MICROCONTROLLER How-To Videos & Articles

Follow these microcontroller tutorials to learn all about microcontroller with WonderHowTo's collection of free how-to videos and articles, like Make music with a microcontroller, Program PIC microcontrollers in OS X, and Add analog meter control to a microcontroller.

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How to make music with a microcontroller

Make music with a microcontroller

Learn how to use a piezoelectric element as a speaker, and how to generate musical notes with a microcontroller with this home electronics ...more

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How to program PIC microcontrollers in OS X

Program PIC microcontrollers in OS X

This video tutorial demonstrates how you–yes, you–can use the C programming language and the HI-TECH IDE to program PICs on a Mac (with a ...more

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How to add analog meter control to a microcontroller

Add analog meter control to a microcontroller

Here’s a video demonstrating analog meter control with a Cubloc ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by bird crick | Comments 0
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How to embed lights into a backpack for safety with LilyPad

Embed lights into a backpack for safety with LilyPad

Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It's a sewable microcontroller ...more

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Curated 7 months ago by rmansur | Comments 0
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How to embed lights into a colorful brooch with LilyPad

Embed lights into a colorful brooch with LilyPad

Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It's a sewable microcontroller ...more

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How to make an LED blink with an AVR microcontroller

Make an LED blink with an AVR microcontroller

Systm is the Do-It-Yourself show designed for the common geek who ...more

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Curated 6 months ago by rmansur | Comments 0
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How To Modify a Lacrosse Ws2300 for Frequent Wireless Updates

Modify a Lacrosse Ws2300 for Frequent Wireless Updates

This WIKI describes how to modify a Lacrosse WS2300 Weather station to ...more

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Written 3 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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DIY Gear Clock

DIY Gear Clock

Alan Parekh's latest creation is a clock made from wooden gears.  Parekh says on Hacked Gadgets: "The clock...consists of a bunch of ...more

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How to embed lights into fabric and clothes with LilyPad

Embed lights into fabric and clothes with LilyPad

Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It's a sewable microcontroller ...more

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How to raise a flag when you get a new email

Raise a flag when you get a new email

Systm is the Do It Yourself show designed for the common geek who wants to quickly and easily learn how to dive into the latest and hottest ...more

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Shh...Cyborg Spy Beetles Released by DARPA

Shh...Cyborg Spy Beetles Released by DARPA

UC Berkeley (funded by DARPA) has created cyborg beetles guided wirelessly via laptop. These spy beetles were created with the intent of ...more

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DIY Private-Knock-Knock-Knock Cipher

DIY Private-Knock-Knock-Knock Cipher

The secret hideout - a thing of the past, a childhood luxury, an adult-less adventure. Those were the days. And remember the secret knock ...more

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MICROCONTROLLER (12 How-Tos)

Soba Noodle Champion Slurps 399 Bowls in 10 Minutes

Eat your heart out, Joey Chestnut. There's a new super-speed-eater in town, and she means business. 45-year-old Hatsuyo Sugawara downed an incredible number of 399 bowls of soba noodles in just ten ...

High Fashion Invisible Shoes

Fashion designer Andreia Chaves of São Paulo has created some optically stunning, "invisible" shoes. Constructed with mirrors, the shoes blend into their environment, chameleon-style ...

Get Yourself a Doppelganger Robot This Christmas (Just $225K)

This holiday season, two lucky consumers will have the opportunity to purchase a robot twin, specially made by Japanese robotics firm Kokoro. Says Pink Tentacle, "Department store operator Sogo ...

Holiday HowTo: DIY Felt Ball Wreath

Fed up with your boring ol' traditional holiday wreath? Ditch the greenery and go extra festive this year with this felt ball wreath HowTo, courtesy of Norwegian craft blog Pickles. P.S. You'll need ...

Art Borne From the Barrel of a Gun

Incredible high speed photography, capturing bullets piercing objects (via Flickr user Alex Andrea Broderick). Previously, Speeding Bullet at 1,000,000 FPS.

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