Category Archives: Arduino

DIY scroll wheel

Posted on 2020-07-31 by M. Eric Carr

An Arduino Leonardo can be used to add scroll wheel functionality if your mouse doesn’t have it. Here’s how. Continue reading →

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Back EMF

Posted on 2020-02-03 by M. Eric Carr

Lenz’s Law explodes an NMOSFET and kills an Arduino Uno. (Sometimes, Science goes bang.) Continue reading →

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Qu’est-ce que JeVois?*

Posted on 2020-01-31 by M. Eric Carr

One of the best things about embedded electronics is that it seems to always be Christmastime. Inventive engineers are constantly coming up with devices to make previously complex tasks routine and previously impossible tasks merely challenging. Problems that you thought … Continue reading →

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Gone fishin’

Posted on 2019-09-15 by M. Eric Carr

Automating Minecraft fishing with an Arduino Leonardo and a microphone sensor. Continue reading →

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