A distance sensor provides basic gesture recognition and a microcontroller with wireless connectivity controls both and provides home automation integration as well.

The device he’s holding in the picture is an Arduino based accelerometer and distance sensor meant for the Scratch language. Scratch is a programming language developed at MIT.

Arduino projects can help ease the learning curve of getting into programming, and even add some smart functionality to your everyday tasks around the house.

John Boxall, author of the new book Arduino Workshop, shares a few of the projects from his book on how to get started with the microcontroller. (Click the links to see PDFs of the complete ...

In this particular project, I contemplated a shield for Arduino Nano, which can gather weather-related information by a built-in BMP280 Temperature and Pressure Sensor, a photoresistor, and a ...