April 14, 2020
There has been many times that I’ve left the house and noticed the difference in temperature between inside and outside my home. I thought a fun project would be to combine an Arduino reading the inside temperature and the outside temperature.
I had a couple ideas on how to do this. The first involved two Arduinos, one inside and one outside, both using TMP36 sensors to monitor the temperatures. The second was a single Arduino inside that recorded the temperature using the sensor and then using the Open Weather Map API{.
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December 12, 2017
I have a project in mind that needs internet connectivity but I won’t have access to WiFi so when I saw the Arduino MKR GSM 1400 with it’s GSM capability I thought I could use it to send my data over 3G.
Before I get to trying anything like that this is my experience using it for the first time.
Where do I put the SIM Card # I already had a SIM Card from GiffGaff to use I just needed somewhere to put it.
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December 21, 2011
I recently found out about Arduino an open-source electronics prototyping platform – as described on the website.
It’s basically a circuit board which can have components connected to it and then “sketches” can be uploaded to the board to control how it operates. The basics, which I am working through this Christmas, are controlling LEDs but if you have a Google or YouTube there are some really impressive projects.
I’ve never really dabbled with electronics before but this looks a lot of fun.
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