I want to build an application on my computer that allows me to click some buttons to control the Arduino. To do this, I am using Visual Basic — the programming language that I’m familiar with and ...

His latest Instructable does just that using an Arduino and Visual Basic .Net. [Saurabh] decided to build a voice controlled lamp. He knew he wanted it to change colors as well as be energy-efficient.

It’s a simple matter of hooking up the Grid-EYE sensor to the Arduino Uno over I2C, and then spitting out the sensor’s data in a nice visual form on a cheap TFT screen. It’s a great ...