Once you know how to use Arduino boards, you can make custom shortcut keys for your computer, change your thermostat, or even control a walking robot. But to do that, you need to start simple, and ...

Recently, we published an entry-level Arduino project with a single seven-segment LED display. Although it’s an amazing DIY project, we noted that most of the readers are looking for more advanced ...

The board has four LED arrays resulting in a display of 8×32 LEDs. The MAX7219 takes a 16-bit data word over a 10 MHz serial bus, so programming is pretty easy.

In this second article we will see a practical application of the daisy-chained shift registers. We want to use four 7-Segments LEDs controlled by the Arduino board. As you can imagine, that is ...

Magdalena Petrova The Arduino Primo Core board (center) sites on top of an Arduino Alicepad while on show at Maker Faire Bay Area in San Mateo, California, on May 20, 2016.

Planning another Arduino build? If you’re just doing something simple like switching a relay or powering a LED, you might want to think about the Digispark. It’s a very small ATtiny-bas… ...