Arduino microcontroller

Drive a 7-Segment LED with an Arduino

Drive a 7-Segment LED with an Arduino

Using the Arduino development platform you will learn how to display numbers and letters on a single 7-segment LED display. There are many ways to drive 7-segment displays, and this is a fairly simple method. However, using this method to drive even one LED 7-segment array “burns” (occupies) many of the digital I/O pins on […]

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Replace and Re-Flash a Blown Arduino

Replace and Re-Flash a Blown Arduino

When I first started working with microcontrollers, I had an Arduino, a few LEDs, a handful of DC motors, and very little common sense. :) I learned firsthand that if you did not read before you wired stuff up, it could be a costly mistake. However during my hardware infancy not all was a loss. […]

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