Build your textbook weather station or conduct environmental research together with the whole world. With many practical projects for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, NodeMCU, ESP32, and other development boards.
Weather stations have enjoyed great popularity for decades. Every current and even every long discontinued electronics magazine has regularly featured articles on building your own weather station. Over the years, they have become increasingly sophisticated and can now be fully integrated into an automated home — although this often requires loyalty to an (expensive) brand manufacturer across all components.
With your own weather and environmental data, you can keep up and measure things that no commercial station can. It’s also fun: expand your knowledge of electronics, current microcontroller development boards and programming languages in a fun and meaningful way. For less than 10 euros you can get started and record your first environmental data — with time and growing interest, you will continue to expand your system.
In this Edition
Which Microcontroller Fits My Project?
The Right Development Environment
Tracking Wind and Weather
Weather Display with OpenWeatherMap and Vacuum Fluorescent Display
Volatile Organic Compounds in the Air We Breathe
Working with MQ Sensors: Measuring Carbon Monoxide — Odorless but Toxic
CO2 Traffic Light with ThingSpeak IoT Connection
An Automatic Plant Watering System
Good Indoor Climate: Temperature and Humidity are Important criteria
Classy Thermometer with Vintage Tube Technology
Nostalgic Weather House for the Whole Family
Measuring Air Pressure and Temperature Accurately
Sunburn Warning Device
DIY Sensor for Sunshine Duration
Simple Smartphone Says: Fog or Clear View?
Identifying Earthquakes
Liquid Level Measurement for Vessels and Reservoirs
Water pH Value Measurement
Detecting Radioactive Radiation
GPS: Sensor Location Service Across the Globe
Saving and Timestamping Log Files on SD Cards
LoRaWAN, The Things Network, and ThingSpeak
Operating a LoRaWAN Gateway for TTN
Defying "Wind and Weather"
Mega Display with Weather Forecasz
Ein Blick in die einschlägigen Internetforen zeigt, dass das Programmieren immer noch in der Gruppe der beliebten Hobbys rangiert. Wo dem Hobbyprogrammierer früher eine Reihe bekannter und populärer Programmiersprachen zur Verfügung standen, ist es heute relativ übersichtlich geworden: Außer C++, Java und Visual Basic gibt es wenig bekannte und beliebte Programmiersprachen. Was fehlt, ist eine Programmiersprache, die für Laien fast so einfach zu handhaben ist wie die alten BASIC-Versionen, deren Leistung und Features dennoch an die Möglichkeiten und die Power moderner Windows-Rechner angepasst sind. Diese Programmiersprache existiert und heißt Processing.
Das vorliegende Buch führt den Leser in diese visuelle Programmiersprache ein. Das Buch richtet sich an Leser, die bereits allgemeine Erfahrungen im Umgang mit Programmiersprachen besitzen und wissen, worum es sich bei Strings, Arrays oder Schleifen handelt. Der Autor zeigt anhand vieler kurzer Programmbeispiele, wie einfach es ist, mit Processing auch leistungsfähige Software zu programmieren und sich dabei auf eine nur geringe Anzahl von Befehlen, Anweisungen und Funktionen zu beschränken.
Die in diesem Buch vorgestellten Programme sind zum Teil Hardware-orientiert, wobei auch die Erfassung von Daten und die Steuerung von Hardware mittels des bekannten Mikrocontrollers Arduino einer Rolle spielt. Kurz und gut: Ein Buch für alle, die eine schnell und einfach zu programmierende Software mit elektronischer Hardware kombinieren und das Ganze über maßgeschneiderte Benutzeroberflächen steuern möchten.
Build Your Own RISC-V ControllerFirst Steps with the NEORV32 RISC-V Softcore for Low-Cost FPGAs
How to Use Arduino’s Serial PlotterPlotting Graphs With Arduino Is Easy
CLUE from AdafruitA Smart Solution for IoT Projects
Buffer Board for the Raspberry Pi 400Protect the I/Os
Raspberry Pi RP2040 Boards Aplenty
A Handbook on DIY Electronic Security and EspionageSRAM Heated or Deep-Frozen
Component IdentificationTips & Tricks, Best Practices and Other Useful Information
DIY Touchless Light Switch
Starting out in ElectronicsMatching and Transforming
What’s New in Embedded Development?Rust and Keeping IoT Deployments Updated
Infographics
How the Industrial and Automotive Sectors Will Benefit from 5G
Moving Coil RelaysPeculiar Parts, the series
HomeLab ToursEverything Revolves Around the Tools...
