Category: DIY
Lightweight GSM Mobile With Arduino UNO and Nextion Display
Avishek Hardin at Arduino Project Hub designed a lightweight mobile using a GSM module, an Arduino UNO, and a Nextion touch screen display. The lightweight mobile has the following features: Make calls Receive calls Send SMS Receive SMS Delete SMS In this project,...
Continue ReadingHousehold Power Consumption IoT Meter with Anti-theft Feature
BSP Embed published a video demonstrating a new project to build a connected device to measure the power consumption of household instruments. The presenter relied in his project on the feature of having a blinking led in modern power meters where each blink means that 1 KWh is...
Continue ReadingZeroPhone, A Raspberry Pi-Based Open Source Smartphone
Raspberry Pi is one of the most helpful innovations in the hardware industry. It has helped beginners and children learn programming and allowed the makers to develop powerful and cheap DIY projects. "ZeroPhone" is a new DIY smartphone that is built based on Raspberry Pi and cost about...
Continue ReadingMaster Your Arduino Skills With Arduino Playground Book
Are you an experienced maker who are looking for more advanced Arduino skills to get? Warren Andrews, an experienced engineer and journalist, wrote a new book that walks makers through building 10 outside-the-box projects, helping them advance their engineering and electronics...
Continue Reading10km ESP32 WiFi Using Directional Antenna
[Jeija] was playing with some ESP32s and in true hacker fashion, he wondered how far he could pull them apart and still get data flowing. His video answer to that question covers the Friis equation and has a lot of good examples of using the equation, decibels, and even a practical...
Continue ReadingDIY Arduino Soldering Station
GreatScottLab @ instructables.com writes: In this project I will show you how to create an Arduino based soldering station for a standard JBC soldering iron. During the build I will talk about thermocouples, AC power control and zero point detection. Let's get started! DIY Arduino...
Continue ReadingEducational Biomed Shield for Arduino 101
Orlando Hoilett has built his new biomedical Arduino 101 shield: Biomed Shield, in order to allow students, educators, and hobbyists to learn about bio-medicine by monitoring heart rate, temperature, and other physiological metrics. To build this shield he used the following...
Continue ReadingHack Your Car With Macchina M2
Car hacking applications have been growing during the last few years, making it faster and cheaper to get into automotive tinkering. A new device was launched recently on kickstarter called M2 by Macchina. M2 is an open-source, versatile development platform which can be wired...
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