One of the first projects that most people do on an Arduino is to light up or flash an LED. It seems ultra-simple because it ...

With a little ingenuity and a few parts you can easily pick up on Amazon, you can build your own smart garbage can. We'll ...

An Arduino is a popular open-source single-board microcontroller. Learn how to program one and let the possibilities take shape. By The Big Book Of Hacks Published Jan 10, 2013 3:00 AM EST Get the ...

Although there are other ways to do this, [Rod] has decided to write up his method of using two Arduinos and the I2C protocol to expand an Arduino’s IO capacity. As seen in the picture above, you’ll ...

Alarm systems are complicated affairs. However, if you’re just looking to catch a sandwich thief at work or a cat spilling over all you water bottles, then Make shows you how to build an alarm system ...

Up until the last few years, heat-sensing cameras — think Predator vision — were a thing that pretty much only the Army and the super rich got to play with. Then FLiR figured out how to make the ...

With all of the cool features on the Raspberry Pi, it is somewhat notable that it lacks a power button. In a simple setup, the only way to cut power to the tiny computer is to physically remove the ...