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A few random tips for Arduino programmers. We cover saving RAM by storing text in program memory, making your programs easier to read, a technique to avoid being held up in delays, the C++ [...]

Malting barley is a critical step in the brewing of a nice beer. Brewers rely on maltsters to craft this ingredient. It involves soaking the grain in water and allowing the germination process to [...]

IMPORTANT!!: We have now stopped supporting this build tool and are recommending Visual Micro, a plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio, as an alternative.   After using a GNUMake script based [...]

If an Arduino program crashes in the forest, will it make a sound? Unfortunately not. No blue screen of death, nor jarring squawk will alert you to the program’s doom. It will typically just [...]

Most Arduino programs have a few settings that you’d like to change from time to time: a set-point temperature, the data transmission rate, or the power for a radio transmitter, for example. [...]

Introduction This article covers the development of an Arduino controlled air conditioning system. It converts an old school, in-window, air conditioner (AC) which was in a very hard to reach [...]