This is tutorial number 1 from our series of Arduino tutorials and in this part I will talk about blinking an LED using the one already available on the Arduino Uno board or using an external LED to ...

The creative adventures with ATtiny series microcontroller are awesome if you know how to play them. ATtinys — especially the ATtiny85s — are all around us, and by using one, we can shrink the size of ...

You know how it is. You’ve got that new project running, and while it doesn’t consume much power, it also doesn’t give much indication of whether it’s functioning or just sitting there with a dead ...

Learn how to control and blink multiple LEDs using the MAX7219 driver with Arduino. A simple guide for beginners in electronics and coding. #Arduino #MAX7219 #LEDProjects #ElectronicsTutorial ...

Pulse Width Modulation is definitely the preferred method of dimming an LED with a microcontroller, but we were interested in hearing about a different method called Binary Code Modulation. BCM does ...

Makers, developers and hobbyists that enjoy creating projects using the Arduino platform may be interested in a new Arduino prototyping tool in the form of the Lumioto. The Lumioto has been created by ...

An earlier Idea For Design (“Hardware-Based LED Blinking Control Eliminates Software Overhead,” Sept. 27, 2007, p. 52) described a very interesting way to offload the software overhead required for a ...