Get an Arduino and teach yourself to program Programming is more than just picking a language and framework. Programming means understanding how code interacts with actual computer hardware.

The Arduino IDE is used to write the program that will interact with your Arduino and the devices connected to it. In the Arduino world, such a program is called a sketch, which has its origin in its ...

The system here monitors temperature, humidity, and smoke levels and alerts you if those levels reach a certain point.

He likes to build bare bones Arduino clones rather than sacrifice full dev boards, and instead of programming them via traditional means, he is using his computer’s sound card.

I used an LCD shield to display the current temperature and speed of the fan, but you can use the circuit without the LCD display. You also need to select the transistor by the type of fan that you ...

An Arduino is a popular open-source single-board microcontroller. Learn how to program one and let the possibilities take shape.

This is a wiring diagram that [Soranne] put together when developing a method of programming PIC microcontrollers using an Arduino board. You can see that he takes care of the 12V issue by ...