Yun based Electricity Monitor with Cloud Support / Temboo and Google Drive
This Instructable shows how to make an Electricity Monitor for your home that utilises some of the key capabilities of the Arduino Yun that make it an Ideal choice for Cloud Enabled sensor projects...
View ArticleArduino Yun Messager
Consisting of an Arduino side and a Linux (Linio) side, the Yun is a great platform for Wi-Fi or Web enabled Arduino projects. In this project I'll show you how to make a very simple Yun-Messager that...
View ArticleSmart Home Thermostat
These days we hear a lot about the Internet of Things and how Smart Devices will be Internet enabled to do cool things and make our lives better. Smart Thermostats have the capability to save a lot of...
View ArticleAdd Amazon Echo Voice Control to You Smart Device
Many internet devices, including the Particle Photon used in my Smart Thermostat, use REST as a central tenet of the cloud infastructure. So for example, if you want to query the temperature...
View ArticleHow to Use a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)
Lots of projects use a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) to sense light levels but don't really focus on how they work. This project shows you how to use a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) to sense light...
View ArticleHow to Use an RGB LED
Using an RGB LED you can cycle through all colours. Useful to make, Mood Lamp, expressive robot or cool light effects. But to simply set the colour (Hue) can be a little tricky because you need to...
View ArticleReliable Frequency Detection Using DSP Techniques
Accurate Frequency Detection is important for many projects such as Guitar/Piano Tuners, Vibration Analyzers, Heartrate Monitors, MEMs Sensor Analysis and Laboratory Instruments. There have been many...
View ArticlePlotting Data From Arduino
Arduino doesn't have much in terms of debug and analysis capability built in, so it can be very useful to have a facility to plot data that's sent from Arduino over the Serial Port. There are several...
View ArticleArduino Esplora Flight Simulator
Control the Flight Simulator option of Google Earth using the Accelerometer of the Arduino Esplora. Fly virtually around the world; tilting the Accelerometer forward, back, left and right to control...
View ArticleArduino Guitar Tuner Using DSP Techniques
A while ago I wrote an article on Reliable Frequency Detection Using DSP Techniques. I mentioned at the time that this is an ideal basis for designing your own Arduino based guitar tuner. In real life,...
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