Recently in Maker Faire Rome, Arduino announced two new Linux based Arduino boards – Galileo in collaboration with Intel (Yes 😉 ) and Arduino TRE in collaboration with Texas Instruments (the company behind BeagleBoard). Together with Arduino Yun, now the total number of official Arduino Linux based boards is 2. Intel Galileo This board is […]
Today, I conducted a small hands-on workshop in Arduino at work. We had a bunch of Arduinos and kits available and everyone was able to try it out themselves. Slides I have uploaded the slides I used for my talk to my slideshare account. You can download the slides or view them below. You can […]
After several months of development, I am proud to announce v1.0.0 of Arduino Makefile. What is Arduino Makefile? It is a set of makefiles for Arduino, that allows you to compile and flash code into Arduinos and also communicate with it through Serial all using the makefile, without opening up the Arduino IDE. This is […]
The first question people ask me these days when I talk about either Raspberry Pi or Arduino is what is the difference between them. This was one of the prominent question that people asked me during my recent PyCon talk and Maker Party presentation. Even though both Raspberry Pi and Arduino are created to solve […]
Mozilla India is conducting a Maker Party today at Jaaga and I going to conducting a workshop there. Maker Party ‘Maker Party: Bangalore 2013’ is a Mozilla Hive India initiative in an attempt to map and empower a community of educators and creative people who share a passion to innovate, evolve and change the learning […]
I had a bunch of ATmega 16A and ATtiny 85 microcontrollers lying around and I was trying to find a way to program them using Arduino code. There are two main reasons, why I wanted to use Arduino code. The first reason was to use the many built-in functions like digitalWrite, digitalRead etc. And the […]
One of the main reasons why Arduino is very popular with beginners is that it is completely self-contained which makes it very easy to use. Once you have an Arduino board, all you have to do is to download the software and within minutes you can make your first led blink. The software has everything […]
This is part 4 of my “Building Robots using Arduino” tutorial series, explaining how you can create robots using Arduino. In this article we will see how we can control the speed of the DC motor using Arduino. Recap Last week, I explained how we can control the direction of DC motors using the H-Bridge […]
This is part 3 of my “Building Robots using Arduino” tutorial series, explaining how you can create robots using Arduino. In this article, I will introduce the H-bridge IC L293D and we will also see how we can use it to control the speed of the motor. Recap Last week, I introduced DC Motors and […]
This is part 2 of my “Building Robots using Arduino” tutorial series, explaining how you can create robots using Arduino. In this article, I will introduce DC motors and how to use them. Types of Motors If you look at the Wikipedia page of DC motors, you will realize that there are different types of […]
