Wemos D1 mini: A first look at this ESP8266 based board
educ8s.tv has a new video discussing about the Wemos D1 mini board. In this video we are going to take a first look at the Wemos D1 mini board. The new impressive ESP8266 based board. It is very small in size, very inexpensive but very powerful! If you have watched some of my...
Continue ReadingIN-4 Nixie Clock using ATmega168
andrea biffi @ instructables.com has a detailed tutorial on how to build your own Nixie clock using IN-4 tubes and Atmel ATMega168 microcontroller. Nixies are neon valve tubes, where ten cathodes have shape of digits and are lighted up by plasma when high voltage flows through them....
Continue ReadingArduino LED Scroll Bar using easyEDA
Today I want to make a LED Scroll Bar as is shown in the picture above. Ten LED strips can flash in different effect by using a control board. Components: LED strip, Arduino Nano, Dupont line and a control board. Arduino LED Scroll Bar using easyEDA -...
Continue ReadingSmartWatering – Arduino plant watering
Arduino based project in charge of taking care of your green plant. Particle Core based project in charge of taking care of my green plants. The water pump will not work with a voltage under 5V. In order to power it, I soldered a wire straight on the VUSB pin of the USB header....
Continue ReadingEasy Planter – A Simple Way Of Monitoring Plants
Easy Planter is a plant monitoring device able to sense temperature, humidity, pressure, moisture, light etc. A small bluetooth low energy plant sensor that easily fits into a plant pot. It can monitor temperature, humidity, pressure, moisture, light, and has I2C extension pins so...
Continue ReadingOne Channel Infra Red Remote Controller
One Channel Infra-Red Remote and receiver with onboard Relay provides normally open and normally closed output. The project based on PIC12F683 Microcontroller from Microchip , TSOP1738 used as Infra-Red receiver. Micro-controller decodes the RC5 serial data coming from TSOP1738 and...
Continue ReadingProteus Tutorial – Light Emitting Diode (LED) and Bar Graph Display
circuitstoday.com guide us to the basics of LED and bargraph usage in Proteus software. In this post we will be learning on how to use the “Light Emitting Diode (LED)” component in Proteus simulation software. In case you have not got on through the basics of Proteus, here is...
Continue ReadingMaximize the Energy from Long-Life Batteries
by digikey.com: Battery lifetime is a key consideration for the development of the wireless sensor nodes that will populate the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In many applications, the sensor nodes will need to be installed in locations that are difficult to reach let alone...
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