I recently built a DIY electronic game kit. It has 4 games: tetris, snake, plane and racing. This is the fanciest electronics DIY kit in our catalog. A do-it-yourself arcade video game! The 8 x 16 dot matrix display is of course not up-to-date, in the age of 4k UHD. But it is a lot…
It is a simple LDR based ‘Happy Birthday To You’ music player. When you block the light falling on the LDR, the kit stops playing the music. There are 18 flashing LEDs and the buzzer plays “Happy Birthday to You” song. A photoresistor or LDR works here as the photosensitive element. The jumpers are used…
This is yet another heart-shaped multicolor LED flasher DIY kit. The soldering process is pretty straight forward. The silkscreen label should guide you through soldering. It takes around half an hour to build the kit and basic soldering skill is enough to build it.
As stated on the title, in this tutorial, we will rotate a motor in both directions. To achieve this, we can use a switch or the serial monitor. We will need an integrated circuit chip (IC), called H-Bridge, we will use a L293NE or SN754410 chip for our experiment.
In this tutorial will use a rain sensor and we will turn on an LED if it is raining. In this case we used an LED but a buzzer can be also be used (see previous tutorials). This sketch will allow us to send a number on the serial port which is the value of…
This is an LED flasher kit based on NE555 and 74HC595. The LEDs on this kit scroll and give a water flowing effect. The bistable circuit formed by NE555 and 74HC595 generates an oscillating pulse and adjusting the value of RP changes the oscillating frequency so that the flowing speed of the LEDs can be…
In this tutorial, we will learn to connect and use the RTC (Real Time Clock) module to display date and time on the 16×2 LCD display. DS1307 is called the Maxim-Dallas module for Arduino with which it allows us to have a precise system clock.
In this tutorial, will learn to use our Arduino board to display the temperature and humidity on the 16×2 LCD display using a DHT-11 sensor. For this project, you need to download the DHT11 library. You can download the library from this page. A long time ago, we had published a similar article. Please check…
This is a simple traffic light project. It is a very easy project to accomplish and serves as a lesson to learn two basic components in electronics, LEDs, and resistors. Components required: D1 D6 2 Red LED D2 D5 2 Yellow LED D3 D4 2 Green LED R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 6 220…
In this tutorial, we will learn to use a 16×2 LCD with Arduino. The following image shows the pinout of 16×2 LCD. Components required for this project: Name Quantity Component U1 1 LCD 16 x 2 R1 1 Potentiometer 10k U2 1 Arduino Uno R3 R2 1 220 Ω Resistor
In this tutorial, we will create a sketch in which the RGB LED emits only the green light that turns on and off gradually. In the second example, you will see that red, green and blue lights also turn on and off gradually. This project is suitable for school students and beginners. For this experiment,…
In this tutorial, we will use the digitalRead function and learn how to read a digital pin. In our case, the digital sensor that will be read will be a common button/reset tactile switch that when pressed will turn on the LED. Components required: Name Quantity Component U1 1 Arduino Uno R3 D1 1 Green…
In this tutorial, we will use a servo and a potentiometer to make the servo motor change its position according to the given value given by the potentiometer. Components used in this project: Name Quantity Component U1 1 Arduino Uno R3 Rpot1 1 10 kΩ, Potentiometer M1 1 Servo Arduino Sketch:
It’s a simple project to build a stereo preamplifier using electret microphones and the cheap operational amplifier LM358. In the past, we have made few projects comprising LM358, you can check them here. This project uses the dual-channel operational amplifier LM358. Each channel is used to increase the signal of one electret microphone and it…
This is just a simple Arduino project comprising Arduino, LM35, and I2C LCD. It displays the room temperature on the I2C LCD and the serial monitor. The project is suitable for beginners and can be used for school projects. In the past we have done several projects using LCD and LM35, please check the projects…
This is a simple motion sensor project using Arduino. A 220V AC lamp is connected to a 5V relay and the relay is activated once the motion sensor senses motion and sends a signal to the Arduino. List of materials Arduino Uno (Â Rev 3Â ) Sensor (Â PIRÂ )Â Â HC-SR501 Keyes SRD-05VDC-SL-C Relay Module or any 5V relay module…
In this tutorial, we will learn how to use a servo motor. A Servo is a motor capable of making maximum rotations of 270° and is widely used in robotics and modeling. It requires a library (<Servo.h>) that is already installed on the Arduino IDE software. In this tutorial, we will vary the position of…
In this project, we will learn to experiment with LDR and a buzzer. The output of this experiment is sound with different frequencies that are produced depending upon the light falling on the LDR/photoresistor. STEPS – Connect the negative black wire of the buzzer to pin GROUND and the black positive to the digital pin…
In this tutorial, we will learn to use a potentiometer with Arduino. It allows us to change its value by turning a small knob, the analog value read by Arduino will enable us to do our flashing of the LED depending on the value read. Steps: -Connect the LED as shown on the image. -Connect…
The photoresistor or LDR is a resistor that varies its value according to the light falling on it and therefore it can be used with Arduino to create innovative and more complex projects. Connect the LED and LDR to Arduino as shown on the image. List of components: U1 1 Arduino Uno R3 R1 1…
