New TFT LCD shield for Arduino with microSD and I/O sockets
Here comes a brand new TFT LCD shield for Arduino. It features: 2.2″ TFT LCD screen of 320×240@16bpp driven by SPI I2C socket (SDA, SCL, VCC, GND) UART socket (Rx, Tx, VCC, GND) Analog socket (A2, A3,...
View ArticleOBD-II + GPS + G-force data logger based on Arduino MEGA2560
This will be the most comprehensive OBD-II data logger kit and also the biggest in size as it is based on Arduino MEGA2560. Te kit consists of: Arduino MEGA2560 Arduino MEGA I/O extension shield...
View ArticleArduino SD card picture viewer with TFT LCD shield
I just started to play with TFT LCD screen with Arduino. I used Itead 2.8″ TFT shield which is said to work great with UTFT library. Taking into account that Arduino has too limited Flash to hold a...
View ArticleCheers on the all new Arduino Yún!
Finally Arduino combies with Linux. The name is also brilliant! Yún(云) means cloud in Chinese language and that indiciates this Arduino goes up to the cloud, with either WIFI or RJ45. There is USB host...
View ArticleSwitching among Arduino LCD shields or modules with ease
Recently I developed a library for ease the job of displaying texts and numbers on different LCD/OLED modules. This is mainly for my OBD-II data logger project which can be made up of different sets of...
View ArticleArduino Builder updated and synced with Arduino IDE 1.6.4
Arduino Builder was just updated. The new release contains header and library files from Arduino IDE 1.6.4. AVR toolchain and AVRDUDE are also updated to latest version. Download the latest release...
View ArticleArduino library for SIM800 for GPRS/HTTP communication
Recently I obtained a cheap (under $8) teeny-tiny SIM800 breakout board. The serial UART interfaced SIM800 makes it very easy for any embedded system to add cellular network access and connect to the...
View ArticleArduino Builder 0.9.1 Released
The new version has added an option of “Optimize for Speed” which Arduino IDE does not provide. This will make your sketch compiled into faster code but larger in size. Download the latest release from...
View ArticleSimple test sketch for UTouch library
Here is a simplest touch screen test sketch (display X,Y on serial) using UTouch library for common Arduino LCD shield. #include <UTouch.h> UTouch myTouch( 6, 5, 4, 3, 2); void setup() {...
View ArticleArduino Builder updated
Arduino Builder was recently updated. In this release, AVR GCC has been upgraded to version 4.9.1. Arduino core and libraries files have been synchronised with Arduino IDE 1.7.10. Some minor UI issues...
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