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Category Archives: Arduino
Playing Arduboy games on a micro:bit
There are lots of little machines and platforms for making and playing your own games now; various colour LCD MakeCode Arcade machines, the Arduino-based Arduboy which uses a tiny but crisp black and white OLED display as well as the … Continue reading
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Arduino composite video out using only 3 resistors
It’s supposed to be easy – 2 or 3 resistors and you can get your Arduino micro controller to produce low-resolution black and white composite video. Well, it wasn’t for me. It took me hours to get it working, but … Continue reading
50p reverse LED Arduino theremin
Okay, it’s not exactly musical, but this is a pretty cool quick Arduino project you can make with: an LED a piezo buzzer er, that’s it Okay, you need an Arduino, but it doesn’t even use a resistor. I used … Continue reading
Little Box of Christmas
A good while ago, I made The Little Box of Poems. This is a box that prints a random poem every time you push a big red button. Inside is an Arduino microcontroller and a thermal till roll printer, and … Continue reading
Making beautiful music with a MakeyMakey
The MakeyMakey is a gizmo that allows you to control computers by touching anything that conducts a small amount of electricity: PlayDoh, fruit, vegetables, even graphite pencil. As you may know, I’ve been playing tunes on potatoes and making Scratch … Continue reading