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Being an engineer has many advantages. One of them is to be able to think about problems, think of a solution, and then end up making them. The joy of[…]
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Being an engineer has many advantages. One of them is to be able to think about problems, think of a solution, and then end up making them. The joy of[…]
Linear actuators are mechanical devices that transform energy to create straight line motions. A relay, on the other hand, is a switch whose operations are electrical. This article teaches users[…]
Arduino · electronics · Kickstarter · parenting
Now here is a Kickstarter project close to home, and close to heart. A robotics project that is designed to inspire kids to learn both electronics and programming, and more[…]
At this point, you may be thinking, “Why did he call it a ‘portable media player’ in the title, rather than an MP3 player?” However, there’s a good reason behind[…]
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Requirement: To communicate between two Arduino Mega boards, about 7 meters apart, sending 6 bytes of data, and receiving 2 bytes of data back from the other board,[…]
Phase shifting is the process of shifting signals in TIME such that signals that would have been in sync originally, occur at a time / phase after the other. For[…]
To run the TLC5940 with any other values apart from the DEFAULT values, the tlc_config.h file requires to be changed. While it is easy to do so, it may cause[…]
Amazon.co.uk Widgets TLC5940 · The Texas Instruments TLC5940, http://www.ti.com/product/tlc5940, is a 16 Channel LED Driver which can be used to run up to 16 LEDs, at set PWM values. ·[…]
Amazon.co.uk Widgets The Arduino boards, and I believe this applies to all of them, even though I have used only two so far (the UNO and the MEGA), allow for[…]
Follow up to my last article, here is an application which helps run out of sync PWMs. This only works on Arduino Mega, as it requires more control over timers.[…]