Posts about Arduinos

When working with electronics, one will very often come across working with digital readings. Digital read (and write) pins are available on many microcontrollers and is one of the simpler pins to work with. More…

Categories Electronics

Tags ArduinoESP microcontrollerGPIORaspberry PiTTLdigital readelectronicsmicrocontrollers

The Arduino IDE is free software used for writing and uploading programming code to Arduino microcontrollers. Here we show how to install it on a Raspberry Pi. More…

Categories Raspberry Pi

Tags ArduinoArduino IDEArduino programming languageIDELinuxRaspberry PiRaspbianelectronicsmicrocontrollers

Magnetic door sensors, also called reed switches, are sensors that use a magnet to establish whether a door is open or closed. More…

Categories Electronics

Tags ArduinoSwitchesdigital readelectronic moduleelectronicshome automationmagnetic door sensors

This post will explain how to get up and running with the 433MHz RF Transmitter Receiver modules to send radio frequency (RF) signal-codes from a transmitter device to a Raspberry Pi. More…

Categories Raspberry Pi

Tags 433MHz RFArduinoGPIORC SwitchRaspberry Pidigital readdigital writeelectronic moduleelectronicshome automationwireless communicationwiringPi

This post introduces the GL5537 LDR Photo Sensitive Resistor unit that can be used to detect the intensity of light. More…

Categories Electronics

Tags ArduinoGL5537 LDR Photo Sensitive Resistoranalog readelectronicshome automationlight intensityphoto sensitive resistorspecs