I believe what makes Arduino popular is how it makes microcontrollers easier to use. I remember the time when I have to spent hours coding a project and then spend money on programming hardware. Arduino has its limitations, but the platform helps create tons of electronic projects even for non-engineers. …

The ESP32 has become one of my favorite microcontrollers as it's compact, relatively cheap, and contains 125% higher memory than an Arduino UNO.

It’s 2020 and sending SMS is now an old technology. But such technology remains to be a cheap and indispensable way to communicate over long distances. In this article, I will share how I send SMS with the Raspberry Pi.

If you've been using Arduino, you might have used or have heard about the ultrasonic sensor. Most of us use it for level/distance measurement while some use it to detect an obstacle in front. What most of us don’t know is that there is an underlying flaw with the ultrasonic …

Introduction This week’s Arduino project is a classic one and ideal for beginners. Here I will be showing how to build a simple clap switch for an RGB LED strip. Basically, a microphone captures the sound of the clap and converts it to a voltage. The Arduino processes that voltage …

The MQ-135 “air quality” sensor is part of the MQ series of gas sensors that uses a chemical-sensitive element. The resistance of such elements varies when exposed to certain gases. The MQ-135 is sensitive to multiple gases including Benzene, Acetone, Alcohol, and Ammonium.

Flame sensors are found from the simplest gas stoves to huge industrial plants. There are different types of fire sensors -- some cheap, some expensive. Yet they’re all built for one single purpose: detect fire. In this article, I will guide you on how to build a flame sensor with …

Last time, I showed you how to setup the ESP32 development board with the Arduino programming environment. This time, I will be building a simple ESP32 web server where data from a sensor is displayed on a web page.

The ESP32 expands the capabilities of the popular ESP8266 WiFi microcontroller by using a 32-bit microprocessor, and adding Bluetooth 4.2 among others.  What possible projects can we build using this device? We will find out as we start our series for the ESP32.

Ever since I wrote about timer interrupts, a number of readers have asked me on how to generate a 16-bit pulse width modulation (PWM) signal with Arduino. Well, here it is.