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How To Interface PIR Sensor With Arduino

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Hello Arduinians... Ever thought of detecting motion via your Arduino.... if yes, then this one's for you. In this tutorial, We're interfacing PIR sensor today with Arduino. Let's gets started! Block Diagram Block Diagram Components Required For This Tutorials 1 * Arduino Board 1 * PIR Motion Sensor(you can buy from here )   Breadboard Jumper wires Battery What is PIR motion sensor & how it works? Basically, a PIR stands for "Passive Infrared Sensor". The sensor works on the principle of infrared waves' detection those are being emitted by human bodies. They are undetectable to us but can be discovered by the devices designed for such special purposes. I'm going to go just a little deep, enough to make you understand the internal operation. When a body moves in front of a PIR sensor, the temperature of that place changes where the body has moved. If the body makes a further movement, the composition of infrared waves being received by the PIR from th...

A Guide For Interfacing Analog Sensors With Arduino

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With Arduino, almost everything seems to be too friendly when it comes to interfacing various sensors, shields, add-ons or any other utility devices. Just because the Arduino coding environment is so user-friendly, anyone can do it. So in this post, I will just show you how to hook up your sensors to Arduino and get them running. Let's start with the very basics.... Sensors What is Sensor Sensors are those electronic components which convert physical data into electronic data. This data is in analog format and is fed to the microcontroller on the Arduino board. The microcontroller has inbuilt ADCs (Analog-2-Digital Converter) which processes this data and converts it into digital format. And once you have received the (electronically converted) physical data, you can make your Arduino perform as you want. How To Interface LDR With Arduino Arduino Distance Measurement Using Ultrasonic Sensor On your Arduino board, there are analog pins named as A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5. The number of ...

Automatic Street Light Controller Circuit Using LDR And 555 Timer IC

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We are living in the world where everything goes to be automatic from your washing machine to your ceiling fan. Street lights are one of those examples of the automatic world. Automatic street light are those light which needs no manual operation to gets turn ON and turn OFF. Did you ever try to make such kind of street lights that gets turn ON and turns OFF automatically? In this article, we are going to make automatic street light using LDR and 555 timer IC. List of Components   555 Timer IC LDR LED Potentiometer Resistor 1* 1k ohm  Resistor 1* 220 ohm 9V Battery Printed Circuit Board(PCB) Or BreadBoard  Circuit Diagram A very simple circuit diagram of automatic street light is given below.  Automatic Street Light Controller Circuit Principle and Working of Automatic Street Light Controller 555 Timer IC is the main part of the circuit that works as a comparator. All the working of this circuit depends on the working of the 555 timers Ic.To know more about 555 time...

Arduino Distance Measurement Using Ultrasonic Sensor

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We all know about the ultrasonic sensor and also wanted to play with it, but don't know how ultrasonic sensor works. So In this article, we will see  how to use an ultrasonic sensor with your projects. The ultrasonic sensor is very popular among arduino hobbyist and there are so many projects which you will be able to do at the end of this article. Description of HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor Ultrasonic Senso r can measure the distance from 1" to 13 feet( 1 cm to up to 4metre) with accuracy up to 3mm. A hc-sr04 ultrasonic sensor has 4 pin GND, VCC, Echo and Trigger Pin. Trig pin generate an ultrasound by setting trig pin on the high state of 10 microseconds. Echo pin produce an output in a microsecond when ultrasound returns back from the object to echo pin. We can calculate the distance by using simple formula Speed=(Distance/Time). The speed of the sound is 340m/s and thus by calculating ultrasound travel time we can calculate the object distance from the ultrasonic sensor. Requ...

How To Interface LDR With Arduino

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Hello, Friends hope all of you playing with your arduino and currently need to try to do another cool projects on arduino. Therefore, this tutorial is for you. During this tutorial, we interface LDR(Light dependent Resister) with the arduino board. It is very simple tutorials for arduino students, hobbyist, and beginners. Before going more we must find out how LDR is dependent on Light. What is LDR  LDR(Light dependent Resister) or a photoresistor is a light dependent variable resistor that resistance decreases with the increase in the intensity of light. This gives an analog value so that it is connected to an analog pin of arduino board. A simple LDR is shown within the image and to buy an LDR click on the below image Circuit Diagram A simple circuit diagram is shown in the image. We won't use LDR directly within the circuit in order that a potential divider circuit is used with a 10K resistor. In this circuit one pin of LDR is connected to Analog pin A0 of arduino UNO and ...

How to Use A Temperature Sensor With Arduino

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A thermometer is a device measures the temperature. A Thermometer consists a temperature sensing element that senses environment temperature and provides the result to the suitable devices. During this article, you may tend to learn to make a digital thermometer using LM35 temperature sensor and LCD module display.For LCD interfacing with arduino read this article  Interfacing LCD With Arduino UNO    LM35 : LM35 Temperature Sensor  LM35 is a temperature sensor that is employed to measure the temperature. It has three terminal Vcc, Output, Ground as shown in the above image  The range of the LM35 temperature sensor is from -55 'C to +155 'C. The output range varies by 10mV to each fall and rise in temperature. Circuit diagram of Digital Thermometer using LM35 temperature sensor with arduino UNO is shown below:  Automatic Temperature Fan Speed Controller   Circuit diagram It has a very simple circuit. The output terminal of the sensor is connected to th...