Understanding the Neurons in Neural Networks (Part 4)Embedded Neurons
Magnetic Levitation the Very Easy WayThe Third and Most Compact Version
PLC Programming with the Raspberry Pi and the OpenPLC ProjectVisualization of PLC Programs with AdvancedHMI
From Life's ExperiencePack Up and Leave
Under Your RadarMicrocontrollers You Should Know About
Monitor and Debug Over the AirA Solution for Arduino, ESP32 and Co.
Portable Temperature- and Humidity-Measuring DeviceUsing Ready-Made Modules
Lithium Battery Pack RepairSave Money + More Power!
GUIs with PythonMeme-Generator
Three Questions to Build OnWhy, What, and Who?
HexadokuThe Original Elektorized Sudoku
Develop innovative hardware-based projects in C
The Raspberry Pi has traditionally been programmed using Python. Although this is a very powerful language, many programmers may not be familiar with it. C on the other hand is perhaps the most commonly used programming language and all embedded microcontrollers can be programmed using it.
The C language is taught in most technical colleges and universities and almost all engineering students are familiar with using it with their projects. This book is about using the Raspberry Pi with C to develop a range of hardware-based projects. Two of the most popular C libraries, wiringPi and pigpio are used.
The book starts with an introduction to C and most students and newcomers will find this chapter invaluable. Many projects are provided in the book, including using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to establish communication with smartphones.
Many sensor and hardware-based projects are included. Both wiringPi and pigpio libraries are used in all projects. Complete program listings are given with full explanations. All projects have been fully tested and work.
The following hardware-based projects are provided in the book:
Using sensors
Using LCDs
I²C and SPI buses
Serial communication
Multitasking
External and timer interrupts
Using Wi-Fi
Webservers
Communicating with smartphones
Using Bluetooth
Sending data to the cloud
Program listings of all Raspberry Pi projects developed in this book are available on the Elektor website. Readers can download and use these programs in their projects. Alternatively, they can customize them to suit their applications.
Ready to explore the world around you? By attaching the Sense HAT to your Raspberry Pi, you can quickly and easily develop a variety of creative applications, useful experiments, and exciting games.
The Sense HAT contains several helpful environmental sensors: temperature, humidity, pressure, accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope. Additionally, an 8x8 LED matrix is provided with RGB LEDs, which can be used to display multi-color scrolling or fixed information, such as the sensor data. Use the small onboard joystick for games or applications that require user input. In Innovate with Sense HAT for Raspberry Pi, Dr. Dogan Ibrahim explains how to use the Sense HAT in Raspberry Pi Zero W-based projects. Using simple terms, he details how to incorporate the Sense HAT board in interesting visual and sensor-based projects. You can complete all the projects with other Raspberry Pi models without any modifications.
Exploring with Sense HAT for Raspberry Pi includes projects featuring external hardware components in addition to the Sense HAT board. You will learn to connect the Sense HAT board to the Raspberry Pi using jumper wires so that some of the GPIO ports are free to be interfaced to external components, such as to buzzers, relays, LEDs, LCDs, motors, and other sensors.
The book includes full program listings and detailed project descriptions. Complete circuit diagrams of the projects using external components are given where necessary. All the projects were developed using the latest version of the Python 3 programming language. You can easily download projects from the book’s web page. Let’s start exploring with Sense HAT.
KI in der Praxis
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Robotik und Automatisierung!
Dieses Elektor Special zeigt, wie Sie mit Kreativität, etwas Know-how und günstiger Technik eigene Roboter bauen können. Vom ersten DIY-Projekt mit Arduino oder Raspberry Pi bis hin zu intelligenten Systemen mit KI – dieses Heft macht moderne Robotik verständlich und greifbar.
Entdecken Sie praxisnahe Anleitungen, inspirierende Projekte und spannende Einblicke in die Maker-Szene. Lernen Sie, wie aus Experimentierfreude, Gemeinschaft und Offenheit echte Innovation entsteht – und warum Robotik weit mehr ist als nur ein technisches Hobby.
Inhalt
Phantasie wird Realität
Arduino-controlled Drawing Robot
GalaxyRVR Mars Rover Kit for Arduino
YDLIDAR X4Pro Lidar
xHuskyLens AI Camera
DOF Robot Arm mit Raspberry Pi Pico
Fertigungsroboter mit Fischertechnik
Pneumatischer Industrieroboter
Warum bauen wir immer wieder Roboterhunde?
