In this video I'll be showing you how you can control the contrast and the back light brightness of a 1602 LCD display with just the Arduino. The contrast is typically adjusted with a variable ...

Hello Hackers! Today we have a really interesting topic. Searching the internet, I didn't find any simple solution on "How to read data from car parking sensors," so I decided to write a short and ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Omnilux Men LED face mask . If you’re in pursuit of ageless, blemish-free and brighter looking skin, an LED face mask might be the ...

Maybe it’s just us, but isn’t it kind of amazing that in a world of pretty darn realistic games, PONG is still thrilling to play? This 1D implementation by [newsonator] is about as exciting as it gets ...

How a single LED driver can support buck, boost, and buck-boost topologies. Design details for each topology type. How such drivers work in automotive and machine-vision designs. The breadth of LED ...

The HV9931 is a fixed-frequency, pulse-width-modulated (PWM), offline LED driver IC with built-in power factor correction (PFC). It is designed to control an LED lamp drive using a proprietary ...

Whether you’re an embedded systems vet, high school scientist, or a curious person, you need to start your electronic explorations somewhere. If the manual isn’t enough, then check out this beginner’s ...

Running a program on an Arduino is easy, but have you tried doing it with a Pi? The Raspberry Pi is powerful enough to be a standalone computer and is also good enough to program a microcontroller.