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Explore our variety of creative microcontroller projects for all levels, ready to build with parts from our range

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New to microcontroller projects? Our XC3900 Duinotech Learning Kit has everything you need to get started with Arduino.

Arduino Clap Light
Sight & Sound
Arduino Clap Light
Difficulty

Can’t find the remote control? Don’t worry! Clapping lets you switch devices on and off with this simple project. You may have seen it on TV; now you can build it yourself.

Entertainment
Memory Gesture Game
Difficulty

This project is all about creating a simple game to test your memory.

Automatic Blinds Opener
Automatic Blinds Opener
Difficulty

Let the power of the sun encourage you to get out of bed each morning with this curtain/blinds opener.

Ethernet IO Controller
Arduino Ethernet IO Controller
Difficulty

Here’s a little project that isn’t hard to build, but really has unlimited uses.

Festive
Game Of Life
Difficulty

Looking for a new conversation starter in your home? Build our Game of Life wall thermostat using new XC4390 addressable RGB light strip.

Unlocking Weather Wisdom: A Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up Your Own Home Weather Station
Difficulty

Gain valuable meteorological data with weather stations, empowering you to monitor and analyze weather conditions effectively.

Entertainment
Arduino Picture Frame
Difficulty

There's not a lot to construct in this project - it's just an UNO and LCD Touch Shield, but if you want a simple project that looks slick then it's a good place to start.

Entertainment
Music Beat Bar
Difficulty

Pump up the Jam with this beat bar! Get a visual display that bounces in tune with the music.

Test & Tools
Laser Beam Timer
Difficulty

Here's a handy little project that uses a little known feature of LEDs, and also has a laser in it, which makes it even cooler.

Entertainment
Arduino Learning
Difficulty

Arduino® is an open source hardware and software prototyping environment, but what does this mean?

Portable Soil Moisture Meter
Test & Tools
Portable Soil moisture meter
Difficulty

This is a great little tool for the green thumbs.

Micro ROS Controller
Stem
Micro ROS Controller
Difficulty

Control your ROS projects with a simple to build controller

DIY Self-Driving Kit
Difficulty

Entertainment
Microbit Heart Finder
Difficulty

Get started with the Microbit starter pack and this neat little game!

Power Usage Monitor
Power
Power Usage Monitor
Difficulty

In this project we built a current meter using the AC712 current sensor, instead of just displaying or reporting current measurements we made the project a little more interesting by calculating power consumption (which is just POWER = CURRENT x VOLTAGE), and reporting the power consumption via email.

Microbit Christmas
Festive
Microbit Christmas
Difficulty

Combine a micro:bit XC4320 and breakout board XC4330 to create an electronic christmas tree using up to 12 LEDs and your own imagination.

TEST & TOOLS
How to remove Header pins
Difficulty

Many off-the-shelf modules have header pins that can be difficult to work with, whether they are facing the right way or are the wrong configuration (vertical instead of horizontal, vice versa.)

Low Battery Alarm
Power
Low Battery Alarm
Difficulty

Simple alerts with the low battery alarm

Sight & Sound
Ultrasonic Parking Assistant
Difficulty

We saw a version of this project in The Shed Magazine, and thought it would be perfect to build using our duinotech parts.

Stem
Wall Dodging Robot
Difficulty

This clever robot is the perfect way to get started with robotics.

Arduino Based LED Tester
Test & Tools
Arduino Based LED Tester
Difficulty

A handy little tool that can help you out if you work with LED’s a lot, especially if you are always trying to work out the right resistor to make them work.

Pan Tilt Camera
Security & Surveillance
Pan Tilt Camera
Difficulty

Raspberry Pi and Servo motors to make a motion security camera

Duinotech Thermostat
Test & Tools
Duinotech Thermostat
Difficulty

Here's a project that will take you into the world beyond the basics of the Duinotech Learning Kit.

Stem
Snake Game
Difficulty

Here's the first of our mini projects that you can build from parts in the XC3900 kit.

Jaycar DIY Christmas Star
Festive
Jaycar DIY Christmas Star
Difficulty

Festive
LED Basic Christmas Tree
Difficulty

Here's a good project for a beginner, which can add a bit of Christmas spirit to your workbench, and also teach you how multiple LED's can be controlled from a handful of microcontroller pins.

DC Power Meter
DC Power Meter
Difficulty

Have a power source you need to measure the voltage of? Or want to see how much current you're putting through your projects? Have a go of our easy mini DC Power Meter project.

Jaycar-RCT-Hero
Test & Tools
Resistor & Capacitor Tester
Difficulty

Here's another easy to build project similar to the LED tester, and using the same hardware.

Test & Tools
Mailbox Notifier
Difficulty

Get a quick alert on your phone when you get a new letter in the mailbox!

WiFi LED Lightstrip
WiFi Controlled Strip Lighting
Difficulty

Control some dazzling RGB effects with ESP8266 and Vue.js Web App! Want to decorate your loungeroom or living areas with cool lighting effects from your mobile phone? With this kit you can!

Portable Digital Compass
Portable Digital Compass
Difficulty

Not just a great project for the coming holiday break, this compass can be used to find your way home.

Festive
Christmas Light Controller
Difficulty

Have you lost or broken the controller for your christmas lights this season?

Installing and Setting Up the XC0440 Weather Station
TEST & TOOLS
Installing and Setting Up The XC0440 Weather Station
Difficulty

Even individuals who aren't technologically inclined will find the XC0440 Wi-Fi Weather Station to be an accessible yet comprehensive tool. We demonstrate just how simple it is to install and set up.

TEST & TOOLS
Lithium Battery USB Charger - Powering your Arduino Project
Difficulty

So you’ve just finished building your Arduino project, and it’s happily running off the USB lead hanging out of your computer.

Secret Knock Detector
Secret Knock Detector
Difficulty

We saw this project on Instructables, and had to try it for ourselves. Of course, we ended up using all the Duinotech parts we had around.

Test & Tools
ATtiny Programmer Shield
Difficulty

The best thing about at the ATtiny85 IC is undoubtedly its size, but this also makes it difficult to program.

HCF-August-Oscilloscope
Test & Tools
Simple Duinotech Oscilloscope
Difficulty

This little test tool is designed to be easily put together if you need a very basic 'scope in a hurry.

Arcade Joystick
Entertainment
Arcade Joystick
Difficulty

There's a lot of arcade emulators out there that can run on many computers including the Raspberry Pi so it only makes sense to play these emulators on some authentic hardware. Here we'll show you how to build an arcade style joystick using our new Arcade Pushbuttons and Arcade Joystick. We've got a Leonardo main board to emulate a USB keyboard so it can be used with any software that you can play with a keyboard. Just like any other Arduino design, it can of course be customised to more buttons or even mapped to different keys. We've built ours in an ABS enclosure for portability but there's no reason you couldn't mount the controls directly to an arcade cabinet or even a coffee table.

Power
LoRa Remote Relay
Difficulty

We are very excited to get the chance to play with our new LoRa Shields, and test just how far we could get a signal using LoRa technology.

TEST & TOOLS
Coding Shield Project
Difficulty

The Coding Shield Project is inspired by the ThinkerShield, which has been developed by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences as a tool for teaching coding.

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