The standard electronics solder is a mix of tin and lead. As you may imagine it is not healthy to breathe the fumes coming out it. The solder spool may even contain a disclaimer about that, such as the one below: “Disclaimer: California residents: WARNING: This product contains, or when used for soldering and similar applications […]
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How to hack a digital postal / kitchen scale to work with Arduino? This tutorial shows how to take a cheap $6 digital scale and have Arduino read the weight. There are many cool projects you can then do.
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See how you can get a 7x battery life improvement on Arduino based projects. Also, learn about power consumption, regulator efficiency and battery life estimation. Intro In this experiment I investigate the power consumption of the Atmel ATmega328P-PU microcontroller which is the uC used in the Arduino Uno R3 boards (and others). If you’re looking for the […]
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