[digitaltrails] wanted the data on a few old IBM 80-column punch cards he had lying around, but didn’t have decades old computer hardware in his garage. He decided to build his own out of LEGO, an ...

We’ll admit it, we’re all spoiled. A few bucks can now buy a computer that would have been the envy of everyone back in the late 1970s or early 1980s. So it’s no surprise that [krallja] was able to ...

The Arduino Uno is powered by the ATmega328P, an 8-bit microcontroller that runs at 16 MHz. It has 32 KB of flash memory, 2 KB of SRAM, and 1 KB of EEPROM. The board has 14 digital I/O pins (of which ...

Step 1: Connect all the components as per the circuit diagram. Step 2: Open the Arduino IDE. Step 3: Create a new sketch. Step 4: Type the program. Step 5: Save the program. Step 6: Click Verify to ...

The Type K thermocouple is the most common type. It’s inexpensive, accurate and reliable and has a wide temperature range. This article shows how to use an Arduino Uno/Nano microcontroller with an ...

I have a standard irrigation system with 24VAC solenoids. I have built a simple Arduino + ethernet shield connected to a 4xopto-isolated-relay board for controlling each of my 4 sprinklers. I have the ...

Check out the this colourful but BASIC use of Arduino... I flagged this one in the "Tweets of the Week" section of Electronics Weekly magazine, from the Arduino team, but it's worth highlighting in a ...