This was my very first arduino project. Its great for beginners. Fade the color or the lights my moving your hands near it. It fades from a pretty purple blue to a firey red-orange. Its was SUPER easy to build, not to hard to write the code, and its really impresses people! I gave it …
Magic Light (Capacitance Sensor, First Arduino Project) Read More »
In this Arduino UNO tutorial, we are going to use a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) to create a simple childrens bedroom nightlight which turns on automatically when it gets dark and turns off when it gets light. An LDR’s resistance changes depending upon the amount of light hitting the sensor. For the LDR we are …
There are many wireless communication options when connecting Arduino boards. One of the most popular ones is the Wi-Fi. It works well at small distances, and around Wi-Fi hotspots, however when the modules need to connect over long distance at areas where Internet is not present, Wi-Fi is not an option. Luckily there is a great and …
Long Distance Remote Light Sensor With RFM95W/RFM98W LoRa Using Arduino Read More »
I’m not really sure why, but proximity sensors are some of my favorite things in the sensor world. Maybe because there are so many of them? Who knows. Whatever the reason, the VCNL4000 is another proximity sensor that caught my eye, so I picked one up from Sparkfun on this handy breakout board. The VCNL4000 looks like it …
A year ago we had an article called Sensing color with the ADJD-S371. Well the ADJD-S371 is long gone, and its replacement is the ADJD-S311 (breakout board available from sparkfun). It is basically the same all around, so without shame, I will be copying a lot of that article, because… Why reinvent the wheel? A few things you …
In past tutorials, we have covered temperature, color, time, direction, but never distance or proximity. I think I strayed away from this because most of the lower cost proximity sensors are pretty drop-dead-simple to use and thought it might not be that useful. But the time has come, I’m writing about some distance/proximity sensors. While …
Are we getting close? Proximity Sensors + Arduino Read More »
Real time monitoring variables like temperature, X-Y-Z acceleration, sound and light intensity for baby-pram. Things used in this project Hardware components MMA7260 × 1 LM92 × 1 Breadboard (generic) × 1 Electret microphone × 1 Arduino MKR1000 × 1 max4236 × 1 Photocell × 1 Software apps and online services ThingSpeak API Story It is …
I will describe a fun and easy way to build your own sound expression MIDI enabled glove without expending lot’s of money on MIDI Interfaces or expensive sensors. Feel free to contact me directly by mail if you like it or have suggestions. This project …
Drumming MIDI Glove Using Arduino and Light Sensors Read More »
The purpose of this instructable is to outline our development of this bat in the cave as well as provide instructions and tips for future engineers hoping to complete a similar project or use components of our project in theirs. The goal of this project was to create an diarama that could educate people. The …
As a result of the questions from lekirst on this ible of my hand: LED-as-lightsensor-on-the-arduino/ and the cleaner code made by hansc44 at: Arduino-Use-LED-as-a-light-sensor/ it was time to come with a better Ible. So here it is. (I didn’t solve lekirst’s problems yet so she probably is open for suggestions) What is the idea? You might know that a LED emits light …
