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Getting Started with Cheerlights

By bekathwia

Join the CheerLights community by building your own LED color-sharing project using an Arduino Nano ESP32. Create a delightful LED color interaction experience.

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Your First Arduino Project with Becky Stern

By bekathwia

Learn how to build your own unique Arduino project for the first time by combining Arduino sample sketches to make a working prototype of your idea.

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Arduino Code Libraries with Becky Stern

By bekathwia

Arduino libraries exist for all sorts of complex tasks; control LEDs, read sensors, create sounds, manipulate data, write to displays, and much more.

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Arduino Inputs/Outputs with Becky Stern

By bekathwia

Learn about inputs–electrical signals used to provide information to an Arduino board. We cover digital input with switches and analog input with potentiometers.

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Arduino Basics with Becky Stern

By bekathwia

Arduino makes it easy to tinker with technology. It’s a family of microcontroller boards that let you sense the world around you and control electrical devices.

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483

Simple Light and Sound Circuits - Electronics with Becky Stern

By bekathwia

Learn how to hook up some LEDs to a battery pack and also how to create a simple circuit for playing audio without the need for coding or programming.

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Translate an Idea Into Arduino Code

By bekathwia

Follow along as I share my workflow for turning an idea into an Arduino sketch for a functional prototype.

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Webcam Privacy Friend

By bekathwia

I made a motorized cover for my webcam in the shape of an eyeball.

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83

Endless Seltzer

By bekathwia

Hooking my SodaStream up to an enormous CO2 tank for nearly endless seltzer!

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New York Hot Dog Experience

By bekathwia

How to create a miniature New York City hotdog cart, complete with electronic and 3D printed toppings dispensers.

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A Simple Square-Wave Function Generator with an Arduino

By Maker.io Staff

Learn how to use the DAC of an Arduino to create a simple function generator capable of producing square, sine, and sawtooth waveforms.

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How to Connect an LCD to your Arduino

By Maker.io Staff

This how-to article covers the basics of connecting character LCD displays to an Arduino.