an ATtiny85? ATtiny85 is a 8-bit AVR microcontroller based on AVR enhanced RISC architect...

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How to make Animation on NeoMatrix with Processing

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Controlling NeoMatrix with Processing This tutorial is a follow-up to the last NeoMatrix animatio...

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How to use a Hall Effect Sensor

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What is a Hall Effect Sensor? The hall effect sensor is a type of magnetic sensor which can be us...

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Using the MAX9814 mic amplifier

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This Adafruit MAX9814 microphone amplifier allows you to easily detect sound.  There are a total...

Updated 1 month ago by Marta Ilacqua