Arduino Board Includes a USB-C Port, LDR, Power Switch, and Many Other Features


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Designed by Polia31, the Axiometa Spark is a Custom Arduino Board with all the most used features that are used in everyday projects. Features of this custom Arduino board include a USB-C port, triple rows of pin headers for easy connections, an interrupt-supported user button, and additional I2C ports. Additionally, it has a light-dependent resistor (LDR), […]

Arduino Compatible programmable universal IR blaster


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Universal remote controls are very cool devices that can be programmed to operate various brands of one or more types of electronic devices. You can point the universal remote control to any device and control it with buttons available on the remote. Low-end remote controls can control few appliances of the same brand, but high-end […]

Glo – Multiple LED strip controller that is Arduino-compatible


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Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are simple components that are used as visual indicators or LED lighting. Controlling just one strip of LEDs with an Arduino Uno and the likes is not so much of a big deal for most embedded designers but installing and controlling multiple strips of LEDs, especially where they’ll be jostled around, can […]

The Launchpad – A $2 Arduino Nano alternative


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Boards like the Arduino and Raspberry Pi have their origins, deep in education, either maker education as a way for people to express themselves (Arduino) or an affordable and portable way for people to learn about computers and programming (Raspberry Pi). The culture of creating solutions targetted at beginners, is one that is quickly fading […]

Turn Your Arduino to a UPDI Programmer


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ATtiny series of microcontrollers have, in recent times, been on the receiving end of a renewed love from the community. The processing power and new features, packed into the tiny form factor which houses the new chips have been a major contributor to their adoption, however,  one other major contributor is the existence of tools […]

A new ATMega328p board with onboard OLED Display


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Made popular by the Arduino based on it, the Atmega328p has become one of the most popular microcontrollers around, thanks to the ease with which it can be programmed using the Arduino IDE. Either as a direct clone of Arduino boards like Uno and Nano or as a new board with an entirely different form […]

Top 10 Popular Microcontrollers Among Makers


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At the heart of any embedded electronics device, either on a DIY or professional product level is a microcontroller. They run the codes/firmware that helps developers obtain inputs from sensors and tie it to actions executed through actuators. While they are usually developed as general-purpose components, MCUs are built with certain features and functionalities that […]

A DIY Electronic load for DC-DC converter characterization


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A project by reivax-boucoi: The heart of the system is an Atmel ATmega328P AVR microcontroller with 32kB of Flash and 2k of RAM running at a whopping 16MHz. It interfaces an I2C 12bit DAC (the MCP47FEB21A1) and the LTC2992 dual power monitor chip. The USB serial interface uses the MCP2221A bridge. The display is a […]

All-in-one Sentsor Core 328P development board is optimized for data logging


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As SENTSOR moves up to offer custom development services for data needs in research and industry, the company has also provided open-source hardware products whose sources can easily be freely accessed and modified to open up as many opportunities as possible. “How often do you face the need for data collection/datalogging, industrial monitoring equipment, Power, […]

New Sensor Board from Parametric Circuits provides a whole new level of Integration


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Sensor boards are manufactured to provide engineers with the ideal platform for developing projects and designs that detect or measure temperature, pressure, humidity, color, motion, and even physical location. They offer necessary support circuitry that allows for the full utilization of sensors for demonstration and evaluation. While there’s been a wide range of available sensor […]