Display and monitor system information on an external, microcontroller-driven 16x2 LCD. I use this to display my headless server's current system stats on an LCD embedded in the case. Doesn't just ...

The Arduino IDE "Serial Monitor" view has a "Toggle Autoscroll" control. When this is enabled, the view automatically scrolls down as the number of lines of data exceed the visible height of the view.

The past month or so I’ve been playing with the Maxim DS1307 Real-Time-Clock and DS1621 Temperature Sensor ICs. I hooked them up to an Arduino Uno board with a Parallax Serial 16×2 Character LCD. I ...

An Arduino Uno provides the processing power and drives the serial monitor. A joystick and a Hitachi H48C accelerometer are mounted on a breadboard and wired to the Uno.