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How to use hardware and software interrupts with Arduino

How to Use Interrupts: Arduino Multi-tasking

Using Arduino interrupts will help you build responsive interactive electronics projects, robots and animatronics that can do more than one thing at a time.

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How to Choose the Best Battery for your Electronics, Robot or Animatronics Project

How to Choose the Right Battery to Power Your Electronics Project

Selecting the best battery for your electronics project is crucial to its performance. Here are important characteristics to know for the most popular batteries.

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Types of Thermoplastics for Vacuum Forming Projects

Choosing the Best Plastics for your Vacuum Forming Project

New to vacuum forming and don’t know what plastics to use for your project? Here are the best choices to make parts for DIY projects to professional products.

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How to blink an LED and create LED animations

How to Connect & Blink an LED with Arduino

Build your first Arduino circuit with an LED and learn how to write code to blink it on and off at any rate you choose to create custom animations.

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How to Install the Arduino IDE and Configure your Board

The Arduino IDE & Uploading Your First Sketch

Download the Arduino IDE, configure your board and serial port so you’re ready to upload your first sketch, Arduino’s “Hello World”, making an LED blink!

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Arduino Hardware: Parts of an Arduino Uno Microcontroller

Take a tour of the Arduino Uno board and learn how to power it, where to connect devices, how each onboard component works and board troubleshooting tips.

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Learn Arduino: A Step-by-Step Arduino Tutorial for Beginners

Want to learn Arduino? Never coded before? This FREE Arduino tutorial will get you started with circuits and coding your first Arduino sketches from scratch!

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Design & Build Low-Fidelity Prototypes

Take your ideas from paper to working prototype using inexpensive materials, electronics and common tools as we create our first animatronic and mechanical effects spider prop.

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Find the Center of Any Circle

It seems like a pretty simple task, doesn’t it? I bet a lot of people (myself included) are confident that they can eyeball a good center point. But eyeballing isn’t […]

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