This homemade parking sensor was developed using an Arduino, ultrasonic range finder and some other components to guide vehicle parking. One of the main materials used is the Arduino duemilanove which ...

You would have probably read about the SONAR that’s used in ships. By taking the same concept into a small form factor we get a distance sensor. This sensor is available in multiple variants and I’ll ...

The ArduIMU Quadcopter is a DIY Arduino helicopter that has been ingeniously designed to avoid objects and not bump into things. This innovative helicopter features four rotors and is equipped with ...

Turbidity is an internationally recognized criterion for assessing drinking water quality, and a Turbidity Meter is an optoelectronic instrument that assesses turbidity by measuring the scattering of ...

Instructables user benhur.goncalves has published a new project that provides details on how to create your very own DIY Arduino watch that is equipped with a number of useful features that include ...

Is your heaving pile of electronic parts shrinking by the day as you finish old back-burnered projects and come up with new ones? Try an old pastime that never gets old: rolling your own sensors using ...

Over the last decade, the open-source movement has not only transformed the world of software, but also catalyzed a sweeping revolution in hardware tinkering. At the heart of this shift lies a ...

Some of the best DIY projects use microcontrollers or cheap single board computers to automate awesome stuff. But Between the Arduino, the Raspberry Pi, and the BeagleBone, it's hard to figure out ...

The BME280 sensor was easier to set up, as it communicates over the I2C serial protocol. This means that we only needed to connect power, ground and two communication wires to the sensor.