Category: Projects

I finally got round to finishing the improved version of my earlier pong clock which used two single colour 16×24 led modules with a built in controller. This version can display 3 colours and has several different modes to the earlier version and also it can display scrolling graphics from the popular retro game, pac-man. […]

I mentioned a while ago I had made a version of my single AA cell tester which can test high capacity LiFePO4 batteries with a nominal voltage of 24 volts (8 cells) which I had made for work as we supply 30 and 60 amp hour batteries which need to be tested. I have finally […]

I’ve been making a timer for my garden watering system as I have bought a few cheap timers from Amazon / Ebay in the past but they were either rubbish or went faulty within a year so I decided to make my own. I used a 240×64 graphic LCD salvaged from an old & obsolete […]

If you have been reading my blog you will have noticed I made two Arduino based NIMH AA battery testers around 2 years ago. One was the first Arduino project I made but it needed some improvement and as I had mentioned in one of my previous posts I’m really running out of things to […]

A while ago I made a rather silly project as I had a spare MQ2 sensor laying round left over from a previous experiment. I decided to build a circuit that simply displays the analog value from the sensor on a 7 segment display. It was a bit pointless but it did detect gas, farts […]

Just over 2 years ago I bought an Arduino Uno development board and began to see what I could do with it. I looked online for inspiration and came across this pong clock by Nick’s LED projects. I immediately thought now that’s cool and wanted to make one for myself and set about trying to […]

I posted back in January about a project I had in mind for our battery charging area at work to automatically turn off the power to the battery chargers if dangerous levels of toxic Hydrogen Sulphide were detected. The project was cancelled but resurrected about 3 months later when another battery failed releasing gas and […]

This is a project I built for work as an add on to our battery tester which is able to test up to six batteries at once. The battery tester is controlled by a PLC and does not show voltages in real time so we had no idea how long the battery runtime was remaining. […]

I’ve been working on a new Arduino project; the ultimate alarm clock which shows the time and date on a 16×2 LCD module and features multiple alarms with repeat / auto arm and radio function. I used a Tiny DS1307 RTC and EEPROM module which is a breadboard / veroboard compatible PCB containing a DS1307 […]

Back in October I posted about a basic NIMH battery tester based on an Arduino nano I made some time back which was a successful project and works quite well however it could only test one battery at a time and didn’t apply a constant current load. It was good but not very accurate and […]