Assume that you are moving towards a complex microcontroller project bundled with blinkers, beepers, and a display panel. To link a standard 16×2 LCD directly with the microcontroller, for instance ...

The past month or so I’ve been playing with the Maxim DS1307 Real-Time-Clock and DS1621 Temperature Sensor ICs. I hooked them up to an Arduino Uno board with a Parallax Serial 16×2 Character LCD. I ...

While the SSD1306 OLED has somewhat become the go-to display for up-to-date projects, the good old character displays with their Hitachi HD44780 controller don’t seem to be disappearing just yet ...

Developers, makers and hobbyists looking for a real time clock module complete with an Arduino library, may be interested in the Kraztech Real Time Clock Module created by developer Christopher ...

When it comes to measuring time on microcontrollers, there’s plenty of ways to go about things. For most quick and dirty purposes, such as debounce delays or other wait states, merely counting away a ...

Maker alarm clocks are becoming more and more fun. We recently saw this version which requires you to shoot it with a Nerf gun, and now this: an alarm clock you can play Pac-Man on. Inside of this ...