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How To Control Arduino Pins Through Ethernet
If you are short on money and cannot afford a Raspberry Pi for your Internet Of Things project you can use the Arduino with an ethernet shield to control the pins and read the values Follow this short tutorial to create a project to control a few LED’s with the GPIO pins and read Analog…
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What are Arduino Shields ?
A great addition to the Arduino project was the introduction of Arduino Shields which are directly mountable on an Arduino board, providing extra functionality such as wireless communication, ethernet or servo/stepper motor control. The possibilities of the hardware are just limitless and this adds to the increased functionality with the Arduino’s. The functionality directly depends…
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Getting Started with Arduino
Welcome to the amazing world of Arduino! Started by students at the Design Institute of Ivrea, Italy, in 2005, Arduino has sparked innovation across all ages. From the sheer fun of making an LED blink once per second to running a fully working 3D printer to powering a small satellite, what you can do with…
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The Man Who Designed PlayStation 4
Tetsu Sumii is usually a name you wouldn’t normally hear. Sony gave a shout out to him on their blog. The man who designed the PlayStation 4. “I just wanted to make a simple object for the living room”, he says. “Sometimes products are a little too exaggerated. It should be simple. That’s my thinking.”…