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This is a third project in our chipKIT tutorial series and today we are going to construct a simple pulse rate meter using our Easy Pulse sensor with Digilent’s chipKIT Uno32 board. Digilent’s chipKIT Basic I/O shield is also used in this project for displaying the pulse waveform and the pulse rate.
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Here is a nice instructable on building a Bluetooth-controlled dual channel relay switch using Atmega328 MCU and a cheap HC-06 Bluetooth module. You can use this device to control various appliances and devices in your home by sending commands through any Bluetooth device.
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The easiest way of producing a sound using an Arduino board is by bit-banging its I/O pin driving a buzzer or speaker. However, if you want to go beyond simple beeps and synthesis complex and more interesting sounds, you need a better understanding of the Arduino hardware as well as the theory behind wave synthesis. Here’s a wonderful tutorial from Makezine that describes the fundamental concept of synthesizing waveform and how to manipulate it in real time.
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A couple of years ago I built a digital voltage monitor system for my car’s battery and its charging system. It plugs into the car’s cigarette lighter receptacle and displays the instantaneous output voltage across the battery terminals on a 4-digit seven segment LED display. I used Microchip’s PIC16F1827 microcontroller and it’s built-in Fixed Reference Voltage (FVR) module to achieve better A/D conversion accuracy while measuring the battery voltage. Here’s an instructable on building a similar device but using ATtiny13 microcontroller. Instead of displaying real battery voltage, however, this project uses three LEDs as visual indication of battery condition.
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I have always enjoyed reading/doing projects that involve sensing various environmental parameters and recording them. This Solar-powered outdoor weather station built upon the Arduino platform measures the ambient temperature, humidity and barometric pressure, and send these parameters to a PC using XBee RF modules. The measurements are recorded on the PC and presented in nice charts showing their temporal trends. The beauty of this project is that the outdoor module is fully powered through a Lipo battery which is charged through a solar panel. Sensors used in this project are DHT22 for temperature and relative humidity measurements, and BMP0805 for measuring
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