In this video I'll be showing you how you can control the contrast and the back light brightness of a 1602 LCD display with just the Arduino. The contrast is typically adjusted with a variable ...

What’s a hybrid relay? How does it work? What are its key building blocks? Whether you are designing a power control system or tinkering with a do-it-yourself automation project, it’s important to ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

Abstract: This paper is a tutorial covering relay applications in distribution networks. For relay engineers, projects involving distribution systems take up the majority of their time. In many cases, ...

There are several SmartStart systems available in the market that automate your car’s ignition system like Viper SmartStart but they are very costly. Although they include Remote start, stop and ...

I've discovered that if I use the two Sparkfun libraries for the QWIIC Relay, and the QWIIC Serial Motor Controller, that the two collide when defined as follows in a sketch: Yet, if I switch the ...

It’s no secret that the era of the landline telephone is slowly coming to a close. As of 2020, it was estimated that less than half the homes in America still subscribed to plain old telephone service ...

Raspberry Pi users may be interested in a new 8 channel relay board named the PiRelay 8, specifically created for the Raspberry Pi range of mini PC systems. The relay board allows you to connect up to ...

The official of Arduino team has released a new Arduino Cloud tutorial explaining more about the features integrated into their cloud service and possibly revealing a few that you didn’t even know ...