A rather common component found in a lot of platformer games is some form of spring board that when jumped from ejects the player with a higher velocity than if they jumped from any other surface.

After having bought the Diablo 3 Mouse and Headset, I decided to pick up a new keyboard from SteelSeries too given how good the quality of the previous two products were.

When it comes to creating a more permanent solution for your Arduino prototypes, there’s a good chance that you’ll be looking to reduce the amount of physical real estate being used; enter the ATTiny microcontroller.

Extending further on the previous guides I have written on utilising HD44780 based LCD screens with an Arduino, I am going to show you how to print custom glyphs / characters by using the Glyphduino library.

This guide will show you how to use a push button to toggle an LCD screen’s backlight on for a set amount of time and then turn itself back off, as can be seen in the demo video below.