Elektor Mini-Wheelie
Roboterfahrzeuge und autonomes Fahren
This book covers a series of exciting and fun projects for the Arduino, such as a silent alarm, people sensor, light sensor, motor control, internet and wireless control (using a radio link). Contrary to many free projects on the internet all projects in this book have been extensively tested and are guaranteed to work!
You can use it as a projects book and build more than 45 projects for your own use. The clear explanations, schematics, and pictures of each project make this a fun activity. The pictures are taken of a working project, so you know for sure that they are correct.
You can combine the projects in this book to make your own projects. To facilitate this, clear explanations are provided on how the project works and why it has been designed the way it has That way you will learn a lot about the project and the parts used, knowledge that you can use in your own projects.
Apart from that, the book can be used as a reference guide. Using the index, you can easily locate projects that serve as examples for the C++ commands and Arduino functionality. Even after you’ve built all the projects in this book, it will still be a valuable reference guide to keep next to your PC.
Two reasons can be identified for the immense success of the Arduino platform. First, the cheap, ready to go processor board greatly simplifies the introduction to hardware. The second success factor is the free and open-source programming suite that does not require an installation procedure.
Simple entry-level examples ensure rapid successes. Complex selection procedures for parameters like the microprocessor version or interface settings are not required. The first sample programs can be uploaded to the Arduino board, and tested, in a matter of minutes.
The Arduino user is supported by an array of software libraries. However, the daily increasing volume of libraries poses initial problems to the newcomer, and the way ahead may be uncertain after a few entry-level examples. In many cases, detailed descriptions are missing, and poorly described projects tend to confuse rather than elucidate. Clear guidance and a single motto are missing, usually owing to the projects having been created by several different persons—all with different aims in mind.
This book represents a different approach. All projects are presented in a systematical manner, guiding into various theme areas. In the coverage of must-know theory great attention is given to practical directions users can absorb, including essential programming techniques like A/D conversion, timers and interrupts—all contained in the hands-on projects. In this way readers of the book create running lights, a wakeup light, fully functional voltmeters, precision digital thermometers, clocks of many varieties, reaction speed meters, or mouse controlled robotic arms. While actively working on these projects the reader gets to truly comprehend and master the basics of the underlying controller technology.
Kick off with the MAX1000 and VHDPlus
Ready to Master FPGA Programming? In this guide, we’re diving into the world of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) – a configurable integrated circuit that can be programmed after manufacturing. Imagine bringing your ideas to life, from simple projects to complete microcontroller systems!
Meet the MAX1000: a compact and budget-friendly FPGA development board packed with features like memory, user LEDs, push-buttons, and flexible I/O ports. It’s the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about FPGAs and Hardware Description Languages (HDLs).
In this book, you’ll get hands-on with the VHDPlus programming language – a simpler version of VHDL. We’ll work on practical projects using the MAX1000, helping you gain the skills and confidence to unleash your creativity.
Get ready for an exciting journey! You’ll explore a variety of projects that highlight the true power of FPGAs. Let’s turn your ideas into reality and embark on your FPGA adventure – your journey starts now!
Exciting Projects You’ll Find in This Book
Arduino-Driven BCD to 7-Segment Display Decoder
Use an Arduino Uno R4 to supply BCD data to the decoder, counting from 0 to 9 with a one-second delay
Multiplexed 4-Digit Event Counter
Create an event counter that displays the total count on a 4-digit display, incrementing with each button press
PWM Waveform with Fixed Duty Cycle
Generate a PWM waveform at 1 kHz with a fixed duty cycle of 50%
Ultrasonic Distance Measurement
Measure distances using an ultrasonic sensor, displaying the results on a 4-digit 7-segment LED
Electronic Lock
Build a simple electronic lock using combinational logic gates with push buttons and an LED output
Temperature Sensor
Monitor ambient temperature with a TMP36 sensor and display the readings on a 7-segment LED
Downloads
Software
De Formula Flowcode Robot is een combinatie van analoge en digitale elektronica. De robot zit boordevol sensoren en actuatoren, en is grafisch programmeerbaar met Flowcode-software. Hierdoor vormt het een leuk en motiverend platform om kennis te maken met moderne elektronica en technologie.
