You can read the state of a button using Arduino and a few lines of code. The actual state is shown in the Serial Monitor window as 0 or 1, 0 meaning the ...

Power System I generally power my Arduino projects from a shield. It lets me avoid wasting power through the USB circuit, and also lets me easily put filter capacitors on to help smooth power.

The 486 that [someyob] is restoring had the Turbo button, but sadly there was just a simple LED to show whether or not it was engaged.

While you hopefully don't need one-button access to 911, a desk-mounted panic button is undoubtedly cool, and it makes for a great DIY Arduino project ...

Arduino is famous for empowering DIY projects, but it’s one of a multitude of choices available these days for prototyping your IoT startup, or, like, text messaging you every time your cat sneezes.

The Casio SK-1 keyboard is fairly well-known in the “circuit bending” scene, where its simple internals lend themselves to modifications and tweaks to adjust the device’s output i… ...