This article will help you build a simple Arduino-based DCC system. Growing up in the 1980s I was living the dream. I had an ...

There are cheap LCDs available from China, and when plugged into an Arduino, these displays serve as useful interfaces or even shinier baubles for your latest project. [Michael] picked up a few of ...

Assume that you are moving towards a complex microcontroller project bundled with blinkers, beepers, and a display panel. To link a standard 16×2 LCD directly with the microcontroller, for instance ...

An RGB LED module is a versatile lighting component that can produce millions of colours by mixing red, green, and blue light. The RGB LED module used in this ESP32-S3 Box-3 Arduino programming ...

These days, you could be forgiven for thinking driving an LCD from a microcontroller is easy. Cheap displays have proliferated, ready to go on breakout boards with controllers already baked in. Load ...

Learn how to easily adjust the contrast of a 1602 LCD display using Arduino. In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you a simple trick to control the contrast electronically, without relying solely on the ...

The Arduino is a cheap electronics board that allows you to make your own electronics without a ton of coding experience. We love the Arduino, but like any electronics project, coming up with ideas ...

An Arduino can be used to test the life of any battery with less than 5 volts, Boxall says. So, for a quick way to see how much juice your AAA, AA, C, or D batteries have left, build this ...