Tutorial 3: Connecting an OLED display to ESP8266

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Whether you want to show sensor readings, implement a navigational user interface menu, or display diagnostic information during prototyping a project, a graphic OLED display is always a cool add-on to embedded systems. In this tutorial, we will learn how to interface an I2C monochromatic OLED screen to ESP8266 (we will use EasyESP-1 board) using Arduino IDE. The OLED display used in this tutorial is SSD1306-based that can be bought for ~$5 on eBay or Aliexpress. You can also get a similar I2C OLED display with a grove connector from Elecrow for plug-and-play interfacing with the EasyESP-1 board. Buy EasyESP-1 board Hardware Setup

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DIY Arduino Pong Game

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Nick from educ8s.tv shows in the following video tutorial how to build a pong game using Arduino Uno, a 0.95″ SSD1331 driven SPI color OLED display, and some tact switches and jumper wires. You can play against the Arduino that controls the green paddle. Each time a player scores, the score is displayed on the screen. Posted below is the complete video tutorial.

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Bluetooth-connected weight scale

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This design application note from Microchip illustrates the the implementation of a Bluetooth-connected weight scale using Microchip’s PIC16F1783 MCU and the RN42 Bluetooth module. It is powered by 2 AAA batteries and the measured weight is displayed and recorded on a smartphone or tablet. Weight scales have been used for quite a while in homes, businesses and medical facilities. With the increase in demand for health-related information, connected weight scales can now send data to smartphones, tablets and the Cloud where it can be utilized by medical providers and other care givers. Connected weight scales are being used with other home-based

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Autonomous Parallel Parking Car

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Owing to limited parking space, crowded cities require you to have really good parallel parking skills to park your vehicle in a narrow parking space. This stressful task has lately been made easier in the new automobiles with the implementation of automatic parallel parking technology based on multiple imaging cameras and laser sensors. This add-on could add a few thousand dollars extra on your car price. Alberto Gutiérrez, Shaan Shetty, and Boling Hu (students from Cornell University) built a low-cost prototype car with autonomous parallel parking capability that would enable the car to find a suitable parking space and park itself without any

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Arduino controlled rover with FPV live video

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Tamas is a 17 years old electronics enthusiast from Hungary. His latest creation, which he shared on Instructables, is an Arduino-powered rover that can be controlled with brainwaves or a joystick. The best part of it is, while it’s being operated, you will also have access to a live video stream from the mounted camera via your pair of virtual reality glasses. This is an all terrain vehicle, that means that you can control it on snow, sand, any kind of ground, wet surface and of course indoors. It is powered by two 18650 lithium-ion batteries with a capacity of 2600

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