In this video I'll be showing you how you can control the contrast and the back light brightness of a 1602 LCD display with just the Arduino. The contrast is typically adjusted with a variable ...

Fresh details about the Casio G-Shock GM-H5600 have surfaced online. The Great G-Shock World blog reports that the upcoming model could arrive as early as March. Earlier certifications had already ...

One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

I developed the Egg Incubator Project using an Arduino to maintain optimal hatching conditions with temperature and humidity control, and periodic egg turning. With a 100% hatch rate, this incubator ...

Recently I was looking for an inexpensive pressure + temperature sensor for a barometric altimeter project, which then led to me finding the SPL07-003. After learning there was no existing library to ...

HomeKit has changed how I interact with many of the rooms in my house. While lighting and cameras tend to have the spotlight for most people as they can easily see the impact, environment monitoring ...

Temperature sensors are an important yet often overlooked part of a HomeKit setup. Even working as a passive tracking device, I want to add them to every room to understand more about what’s happening ...

Arduino Nicla Sense Env is a new sensor module with temperature, humidity, and gas (TVOC, NO2, O3) sensing that follows the launch of the Arduino Nicla Sense ME (Motion & Environment) module over ...

I recently had to build an infrared close proximity sensor that could tell if something was dropped in a parcel delivery drop box. After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece ...