The Arduino ecosystem is an amazing learning tool, but even those of us who love it admit that even the simplified C Arduino ...

Connect the Arduino to your computer using the USB cable. Open the Serial Monitor in your IDE to see the values from the sensor – this will also help you to calibrate your plant monitor.

This simple WiFi serial port monitor would have saved us a lot of trouble. We can’t count how many times where being hooked into an Arduino with USB just to get the serial out has nearly been ...

Being able to communicate with your embedded project to understand what is happening is a necessary aspect of debugging. TK takes us through a review of Eltima's Virtual Serial Port Driver software ...

However, here, the Arduino Uno has only one serial interface, and we want to keep it for control or debugging with the Serial Monitor, so the “SoftwareSerial” library is called to control PN532 by ...

If you want to DIY solution to your energy consumption, here's how modders created a home energy monitor from an Arduino, some wiring, and a little custom code.

As a preview of his latest book, Arduino Project Handbook: 25 Practical Projects to Get You Started, Mark Geddes takes us through the project to create a simple Arduino plant monitor. In this project ...