Via de robot en deze handleiding kun je op uitdagende manier kennis maken met basiselektronica. Onderwerpen die aan bod komen zijn analoog en digitaal, logische poorten, diode, LCD, microcontrollers, frequentie, sensoren, actuatoren, infrarood, meet- en regeltechniek, servomotoren, gelijkrichting, programmeren en nog veel meer.
ModbusRTU and ModbusTCP examples with the Arduino Uno and ESP8266
Introduction to PLC programming with OpenPLC, the first fully open source Programmable Logic Controller on the Raspberry Pi, and Modbus examples with Arduino Uno and ESP8266
PLC programming is very common in industry and home automation. This book describes how the Raspberry Pi 4 can be used as a Programmable Logic Controller. Before taking you into the programming, the author starts with the software installation on the Raspberry Pi and the PLC editor on the PC, followed by a description of the hardware.
You'll then find interesting examples in the different programming languages complying with the IEC 61131-3 standard. This manual also explains in detail how to use the PLC editor and how to load and execute the programs on the Raspberry Pi. All IEC languages are explained with examples, starting with LD (Ladder Diagram) over ST (Structured Control Language) to SFC (Special Function Chart). All examples can be downloaded from the author's website.
Networking gets thorough attention too. The Arduino Uno and the ESP8266 are programmed as ModbusRTU or ModbusTCP modules to get access to external peripherals, reading sensors and switching electrical loads. I/O circuits complying with the 24 V industry standard may also be of interest for the reader.
The book ends with an overview of commands for ST and LD. After reading the book, the reader will be able to create his own controllers with the Raspberry Pi.
Dit bundel bevat de populaire Elektor zandklok voor Raspberry Pi Pico en de nieuwe Elektor laserkop upgrade, en biedt daarmee nog meer mogelijkheden om de tijd weer te geven. U kunt de actuele tijd nu niet alleen in zand "graveren", maar ook op een lichtgevende folie schrijven of groene tekeningen maken.
Inhoud van de bundel
Elektor Zandklok voor Raspberry Pi Pico (normale prijs: € 50)
Elektor Laserkop Upgrade voor Zandklok (normale prijs: € 35)
Zandklok voor Raspberry Pi (een op de Raspberry Pi Pico gebaseerde Eye Catcher)
Een standaard zandklok laat meestal slechts zien hoe de tijd verstrijkt. Deze door een Raspberry Pi Pico aangestuurde zandklok toont daarentegen de exacte tijd door de vier cijfers voor uren en minuten in een zandlaag te "graveren". Na een vooraf ingestelde periode wordt het zand door twee trilmotoren vlak getrild en begint alles weer van voren af aan.
Het hart van de zandklok wordt gevormd door twee servomotoren, die via een pantograafmechanisme een schrijfpen aandrijven. Een derde servomotor tilt deze pen op en neer. Het zandbakje is voorzien van twee trilmotoren om het zand weer vlak te trillen. Het elektronische deel van de zandklok bestaat uit een Raspberry Pi Pico en een RTC/driverbord met een real-time klok, plus drivercircuits voor de servomotoren.
Een gedetailleerde bouwhandleiding is beschikbaar via download.
Kenmerken
Afmetingen: 135 x 110 x 80 mm
Bouwtijd: ca. 1,5 tot 2 uur
Inbegrepen
3x Voorgesneden acrylaatplaten met alle mechanische onderdelen
3x Mini servomotoren
2x Trilmotoren
1x Raspberry Pi Pico
1x RTC/driverkaart met geassembleerde onderdelen
Moeren, boutjes, afstandhouders en draden voor de montage
Fijnkorrelig wit zand
Elektor Laserkop Upgrade voor Zandklok
De nieuwe Elektor Laserkop transformeert de Elektor Zandklok in een klok die de tijd op glow-in-the-dark-film schrijft in plaats van op zand. Naast het weergeven van de tijd kan het ook worden gebruikt om kortstondige tekeningen te maken. De 5 mW laserpointer, met een golflengte van 405 nm, produceert heldergroene tekeningen op de glow-in-the-dark-film. Voor het beste resultaat gebruikt u de kit in een slecht verlichte kamer. Waarschuwing: Kijk nooit rechtstreeks in de laserstraal!
De kit bevat alle benodigde componenten, maar het solderen van drie draden is vereist.
Opmerking: Deze kit is ook compatibel met de originele Arduino-gebaseerde Zandklok uit 2017. Voor meer details, zie Elektor 1-2/2017 en Elektor 1-2/2018.
