The following project was designed for a need: with my friend Davide I’m working on a model railway (Il Plastico di Davide e Luca): we needed to know how much current it uses to size our power supplies (booster)… The sensor For current measurement, I used ACS712 sensor from Allegro MicroSystems (here’s its datasheet). You can find…
In this article, I’m going to show you how to receive data from serial port, plot them in a chart and send to Pachube.
Sometimes you need to use a device – found in a project downloaded from Internet – in one of your projects; here’s how to do it in Eagle:
ArduRGB it’s a simple project to show how to drive an RGB led with Arduino. In the GitHub repository you can find the Arduino sketch and a sample program written in C# and in the forum you can ask for informations,requests… [highlight color=”yellow”]Warning: the program described below is designed for a common cathod led, if you need to use…
Among the many online services for PCB manufacturing, I was impressed by the SeeedStudio‘s offering: they aggregate many orders to offer professional service at a very competitive price. I tried out the service ordering 10 PCBs, maximum size 5x5cm, with a price of 9.90$ + 3.52$ for shipping (to Italy) – less then 10 euro. SeeedStudio…