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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 ...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Joanne Leung

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...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Joanne Leung

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 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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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...

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How to send data to Processing 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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Using Arduino Leonardo to send USB MIDI data

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One of the secrets of Arduino Leonardo is the in-built USB MIDI support. This is really useful fo...

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Using an MFRC522 RFID reader

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What is an MFRC522 RFID reader RFID means radio-frequency identification. RFID uses electromagnet...

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Using the serial monitor and serial logger

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What is serial communication? Serial communication is a type of communication between two device...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Tom Lynch

How to use a rotary encoder

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What is a rotary encoder? A rotary encoder is an electromechanical device that converts the angul...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Joanne Leung

How to connect a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)

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What is an LDR? An LDR or Light Dependent Resistor is a component which restricts how much power ...

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Connecting a Potentiometer

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What is a potentiometer? A potentiometer (often abbreviated to pot) is an electronic component wi...

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Using a HC-SR04 distance sensor

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What is the HC-SR04? The HC-SR04 is a ultrasonic distance sensor, it uses ultrasound to send out ...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Joanne Leung

How to connect a push button or switch

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What is are push buttons/switches? Buttons and switches are a way of opening and closing a circui...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Joanne Leung

Using a Sparkfun Sound Detector

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What is the Sound Detector? The Sound Detector is a board made by Sparkfun electronics that provi...

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Making sounds with a piezo

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)# What is a piezo? 'Piezo' normally refers to an electrical component which can be used to make ...

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Controlling an actuator with TinkerKit Mosfet

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What is the TinkerKit Mosfet? The TinkerKit Mosfet is a simple module for controlling devices lik...

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Using a Sparkfun MP3 Trigger

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What is the MP3 Trigger? The MP3 trigger is a board made by Sparkfun electronics that provides a ...

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Powering an Arduino

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How to power an Arduino Here is some resources about powering Arduino or other electronic project...

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How to install libraries

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Arduino libraries are collections of code that are designed to provide additional, reusable funct...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Joanne Leung