Hands-on with Arduino Create and Arduino IoT
This past weekend Arduino fans celebrated Arduino and Genuino Day 2016. In classrooms, maker spaces, and impromptu meet-ups around the world enginerds got together to learn and …
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How to Turn Your Arduino Prototype Into a Manufacturable Product
This week’s post is from my friend John Teel. I asked him to help answer a common question I receive: " How do you make an Arduino project into a product?" His experience as an …
Read MoreMQTT Tutorial for Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and ESP8266
This week’s MQTT Tutorial connects a Raspberry Pi, ESP8266 (or Arduino), and a PC together. Remember last week’s post provided an overview of message brokers and MQTT. We learned …
Read MoreMQTT Introduction and Tutorial Part One
MQTT is an easy way for Internet of Things (IoT) devices to communicate with each other. This light-weight protocol can be used with a simple 8-bit Arduino to a Raspberry Pi to a …
Read MoreMicrocontroller state machine with enum tutorial
Flag variables are great, and totally not evil, when you just have two states: ON or OFF. What about when you have multiple states? Is there an option better than creating multiple …
Read MoreFlag variables are not evil (for Microcontrollers)
Getting programming questions answered on the internet can be problematic. Programmers love to have opinions, stick to those ideas, and express them to you even when their opinion …
Read MoreWhich Arduino Starter Kit is the Best?
The other day my friend called me up. He told me how much he missed building circuits and wanted to start again with the Arduino. So he asked me “which Arduino starter kit is the …
Read MorePushbutton and Flashing LED tutorial with millis()
How to blink (or flash) a LED without delay() and detect button pushes One of the limitations of the delay() function is that nothing else can really be done. This presents a …
Read MoreCheck-out these seven new features in the Arduino 1.6 release
The (official) Arduino team has finally released the 1.6 version of the Arduino software. After being in the making for over 2 years, this release is an exciting one! 1.6 marks the …
Read MoreAn example of when comments would have helped
What was one of the first things you were taught, when learning to program? “Comment Your Code!” And of course, like all programming students, you ignored that advice. Or, if you …
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