Nowadays, numerous electronic sensor modules are available on the market that can be combined with inexpensive microcontroller boards to measure environmental parameters of importance. The project ...

The BME280 sensor was easier to set up, as it communicates over the I2C serial protocol. This means that we only needed to ...

It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it up in to the upper atmosphere. It’s much harder to keep track of it and recover it when it falls back to Earth. If you’re trying ...

I recently had to build an infrared close proximity sensor that could tell if something was dropped in a parcel delivery drop box. After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece ...