Even when we clean, because of laziness or lack of time, we often throw all waste into the same bin without separating ...

The Turtle Bot is one of the classics for Arduino tinkering. The YouTuber UncleStem has built it seven times larger – and it works. The hobbyist and YouTuber UncleStem has built the often-replicated ...

Arduino driver for the Pixart PMW3901 optical flow sensor. The driver is developed to support the Bitcraze Flow Breakout board. It communicates with the sensor using SPI. The library is using the ...

When you think of Arduino projects, your mind likely goes straight to RFID door locks, weather sensors, or automated plant watering systems. While these are undeniably pretty cool projects, you might ...

The sensor continuously sends out infrared light and measures how much of that light is reflected. When a reflective object is within its set detection range, it returns a low signal. The Arduino ...

The increasing age of petroleum pipeline infrastructure poses significant risks to safety, operational efficiency, and the environment. Defects such as cracks, corrosion, joint displacement, and ...

The SparkFun Ultrasonic Distance Sensor - TCT40 (sen-24805) a user-friendly upgrade to the popular HC-SR04 sensor, offers non-contact distance measurement from 2cm to 400cm with an accuracy of 3mm.

1 School of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China. 2 School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, China. 3 ...

Of course, many different types of distance measuring sensors exist but not all sensors are the same. Each sensor has its own advantages and disadvantages. At its most basic level, a distance ...

Like Ars Senior Technology Editor Lee Hutchinson, I have a garage. The door on that garage is opened and closed by a device made by a company that, as with Lee’s, offers you a way to open and close it ...