A video is available that supports this article , click below Parts List Arduino Nano OLED screen 128×64 pixels (but you could use smaller) SSD1306 driver HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor Some wires and a breadboard Introduction to Ultrasonic Sensors These are used to detect objects in front of them by sending […]

A supporting video for the article on transferring the Arduino Space Invaders project to strip-board is now available. Click on the picture or title of this post to view.

Let’s move our project from the breadboard to strip-board to give it a more permanent home. You will need 30×30 hole strip-board (30 width is a common size). Strip-board is the prototyping board that has rows of copper strips as apposed to perf-board which just has copper pads. I prefer […]

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October was a quieter month due to work and illness but support continued despite the lack of content on both this website and the associated you tube channel. So thanks to Chris L. for his long-standing support. Late October/early November has started well with two videos in a few days […]

The last article on adding louder amplified sound to your projects went into a lot of detail so that you could add amplified sound to any of your projects even if it didn’t quite fit the examples being shown. Downside was that it could get a little complex for some, […]

We have already shown how to add a simple piezo speaker to the Space Invaders project but what about a bit more umpppphhh….. We need a bigger speaker which the Arduino cannot drive directly, to solve this we need to add an audio amplifier and in this case it’s in […]

Companion video to the “Driving a Speaker” article has been released, click to view.