Arduino

Bring Solar Power Into Your Sensor Project

Quite often, we want to place our sensors at locations where we have no access to a power outlet. The obvious solution is to add some solar panels and batteries to your project to make it run 24h / 7 days a week without the need to recharge it.

GPS Fundamentals with UBLOX NEO-6M GPS Chip

GPS is rapidly evolving from just being useful to being essential in our current world. Fortunately, there is an easy-to-configure, low-powered, Arduino-supported chip called UBLOX…

Making Your Own Arduino Using the Atmega328PU

We’ve already tackled the schematic diagram of the famed Arduino UNO. It is now time to assemble it in your own breadboard! Here are the…

A Complete Guide to Increasing Your Device Battery Life

Circuit design always starts with a question of how to make things work. Engineers grab the nearest development boards, more often than not an Arduino,…

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Wireless Communications Using the NRF24L01+ RF Transceiver Module

I still can’t believe how much this board costs considering its features. If you’re tired of messy wires and would like to put on some…

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ESP32 LoRa gateway battery optimized

I really love the tutorial written by JP how to use ESP32 Deep Sleep. For the beginners who are not familiar with ESP-IDF and prefer…

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How to Read the Arduino Schematic Diagram

Get deeper into the Arduino craft by looking into a reference design. In here I will get into details with the basic arduino schematic diagram…

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LoRa Gateway

Part #2 – The LoRa gateway In my other post I made an introduction to Long Range (LoRa) communication. Now let us put this into…

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Battery powered LoRa sensor node

Part #1 – The sensor nodes In my other post I made an introduction to Long Range (LoRa) communication. Now let us put this into…

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Long Range (LoRa) communication for devices that have no WiFi connection available

Usually we use WiFi, Bluetooth or GSM to connect our sensor devices with the world of IoT. But what if neither of that is available (or not affordable like GSM)?

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