Vehicles tracking through GPS is one of the useful technologies. But in this time of IoT where everything could be connected through internet, can we connect the GPS through internet and show data on Google maps? Yes! In this IoT project we are building more advanced version this Vehicle Tracking System in which you can Track your Vehicle on Google Maps. In this project, we will send the location coordinates to the Local Server and you just need to open a ‘webpage’ on your computer or mobile, where you will find a Link to Google Maps with your Vehicles Location Coordinates. When you click on that link, it takes you on Google Maps, showing your vehicles location. Here GPS Module is used to get the location coordinates, Wi-Fi module to send data to computer or mobile over Wi-Fi and Arduino is used to make GPS and Wi-Fi talk to each other.

Find out this complete IoT project here

Temperature Measurement using Raspberry Pi

After covering the basic raspberry pi tutorials in previous articles, in this project we are designing first application based on the previous tutorials. The first basic application is a Raspberry Pi Temperature Monitor where you can monitor the temperature readings on computer. For this we have interfaced Raspberry Pi with LM35. You can learn more about LM35 temperature sensor, here

As discussed in previous tutorials, there are no ADC channels provided internally in Raspberry Pi. So if we want to interface any analog sensors we need an ADC conversion unit. And in one of our tutorials we have Interfaced ADC0804 chip to Raspberry Pi to read an analog value. So go through it before building this Room Temperature Thermometer.

DIY Homemade Arduino

Arduino is an open-source development platform for engineers and hobbyists to develop electronics projects in an easy way. It consists of both a physical programmable development board (based on AVR series of microcontrollers) and a piece of software or IDE which runs on your computer and used to write and upload the code to the microcontroller board.

Arduino uses a boot loader. Boot loader is a piece of software that allows the new software to be burned on it. So in this DIY, I am going to discuss “How to Burn a Boot Loader in a Fresh ATmega328 Chip and Build a Homemade Arduino on PCB”. In Arduino UNO we use ATmega328 IC so that I select this one to demonstrate this project.

Read more: How to make homemade Arduino