Arduino is an easy-to-use development board for hobbyists, tinkerers, and professionals. To build prototypes, for instance.
It’s probably the easiest way to learn microcontrollers these days. Therefore, many use it as a tool to teach kids about coding and electronics.
You can build projects like a robot or an automatic cat door. Even if you have no experience from before.
On this page, you’ll find a library of tutorials, projects, and other resources to help you get started and build cool Arduino projects on your own.
I built this Arduino radar project, where I control the brightness of an LED with my breath. In this tutorial, I will show you exactly how to do it.
It was an experiment to get the XeThru radar to work with Arduino. I plan to expand on this later and build more useful applications.
And I will share with you how to connect the hardware, and how to create the Arduino code.
Just to be clear: This is not a sonar pretending to be a radar. This is a radar. With electromagnetic waves.
In this tutorial, I am going to show you exactly how to make an Arduino remote control. You can use this project to combine functions from different remote controls and make your super-awesome dream remote control!
If you are not familiar with Arduino, check out What is Arduino and Where to start?
A remote control sends out an infrared (IR) code when you push a button. The gadget you point the remote control at will receive this IR code. To make your own Arduino remote control, you need to first copy the IR code from an existing remote control using an IR receiver.
To create our remote control we need to:
We will use these components for our Arduino project:
If you haven’t started Arduino programming yet, it’s about time. The Arduino is a microcontroller board originally made for Interaction Design students in Italy. It was specifically developed to make it easy to start programming microcontrollers – even if you have no technical background.
In this Arduino shield tutorial, I will show you how to create a 4×4 LED matrix Arduino shield. You can make any shield you want using this method.
The tutorial consists of three videos: