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Project overview: LOLBox v0.1 (first iteration)

erikaheidi September 21, 2018 ProjectsLeave a comment

If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, or if you have been to my talk at LaraconEU, you might have seen this project before. It’s a fun project I’ve initially built to reuse an Arduino-based board I had here (a Diavolino board, to be precise) with an LED display …

How to communicate with an Arduino via Serial using PHP code

erikaheidi July 13, 2018 Arduino / Electronics / TutorialsLeave a comment

Introduction I recently got my hands on a 7-segment display module (always wanted to play with those!) for a little project and at first I wanted to use purely PHP on a Raspberry Pi Zero to control it. However, due to lack of time (and a touch of lazyness) I …