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DIY Adjustable Constant Load (Current & Power)

“In this project I will show you how I combined an Arduino Nano, a current sensor, an LCD, a rotary encoder and a couple of other complementary components in order to create an adjustable constant load. It features a constant …

Home Manager

“Control your home, your robot arm, your Dalek, do some gaming, have a simple sport helper and an elderly safety guard in a versatile device! Introduction In the past I made a couple of projects that worked great, but could …

Nixie Clock / Display / Full Build

“It has been more than a year since I posted an instructable. I finished high school, got into college to study Electrical Engineering and now with my first year completed and much deserved holidays, I will write a few instructables …

Safe Shutdown and Auto Bootup for Raspberry Pi

“Have someone pulling the plug on your project, or perhaps an unstable or unreliable power supply? Here is the fix! Introduction Whether it’s a media center, file server, web server, robot, car PC, or an arcade console, a battery-less …

Use Capacitors to Measure Temperature

“This project came about because I bought a capacitor kit with mainly X7R (good quality) capacitors, but some of the higher values 100nF and above were the cheaper and less stable Y5V dielectric, which exhibit a massive change over temperature …

Automatic Plant Watering and Irrigation System

“Build your own automatic plant watering system. Introduction In daily operation related to watering the plants are the most important cultural practice and the most labour-intensive task. No matter whichever weather it is, either too hot and cold or too …

Pocket Power Supply

“This unit was a by-product of another project. I needed a small power supply on the field that can give 12VDC. I did not want to carry a huge benchtop power supply so I made a battery powered packet size …

Simple Arduino Chess Clock

“When I thought of doing a Chess Clock with Arduino, the goal was to build using simple programming without use class and work with the AVR register. The base used was Arduino Reference. The most difficult thing was to manipulate …

Arduino 5X3 LED Matrix to Run Alphabets

“I have made an LED matrix to Run Alphabets A-Z in a loop. It was a 3x5 LED matrix and controlled by an Arduino nano programming board. Check out the steps and also the DIY video below. (The sponsors of …

Bitcoin Powered Electrical Outlet

“A smart electrical outlet that allows customers to rent electricity by paying with Bitcoins. Project Idea Bitcoin and blockchain technology opened a whole lot of opportunities for paying for goods and services but the catch was that it wasn’t …