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Arduino Beginner’s Course Lesson 7– Understanding Interrupts

You can download our e-book ‘Learn Arduino from Scratch’ from this link What are interrupts? Well they interrupt something for sure, precisely they interrupt the main program execution of the CPU. In Arduino we have 2 main functions the setup() and the loop(). Interrupts interrupt code execution in the loop(). But why should we care about interrupts anyway? They are not something to be feared, they make your code cleaner… Read Article →

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ESP8266 Tutorial Part 4 – How to turn your ESP8266 into an Access Point

You can download our e-book ‘Learn Arduino from Scratch’ from this link Last time we hosted a simple web server on an ESP8266. Today we are going a step further, we are going to turn the ESP8266 into an access point (AP). Yes, then you can connect to the ESP8266 via your phone or laptop, or any other device for that matter. As you will see the Arduino core library… Read Article →

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ESP8266 Tutorial Part 3 – Running a simple Web Server

You can download our e-book ‘Learn Arduino’ from this link Last time you learned how to connect the ESP8266 to a WiFi network and download data from a URL. Today we will explore a way to listen to connections just like a server; a web server in fact. The ESP will listen for connections on port 80 and will serve simple pages to connected clients. For this example, a different… Read Article →

Arduino Beginner’s Course Lesson 6– Reading Sensor Data – Temperature TMP36

You can download our e-book ‘Learn Arduino’ from this link During this lesson, we will go through the process of reading sensor data, the TMP36 temperature sensor to be precise. First lets describe the sensor in  more detail. The TMP36 (ebay) has a linear voltage to temperature output meaning there is no error correction to be calculated from our end, the sensor handles it brilliantly on its own. The following… Read Article →

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Arduino 433Mhz RF Wireless Data Transfer

You can download our e-book ‘Learn Arduino’ from this link The most practical and cool way of sharing data from 1 Arduino to another is by far using a radio transmitter and receiver. The simplest form of wireless transmission (I could find) is the 433Mhz ASK modules. They come in pairs, a receiver and a transmitter. They are ridiculously cheap, selling at $1 or less a pair!! These modules provide… Read Article →

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Arduino Beginner’s Course Lesson 5– Installing and Using Libraries

You can download our e-book ‘Learn Arduino’ from this link Libraries are an essential part in the Arduino world. They are what makes Arduino so easy to use. Libraries are written to encapsulate complex functions and expose them as simple function calls to the user. For example to switch a pixel on and off in an LED monitor. This is relatively very complex but, fortunately some folks at Adafruit created… Read Article →

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Arduino Beginner’s Course Lesson 4– Reading and Writing Pin Values

You can download our e-book ‘Learn Arduino’ from this link In previous lessons we used the digitalWrite to write to a pin or more precisely to switch a pin on and off. That is the simplest way of using a pin. In this lesson we will go though reading and writing values to pins both digital and analog. So we need to settle somethings straight before we proceed here. Digital… Read Article →

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Arduino Beginner’s Course Lesson 3– Using the Serial Library

You can download our e-book ‘Learn Arduino’ from this link The Serial library is one of the most widely used library in Arduino development. The serial communication provides a simple communication interface to the PC or any other device that accepts connections over serial protocol. Throughout this course and some of the projects we post, Serial will be used to output either debug data or factual data. Debug data is… Read Article →

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Arduino Beginner’s Course Lesson 2– Introduction to Arduino part 2

You can download our e-book ‘Learn Arduino’ from this link In this lesson we will go through the Arduino language. We’ll cover programming basics and introduce some of the libraries provided by Arduino. The Arduino Language is very similar to C. It’s almost the same language but Arduino provides us with several libraries to make things a bit easier. If you have absolutely no knowledge of any programming language I… Read Article →

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Arduino Beginner’s Course Lesson 1- Introduction to Arduino

You can download our e-book ‘Learn Arduino from Scratch’ from this link This tutorial is the first from a series of tutorials for absolute beginners on Arduino. We at Runtime Projects feel that beginners should not struggle to get started with Arduino. In light of this, we are inviting all our visitors to follow this short course, and if we can help in any way, please use our contact form… Read Article →