[mircemk] shows how to create a simple non-contact proximity sensor using little more than an Arduino Nano board, and a convenient software library intended to measure the value of capacitors.

Hell, if you only need to detect if an object is tilted, you can get a simple “ball in a tube” tilt sensor for pennies. [tamberg] liked this idea, but he required a tilt sensor that works in ...

The below circuit diagram shows the complete hardware wiring setup of the Arduino-based Smart Walking Stick for the Blind ...

This robot is great for testing new projects like self-driving and object detection. The knowledge gained will be use full for building autonomous robots, improving warehouse automation, or even ...

Check out the latest Lab Notes. We cover interesting innovations from Embedded World, sensors, upcomping editions of Elektor, ...