The JHD162A display controller is a monochrome LCD module which you can find bundled with various Arduino starter kits or on their own; usually in the price range of around $10.

If you are trying to integrate with Magento using the v2 API in WS-I compliance mode, you’re going to soon realise that any additional attributes you specify when calling the catalogProductCreate method are not going to show up in the product you create; as I so frustratingly found out after a good few hours of debugging!

This guide will show you how to create a feature that has become a requirement in one of my latest projects; that being an aim assist which will rotate around your character to point in the same direction as where the mouse is on screen.

At one point or another, you’re inevitability going to run into the problem of not having enough pins on your Arduino to meet the requirements of your project or prototype. The solution to this problem? A shift register!

Over the past few days I decided to take a step back from hacking together stuff with the Arduino and to instead take the time to read up more on the fundamentals of electronics that I imagined everyone should be aware of; that being how voltage, current and resistance work in a circuit.