Articles tagged with “uart”

How to use FPC1020A Capacitive Fingerprint Identification Module with Arduino

About one year ago I have purchased a widely available fingerprint identification module with UART interface. You can find this module almost everywhere for quite a decent price. However, the information about how to use it with Arduino is not that easy to find. I am interested to use it with the URU Card [/2020/06/29/uru-card-arduino-fido2-authenticator/] device so I took some time to play with it.

Can ESP01 be used as a receiver for the drone?

Recently I was exploring the differences between IBUS and SBUS protocols used in remote controls. The IBUS protocol appears to be a very simple half-duplex UART operating on speed 115200 baud. Packets of a fixed size, simple checksum calculation... Wait a second. What if we take the dirt-cheap ESP01 module, program it as the receiver and operate it with the smartphone? In just half an hour the minimal prototype was built.