A lot of great ICs use I2C to communicate, but debugging a non-working I2C setup can be opaque, especially if you’re just getting started with the protocol/bus. An I2C bus scanner can be a he… ...

For Christmas, [Lior] received a Baofeng UV5R radio. He didn’t have an amateur radio license, so he decided to use it as a police scanner. Since the schematics were available, he cracked it o… ...

Next steps shows how the master (Arduino) reads from the slave I2C device. Wire.requestFrom(address, 1) command expects to receive 1 byte of data from the TC74 sensor. Wire.available() waits for data ...

The Arduino has long since proven itself to be one of the biggest boons to DIY heads since the soldering iron, but that doesn't mean it's not still able to impress, as amply demonstrated by this ...