There is a huge variety of shields that are available which can be stacked on top of an Arduino. Often there are more than one manufacturer for a single type of shield itself. In a way this is good, because as a user you are going to have multiple options. But it becomes a problem […]
Texas Instruments, low cost evaluation board for the ARM Cortex M4F based microcontrollers is available for ordering now. And can you guess the price? It is just $5. Yes it is just $5 😉 ARM Cortex M4F microcontroller The main highlight of the Stellaris LaunchPad is its microcontroller. The LaunchPad comes with the surface mount […]
In my earlier article where I showed how you can access YQL in Arduino, I mentioned that I wrote a quick and dirty function to do URLEncoding (percent encoding) in Arduino. While writing that function, I found a nice little trick about URL Encoding and thought of writing about it here. At first, I just […]
I guess most of you would by now, know what is JSON. It is a data format to represent structured data like XML, but is very small and has native support in JavaScript. Libraries are available in various languages for parsing JSON. But I was stunned when I read about aJson Arduino library. The author […]
While writing the tutorial on how to parse JSON in Arduino, I used a sample JSON response that I got from YQL. After writing the tutorial, it struck me that I can in fact make Arduino to directly query the YQL server to get the response. I immediately dusted off my Ethernet shield and tried […]
In the previous tutorial, I talked about how to get started with hardware programming and also gave links to brush up your electronic skills. In this article, I will talk about the tutorials/sites I used while learning Arduino (my favorite board and the main reason why I got interested into hardware programming) and then towards […]
People who are not from electronics background generally find it hard sometimes to get started with hardware programming, since it requires some basic understanding of electronic concepts. A basic understanding of different electronic components like resistors, capacitors, batteries etc., together with some fundamental concepts like voltage, current, Ohm’s law etc., will drastically help you to […]
Hello everyone, welcome to HardwareFun, a place where fun meets hardware 🙂 I was a software programmer all throughout my life, who recently got introduced to the world of electronics and hardware programming. After playing around with it for sometime I realized that is a very satisfying hobby. It is really a great feeling to […]
