Arduino Mega 2560 and sd card module
I bought a sd card module some time ago, from a Chinese seller on Ebay. These modules are really cheap, I paid 2,03€ for it and that includes shipping to Belgium. You really wonder how they can do it. To try it out I connected the sd card module to my Arduino Uno and uploaded [...]
New toy, ADXL345
The postman delivered a new toy this week. I bought an ADXL345 accelerometer on Ebay, I was a little bit surprised when the package arrived, the board came in an envelope but I couldn’t feel if there was something inside, after opening the envelope and holding it up a little black bag fell out. Inside [...]
Flamingo EDA bricks and shields
When I ordered my first Arduino’s I also bought a whole bunch of sensors. That way I could experiment and make many tutorial sketches that are easily found on the internet. Arduino has become very popular, a quick Google search for Arduino tutorials will give you hundreds of websites with example sketches and cool things [...]
Powering Arduino
Now that I have 2 Arduinos I need something to power them. Easiest is to power the Arduino with the USB cable that you also use to upload a sketch. If you’re going to use it without a pc you will need another solution. One solution is to buy connectors that fit on 9V 6LR61 [...]
Where to buy Arduino stuff?
After spending some time on the Arduino forum I found a link to the Arduino-direct webshop. It’s a Chinese webshop, and that means they have very competitive prices. Of course shipping and potential import duty and VAT makes it less interesting. I ordered a couple of hundred dollars of parts and had it shipped over [...]