LoRa Mesh Chat
https://www.electronics-lab.com/lora-mesh-chat/
A simple add-on for mobile phones to enable SMS-like messaging in a group when outside cell coverage, or in disaster scenarios. This is a fairly simple add-on for mobile phones to enable SMS-like messaging in a group when outside cell coverage, or in disaster scenarios. It utilises Semtech LoRa radios, for low-power/long-range communications. There are […]
1.14″ 240×135 Color TFT Display + MicroSD Card Breakout – ST7789
https://www.electronics-lab.com/1-14-240x135-color-tft-display-microsd-card-breakout-st7789/
Say hello to the 1.14″ 240×135 Color TFT Display w/ MicroSD Card Breakout. It’s the size of your thumbnail, with glorious 240×135 high res pixel colour. This very very small display is only 1.14″ diagonal, packed with RGB pixels, for making very small high-density displays. It’s so small only 1.14″ diagonal but has a high density of 260 PPI, […]
Adafruit Releases 1.14-Inch Mini PiTFT Display for the Raspberry Pi
https://www.electronics-lab.com/adafruit-releases-1-14-inch-mini-pitft-display-raspberry-pi/
The Adafruit Mini PiTFT – 135×240 Color TFT Add-on for Raspberry Pi is your little TFT pal, ready to snap onto any and all Raspberry Pi computers, to give you a little display. The Mini PiTFT comes with a full color 240×135 pixel IPS display with great visibility at all angles. The TFT uses only […]
Top 10 websites to find footprints for your next PCB project
https://www.electronics-lab.com/top-10-websites-to-find-footprints-for-your-next-pcb-project/
It’s one thing to have an idea (especially a hardware-based idea) and it’s another thing to bring it to life. Rapid Prototyping using tools like 3D Printer has opened a lot of opportunities for the everyday makers, hardware enthusiasts, and hackers. For the person looking to build that next cool thing, maybe a PoV (Persistence […]
Getting Started with Adafruit.io IoT Cloud Platform
https://www.electronics-lab.com/getting-started-adafruit-io-iot-cloud-platform/
In the last tutorial, we examined How to connect your IoT devices to the Arduino IoT Cloud, and we saw how to send and receive data, from and to the cloud. With multiple cloud solutions available for IoT devices, there might be a need for you to work with one not as traditional as the […]
Adafruit RGB Matrix Bonnet – Control RGB Matrix Display Easily with a Raspberry Pi
https://www.electronics-lab.com/adafruit-rgb-matrix-bonnet-control-rgb-matrix-display-easily-raspberry-pi/
RGB Matrix displays are a great way adding interactions to a project and displaying objects in a 2D space. RGB LED matrices can be used as a display for playing games, display animations, watch movies, display sensor data, and much more can be the done with these big and beautiful LED displays. Of course, RGB Matric […]
Adafruit Metro 328 – An Arduino Uno Compatible Development Board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/adafruit-metro-328-arduino-uno-compatible-development-board/
The Adafruit Metro 328 development board is an alternative to the Arduino Uno with an equivalent and compatible board design. It’s designed and manufactured by Adafruit. The Metro 328 just like other Arduino Uno clones is also based on the famous Atmega 328P that has been used in various development boards and projects. The Metro […]
Building A Tiny Portable Time-lapse Camera
https://www.electronics-lab.com/building-tiny-portable-time-lapse-camera/
Using a mini spy camera module, Ruiz Brothers had built a tiny portable camera that is used to take time-lapse videos and for all sorts of photo based projects. This project consists of these parts with an estimated cost of $39: Mini Spy Camera Module ($12.50) Adafruit Trinket (3V or 5V MicroUSB Version!) ($6.95) 100mAh […]
Arduino-Based Two-Way Pager
https://www.electronics-lab.com/arduino-based-two-way-pager/
This Arduino-based pager by Mike Schaus will allow you to send and receive real SMS text messages. This messaging device has its own SIM card and phone number. In order to build this project you need the following parts: 1* Arduino UNO 1*Hologram SIM Card w/Device Management 1*Arduino GSM shield V2 1*Adafruit LCD Shield Kit […]
DIY Pixel Art Frame Using Raspberry Pi Zero
https://www.electronics-lab.com/diy-pixel-art-frame-using-raspberry-pi-zero/
Have you ever wanted to get an interesting art frame? That can display and flip photos, scroll text, show the weather or display social media notifications? Frederick Vandenbosch’s new tutorial is for building an art frame using 32×32 LED matrix and Raspberry Pi Zero. Electronics used in this project Raspberry Pi Zero 32×32 RGB LED […]