Overview of Thermocouple Thermocouple consists of two different conductors forming an electrical junction at different temperatures. Due...

Overview of Thermistor Thermistor is a variable resistance element, whose resistance varies with change in temperature. The change in...

Overview of Soil Moisture Soil moisture is basically the content of water present in the soil. This can be measured using a soil moisture...

Overview of RTC Real Time Clock (RTC) is used for monitoring time and maintaining a calendar. In order to use an RTC, we need to first...

Overview of DHT11 DHT11 sensor measures and provides humidity and temperature values serially over a single wire. It can measure relative...

Overview of MPU6050 Module MPU6050 sensor module is an integrated 6-axis Motion tracking device. It has a 3-axis Gyroscope, 3-axis...

Overview of Motion Sensor PIR sensor is used for detecting infrared heat radiations. This makes them useful in applications involving...

Overview of Magnetometer Magnetometer HMC5883L measures the direction and magnitude of the Earth’s magnetic field and hence is used for...

Overview of IR LEDs, IR Photodiodes, and TSOP1738 IR communication makes use of IR (Infrared) waves from the electromagnetic spectrum. An...

Overview of Accelerometer Accelerometer is an electromechanical device that measures the force of acceleration due to gravity in g unit....

Overview of LM35 LM35 is a temperature sensor which can measure temperature in the range of -55°C to 150°C. It is a 3-terminal device...

Overview of SSD1306 OLED Module The OLED module shown in the above image is a very popular module available in the market. There are many...

Overview of Nokia5110 Display Nokia5110 is a graphical display that can display text, images, and various patterns. It has a resolution...

Overview of 7-segment Display 7-segment displays are made up of 8 LED segments. They are used to display Numbers (0-9) and certain...

Overview of LCD 16x2 LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays) are used in embedded system applications for displaying various parameters and status...

Let’s see some basic functions related to time and interrupts that are frequently used in Arduino IDE. Arduino Time Functions...

Let’s see some basic functions related to serial communication that are frequently used in Arduino IDE. Arduino UART Functions a) ...

Let’s see some basic functions related to Startup and GPIO that are frequently used in Arduino IDE. Arduino Functions at startup a) ...

Let’s see how to add a library to Arduino IDE for MPU6050 (Gyroscope + Accelerometer + Temperature) module in Arduino IDE. Step 1 Here,...

Introduction Bootloader, is basically the initial piece of code which runs whenever any micro-controller is powered up or resets. It is...