Creating music for the Arduino is simple – just use the tone() library – but it truthfully doesn’t sound that great. That’s because this library is monophonic, making chords difficult or at the very ...

As promised in the first part of this article, now it is time to see in detail how we can use the Alphanumeric LCD Display in our Arduino sketches. The idea beside this project is to give a simple ...

This installment of Embed with Elliot begins with a crazy rant. If you want to read the next couple of paragraphs out loud to yourself with something like an American-accented Dave-Jones-of-EEVBlog ...

Rob Cai has used and Arduino Uno development Board together with an old VGA display to create an awesome digital representation of the iconic Etch-a-Sketch mechanical drawing toy invented by André ...

I am still receiving many requests to post an Arduino Sound Machine project. I think now is the right time to prepare a primer for beginners. First, keep your expectations low, as I don’t have ...

There are many ways to do this, but on the Intel® Edison board, I found that the easiest way is using the /etc/init.d directory. If this is your first time using init.d for start-up scripts, you’re ...

Patrick McCabe's latest creation is a delightfully ironic combination of high-tech and low-tech that is sure to please. And just what exactly is this inventive tour de force? Okay, if you've read the ...

Before I start talking about this really cool thing called Arduino (Italian for "good friend"), let me say a few things about the fascinating subject of physical computing. Physical computing has been ...

Hacking around with hardware and cooking up homemade gadgets... Arduino? That sounds exotic. Is it a holiday resort on the Italian Riviera? Well, there is an Italian connection - the founders of ...