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As a preview of his latest book, Arduino Project Handbook: 25 Practical Projects to Get You Started, Mark Geddes takes us through the project to create a simple plant monitor. In this project I’ll ...

Arduino-fanciers Oomlout have put together a neat control box for the popular prototyping board, complete with five potentiometers and three switches. There's also a software app that can monitor the ...

Gardening can be quite rewarding, but it can also take up a quite a bit of time. There that can make it easier to monitor your garden, but if your plot is larger than just a couple of plants, these ...

CGA monitors may not be an amazing technological advance these days, but they can generally be found very cheaply. Additionally, they have a DB-9 connector and work off of TTL ranges (0-5VDC) making ...

We often think, nowadays, about monitoring the environment and air quality, but what about an especially confined version of "indoors"? Specifically, a lift. Well, here's a smart lift monitoring ...

[Credit: Invent Geek] Gardening can be quite rewarding, but it can also take up a quite a bit of time. There is software out there that can make it easier to monitor your garden, but if your plot is ...

Every new generation of computers repeats the techniques used by the earlier generations. [Kim Salmi] created an ASCII-based quadcopter simulation game using an Arduino that displays on the Arduino ...