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Hello everyone. This time we’re going to be making the Simon Says game from our popular Arduino Starter Kit. If you have the kit, you can follow along with the video, if not, we sell all the bits as a bundle here. As well as the bundle above, I’m using the Arduino compatible Hobby Components…
In this second part we’ll be adding an LCD screen to display the current temperature and relay state so that we can monitor the controller we created in the last video without it being connected to a computer. If you’ve not already followed part one check out the blog post and video here. Once set…
In this project we’ll show you how to create your very own temperature controller using an Arduino board and some mLink I2C modules. We’ll break this project into two parts with the second part being optional depending on how complex you’d like your controller to be. In the first part we’ll use a mLink NTC…
In this final part of the series we will use three SSD1306 128×64 pixel OLED display modules to create the kind of display you’d find on the concourse of a mid-sized railway station. Two screens will detail departures, the third will feature a clock and train arrivals. By pulling together the code from this series,…
In this series, we are building a main passenger information display for a model railway using a SSD1306 128×64 pixel OLED display module, driven by a nano. So far we have covered how to create a departures board, a combined clock and an arrivals board. In this latest post we will revisit our departures board…
We continue our series looking at how to use a SSD1306 128×64 pixel OLED display module on a model railway. In this part we will be making an Arrivals board. The information we need for arrivals is very similar to that for our departures board. We will be adapting the departures code to create the…
This series is looking at how to use a SSD1306 128×64 pixel OLED display module as a passenger information display on a model railway. The first in the series created a train departures display. The second a clock to keep time. We are going to combine these two to create a dynamic departures board that…
This series looks at how to use a SSD1306 128×64 pixel OLED display module as a passenger information display on a model railway. The first post in the series created a train departures display. We now move on to creating and displaying a clock. It is possible to fit a real time clock module to…
This is the first post in a series looking at how to use a SSD1306 128×64 Pixel OLED Display Module as a passenger information display on a model railway. The screens on these modules are 22mm by 11mm. This makes them a scale size of 1.6m wide by 0.8m high at OO scale. So they…
Back in 2015 we wrote an install guide for the Arduino IDE, as there are no current plans for new versions of Windows to be released, we decided now would be a good time to update that guide. The first step is to download a copy of the Arduino development environment. This can be downloaded…
