• The BMP180 is a new digital barometric pressure sensor of Bosch Sensortec, with a very high performance, which enables applications in advanced mobile devices, such as smart phones, tablet PCs…

  • The SHT21 has a capacitive sensor element to measure humidity, while the temperature is measured by a band gap sensor. Both sensors are seamlessly coupled to a 14-bit ADC, which then…

  • In this example we connect an RGB led to our MSP-EXP430G2 launchpad and flash the red, green and blue colours Schematic I actually had an RGB breakout attached the the…

  • This is a basic ‘hello world’ example for the MSP430G2 LaunchPad, this example uses the Energia development environment. For people who have used the Arduino development environment you will recognize the…

  • The MQ-2 is a fairly low cost sensor that can detect  LPG, i-butane, propane, methane ,alcohol, Hydrogen, smoke. There are a wide variety of shields and modules that can be bought…

  • Another feature of the Arduino Esplora is a built in RGB LED, again its fairly simple to use this using the writeRGB function. You can see the RGB led in…

  • Recently I had problems getting my Arduino and ethernet shield working correctly, I found the following code which basically reports via the serial monitor whether the SD card is available…