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Arduino Contest Update and Expert Status

The element14 Arduino contest that I announced a few weeks ago has had its deadline extended!  You now have an extra two weeks to get your projects in.  Make sure you post them in the element14 Arduino group, and as a response to my youtube video by February 14th!  It’s[…]

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Tutorial 4 for Arduino: Analog Inputs

This tutorial was featured on the official Arduino blog on 3/9/2011 This week is all about analog inputs for the arduino.  I’ll show you how you can use a voltage divider circuit (see episode 3) and a variable resistor to make an analog sensor.  We’ll also use a Sharp IR[…]

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EE Basics in Tutorial 3 for Arduino

This tutorial was featured on the official Arduino blog on 3/9/2011 In this week’s arduino tutorial, we take a bit of a detour and focus on some key elements of electrical engineering design that we’ll be using in future episodes.  Included amongst these topics is Ohm’s Law, current-limiting resistors, pull-down[…]

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Tutorial Series for Arduino: It begins.

This video was featured on the Adafruit Blog on 01/06/11 This tutorial was featured on the official Arduino blog on 3/9/2011 This video was featured on the DIYFilm Blog on 03/19/11 Thanks to a generous sponsorship from element14, I’m putting together a tutorial series on using the arduino microcontroller platform! […]

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