The Arduino is an excellent first embedded development kit, provides a great introduction to electronics, and has the potential to get children into programming. [David] thinks throwing C at ...

Seven-segment displays and monochrome LCDs are fine for most projects, but some things simply look better in color. [John] over at the Little Bird Electronics blog recently wrote up a tutorial ...

The ARDUINO IDE associated with the ARDUINO board uses specific numbering, assigning numbers from 0 to 19 to digital pins 0 to 13 and numbers A0 to A5 to analog pins. GCBasic directly manipulates the ...

Hello! Long time Ars reader, first time poster. I have a project that involves a small LCD. I've got a prototype working with an Arduino board and that's cool. But now I want to go beyond a prototype ...

The I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) bus is a synchronous serial communication protocol that allows multiple electronic components (sensors, displays, memories, etc.) to be connected within the same ...