After I got my Arduino I felt the urge to brush up on my general electronics knowledge. The last time I'd really played with any circuits was back in about 1994 when I was studying my Technology GCSE - which now is quite a long time ago. So I picked up …
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"Ultimate" Arduino Doorbell - part 1 (Hardware)
After a first couple of small Arduino projects I felt the need to make something a bit more useful and permanent.
I had seen Roo Reynolds talking about hacking his doorbell to get it onto Twitter and as our doorbell is a bit rubbish I thought this seemed like a …
Arduino Tone Generator/"Theremin"
So here's another quick Arduino project. It is a "theremin" of sorts, but whereas a real theremin uses antennas to control pitch and volume this on uses a potentiometer for pitch and a push button for volume. The tone is output via a piezo buzzer (as used for generating morse …
My First Arduino Project (Morse Code)
So I finally have an Arduino. I've been hankering after one for a while now, after seeing what Build Brighton and others have been able to do with them. So I was very happy when my better half paid attention to the hints I'd been dropping and got me an …