The Arduino IDE has to use one of its timers in fast PWM mode (timer 0) and fudges the 0% setting with a trick: by detecting the ‘0’ command, which the hardware would convert to its 1/256 setting, in ...

Droplet and StackAR, developed by MIT’s Media Lab, allow users to set timers or program an Arduino using light-based communication. By pressing the tool against a screen, flashes of light can ...

[ZHut] managed to bring these two worlds together by presenting how to make an Arduino blink an LED in conjunction with a 555 timer. We know, we know. It is hard to decide how to comment about this.