Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I ...

In the microcontroller era today, Arduino is more than just a tool to ... The best sensor you can use to detect an intrusion is the Passive Infrared (PIR) Sensor. The PIR Sensor detects the motion of ...

While PIR sensors can be used with Arduino and other microcontroller boards, those best-suited for hobby use (the kind with a white golf ball-like semi-sphere lens, electrical connectors called ...

The code is an Arduino project for the Digispark Attiny85 to turn on a light source when the PIR sensor detects something ... P1 of Digispark is used to drive the status indicator while P2 is an ...

Get close enough to this raven and you’ll set off the PIR sensor, which triggers lighting ... This bird’s brain is an Arduino Nano, which is protected from the 12V supply with a boost converter.

[ladyada] has a freshly-published and amazingly thorough tutorial on passive infrared (PIR) motion sensors ... in creative hands these sensors can be put to other uses—cat flaps, camera ...

Unlike a Raspberry Pi, you won't find anything resembling an operating system here; instead, the Arduino uses simplified ...

Flash Raspberry Pi OS (or Ubuntu Server) onto a microSD card. Boot the Pi and complete the initial setup. Use Arduino to handle sensor input and relay control. Pi runs a Python Flask server with a ...