CCS811 – Digital CMOS gas sensors for wearables & IoT
by Graham Prophet @ edn-europe.com: Cambridge CMOS Sensors is a semiconductor company that designs gas sensor solutions to monitor the local environment; its CCS811 is the first digital product in its CCS800 product family of ultra-low power miniature gas sensors. The CCS811...
Continue ReadingUsing The Arduino Serial Plotter
idogendel.com introduces us the new serial plotter feature of Aruino IDE 1.6.6: A little unofficial introduction to the Serial Plotter, introduced in the Arduino IDE version 1.6.6. This is a very basic and easy-to-use tool, that allows us to set up quick visualizations of numeric...
Continue ReadingOvenized crystal oscillator frequency stability
E. Schrama @ ejo60.wordpress.com uses an Arduino and a DCF77 time signal receiver to test the stability of an ovenized crystal oscillator running at 1 MHz. In this experiment I will use an Arduino and a DCF77 time signal radio receiver to measure the stability of an ovenized crystal...
Continue ReadingNon-Contact Body Temperature Meter
One of the most commonly used medical instruments nowadays is the thermometer. The thermometer is used to monitor or measure the body temperature of a sick person. The idea of creating a thermometer started from a device called thermoscope, a thermometer without a scale. Several...
Continue ReadingARPM: Another Raspberry Pi Microscope
Dr H @ instructables.com build a Raspberry Pi based microscope using a WaveShare B-camera and plexiglass parts. He writes: Based on the RPI camera and LEGO brick-based microscope I presented earlier ( A-Raspberry-Pi-camera-based-microscope-built-from- LEGO ) I have constructed a...
Continue ReadingDIY Sunlight Simulator – Light Therapy Light
Luke Skaff @ lukeskaff.com decided to build a DIY Sunlight Simulator using wide spectrum filament lamp to be used as light therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder. During the process he checks for various kinds of lamps and examines their light spectrum. He writes: Sunlight...
Continue ReadingMakerarm: The Robot That Can Make Anything!
A complete digital fabrication system for makers everywhere: 3D print, laser, carve, plot, assemble, pick/place + more on your desktop! Makerarm: The Robot That Can Make Anything! -...
Continue ReadingArduino LED Wall clock using WS2811
This is a big LED digit wall clock based on Arduino and WS2811. Features : big digits ( each digit is approximately the size of a A4 paper). slim in order to fit in a photo frame (a big one). auto dim the light depending on the light in the room. dedicated DST...
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