The DS18B20 is a  temperature sensor that can be used in various simple projects.  This part uses the 1 wire (I2C) bus and you can connect multiple sensors up to your Arduino. The DS18B20 digital thermometer provides 9-bit to 12-bit Celsius …

This was another shield that grabbed my attention, this LCD was used on some older nokia phones. You can find it on the internet  at very reasonable rates , I have purchased this as a shield for an Arduino but you can …

In this next example we will connect multiple LEDs to our Arduino and create an effect called the Knight rider effect (after the TV show) or the Larsson effect (named after the creator of the TV show Battlestar Galactica). In …

The most basic project that you can start with is the capability to flash an LED, this is the common ‘hello world’ type of program you can write and run on your arduino. Most Arduino’s have an LED attached to …