Adding Sensors to Monitor Hive Health
Miscellaneous

Adding Sensors to Monitor Hive Health

by Nathan Seidle @ makezine.com: The Digital Beehive uses Wi-Fi to broadcast a beehive’s weight, humidity, temperature, and battery voltage every minute to SparkFun’s data channel service called Phant. The raw data can be seen here but you can view some prettier graphs of the...

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Analog to Digital Converter module

Analog to Digital Converter module

This simple A2D (Analog to Digital) Converter Board can log upto 8 channel of analog signal with 8 bit resolution.  This board uses the  ADC0808 chip from National Semiconductor. Two standard box type header connector for easy connection of the board to various development...

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Analog Ultrasound Range Finder
Test/Measurements

Analog Ultrasound Range Finder

by netzener @ instructables.com: When I started my career in control systems I was fascinated with the many different ways that machines could be interfaced to the environment they operated in. Limit switches (electrical and optical), encoders, resolvers, strain gauges,...

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Distance Measurement using Infrared Sensor with ADC0804 & 8051 Microcontroller
Test/Measurements

Distance Measurement using Infrared Sensor with ADC0804 & 8051 Microcontroller

This project primarily consists of four units: Microchip Technology's SST89E54RDA-40-C-PIE, a sensor unit, an ADC0804 ADC component and the LCD module. Along with detecting an obstacle, its exact distance is also calculated and displayed on a 16x2 LCD interfaced to the...

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Interactive LED Coffee Table – Arduino Compatible

Interactive LED Coffee Table – Arduino Compatible

The project demonstrated here is an IR proximity sensor-based LED light, mainly designed for interactive coffee tables, but also can be used as single interactive light. The table can be made with multiple of these PCBs. Multiple tiles can be used as shown in the image below, each...

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Eduponics Mini, ESP32-Based smart-agriculture IoT kit
IoT

Eduponics Mini, ESP32-Based smart-agriculture IoT kit

STEMinds have posted details on Crowdsupply about the Eduponics Mini. The STEMinds Eduponics Mini is a smart-agriculture and IoT board that features an ESP32 module. The Eduponics Mini features an array of built-in sensors—including temperature, humidity, barometric, ambient light,...

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Infrared Remote-Controlled AC Load ON/OFF switch with SSR

Infrared Remote-Controlled AC Load ON/OFF switch with SSR

Driving an AC high voltage and current load using an Infrared remote is very easy with this project. This is an open-source Arduino compatible hardware that is based on ATMEGA328 microcontroller, SSR (Solid-state Relay), Infrared Receiver TSOP1838, and analog input interface. We have...

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Create +/-12V Split Rail From A 5V Bias
Power supply

Create +/-12V Split Rail From A 5V Bias

With digital semiconductor technology driving system power supplies to lower voltages for higher performance and lower system power, sensitive analog sensor circuits face a growing problem. Much of the inherent noise created in the early stages of an analog sensor signal path is...

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