In this tutorial, I’m going to show you what is the W5100S-EVB-Pico microcontroller board and how to use it. Hands on a W5100S-EVB-Pico board. Let’s discover this microcontroller and its main features. I’ll explain the main features of this IoT board, then show a few usage examples with the basic Ping example and a Mosquitto […]
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a kiosk with Raspberry PI, mounted with a touchscreen display. Welcoming guests in stores or exibitions can require a lot of effort when peak hours are in progress. Usually, informative stands help managing guests with self-service devices, giving the first info and reducing guests
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to connect and setup Arduino Uno with an LM35 temperature sensor, also examining its pinout, working, convention, and working protocol. To keep maintaining rooms, crops, and weather conditions under control, many projects require monitoring environment temperature. Arduino Uno can interface LM35, which is a good temperature
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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to interface an MQ-2 Smoke sensor with Arduino Uno. Results of the smoke sensor are displayed over the serial monitor. When you need to monitor a fire initialization, Smoke Sensor is the best way to detect the percentage of carbon monoxide (CO) in parts per million (PPM). The
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In the last few days, I get hands on an interesting Raspberry PI touchscreen display. I was wishing to use it to test some projects like a retro gaming console and/or a home control display, but using it I thought that it is enough interesting for being worth a dedicated post. The display is the
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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to install libraries with Arduino IDE, listing different methods to achieve this result. Installing libraries with Arduino IDE is important to enhance your code to support external devices with the help of pre-built software defining communication protocols What are Arduino Libraries Arduino libraries are files written
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show how to identify and map ports on Raspberry PI Pico pinout. The Raspberry PI Pico brings to RPI fans a lot of new ports, compared to the computer boards. One of the most appreciated features is that we can have analog ports (needed for many sensor projects). Let’s
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install Transmission client on a headless Raspberry PI to get files downloaded from a low power consumption computer and avoiding to keep other power-hungry PCs on. Even if the streaming services have changed a bit the roles, internet downloads have evolved during the years to
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