Arduino Tachometer
How to build a simple but useful strobe based tachometer using an Arduino Uno, an LCD/Keypad shield and a few transistors, LED's and resistors. Short pulses are generated with a simple Arduino sketch and used to drive a bank of LED's. This produces short regular pulses of light which when synchronized with the speed of a fan or motor or other rotating object, makes the moving object appear to be standing still. When this happens the light pulse rate is equal to the RPM of the object. More...
Arduino Motion Detector
Building on the Arduino Distance Sensor project you can now add motion detection to the features of the device. It detects when objects appear in front of the sensor and because it's ultrasonic it will work in the daylight just as well as it does at night. This can be an advantage over passive infra-red detectors. More...
Arduino Distance Sensor Part 2
Following on from the Arduino Distance Sensor project here is an updated version of the software sketch. Two new display modes have been added and the 'Select' key on the LCD keypad is used to swich between display modes. Full explanation of the software is provided. More...
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