The same holds true for a lot of microcontroller designs including [rgco’s] clever metal detector that uses very little other than an Arduino. The principle of operation is simple.

Looking for a light project to teach young hackers some very basic electronics? Here’s a quick and easy weekend project, a simple metal detector! We all know 555 timers are very useful and po… ...

12:22 pm September 9, 2016 By Julian Horsey Using the power of Arduino, Evan Kale has ingeniously transformed a weed wacker into an Arduino-powered metal detector.

A new Instructables page has been created to make an eco-friendly DIY metal detector using an Arduino Mega just been combined with a 3.2 inch TFT LCD ...