The DS18B20 is a nice little temperature sensor that can be used in various simple projects.  This part uses the 1 wire bus and you can connect multiple sensors up to…

Another Arduino example, mainly again to demonstrate generating random numbers with a random seed. In this case we want a number between 0 and 16. Code /* Control lines */…

Many moons ago I used to use the Til311 hexadecimal display quite frequently, it used to be a useful part to start experimenting building  basic microcontroller examples. As you can…

Here are some examples using the DIY LED baord we discussed earlier at http://www.getmicros.net/diy-led-board.php   Cycle all LEDs const int Led1 = 2; const int Led2 = 3; const int Led3…

One of the best thing you can do when learning to create sketches is to create a custom LED board. Using this you can create many simple examples to help…

Another example using the LCD 4484s shield, this time I wanted a character on the display in a random location. This example allows us to look at generating random numbers.…

This is another example using the LCD4484 shield, this time put a character on the screen and then move it across the screen. Basic stuff but for beginners playing with…

This was another shield that grabbed my attention, this LCD was used on older nokia phones. Its fairly low cost and is a 48×48 display. It is able to display…

This example was based on an Arduino UNO and a kit I purchased from Amazon UK which contained various LCD displays, sadly the instructions were not great and I couldn’t…

If you are a .Net developer and wanted to get into Arduino then the Netduino is what you need. The hardware is generally pin compatible with the arduino. Here is…