Articles tagged with arduino

Arduino USB Infrared Remote Receiver for Kodi

Introduction

This project uses an Arduino Pro Micro to receive button presses from an old IR remote you might already have and sends keyboard presses via an emulated USB keyboard.

I’m using this to control Kodi, but you could use it to send keyboard commands to any program.

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Hardware …

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Arduino interface to MPU9250 / MPU9255 gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass

This post is a quick introduction to get an MPU9250 gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass module (so called 9 axis) connected and talking to an Arduino. I’m using a 5V Arduino Nano, because the description of this module says that it is 5V tolerant.

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Markings on chip is: MP92 / W864A1 …

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Arduino ST7735 SPI 128×160 TFT Display Module

A quick guide describing how to hook up an ST7735 128×160 SPI TFT display to your Arduino and get the library to display something.

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On the back it has two sets of pins and an SD card holder. I used the pins that already had a pin header soldered …

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Upgrading Sonoff Wireless Smart Switch Flash Memory (ESP8266)

I’ve been playing around with the ESP8266 based Sonoff Wireless Smart Switch and I really wanted to upgrade the flash from the 1MB it comes with to 4MB so I can re-program it over wifi.

I’ve already have custom firmware running on it, but I don’t like …

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Programming an ITEAD Sonoff Wireless Smart Switch (ESP8266)

I purchased some of these wireless smart switches from ITEAD, but didn’t like that you had to use their app and cloud server to use them. They use an ESP8266 microprocessor, so I wanted to see if I could re-program it to load my own firmware.

NOTE: Someone asked …

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Arduino Web Enabled Aquarium Controller

This is a project I started, but never finished. I got distracted by the Raspberry Pi when that was released!. Even though it is unfinished maybe someone could get some value out of the current state of the project.

The idea was to create a controller for an aquarium, to …

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Raspberry Pi and Arduino via GPIO UART

NOTE: This is an older post, and instead of using a CD4050 it might be easier to use a bi-directional level shifter module.

In an attempt to get my Raspberry Pi talking to my Arduino I’m exploring various different options. The first was to just use the USB connection …

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