HOW TO USE a VIBRATION SENSOR- VISUINO TUTORIAL WITH ARDUINO

2026-03-23 | By Ron Cutts

License: GNU Lesser General Public License Bluetooth / BLE Displays Motors Arduino ESP32

In this tutorial, we will use a vibration sensor, an LED, a buzzer, a resistor, an Arduino Uno, and Visuino to make a beep when vibration is detected.

Watch the demonstration video.

What You Will Need

Arduino UNO (can be any other Arduino)
Breadboard (or breadboard shield)
Red LED (or any other color)
Pull-up resistor (50k ohm)
Vibration sensor
Buzzer
Visuino program: Download Visuino

What You Will Need

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What You Will Need photo 7

The Circuit

The connections are pretty easy; see the above image with the breadboard circuit schematic.

Connect GND from the Arduino to the breadboard
Connect GND to the buzzer pin (-).
Connect Arduino digital pin 7 to the buzzer pin (+).
Connect Arduino digital pin (13) to the LED pin (+).
Connect the LED pin (-) to GND
Connect the Arduino pin (5V) to the pull-up resistor
Connect the vibration sensor (pin1) to the pull-up resistor
Connect the vibration sensor (pin 2) to the Arduino Analog pin (A0)

The Circuit

Start Visuino, and select the Arduino UNO board type.

To start programming the Arduino, you will need to have the Arduino IDE installed from here: http://www.arduino.cc/.

Please be aware that there are some critical bugs in Arduino IDE 1.6.6. Make sure that you install 1.6.7 or higher; otherwise, this will not work! If you have not done so, follow the steps here to set up the Arduino IDE to program the ESP8266! The Visuino: https://www.visuino.com also needs to be installed. Start Visuino as shown in the first picture. Click on the "Tools" button on the Arduino component (Picture 1) in Visuino. When the dialog appears, select "Arduino UNO" as shown in Picture 2

Start Visuino, and Select the Arduino UNO Board Type

Start Visuino, and Select the Arduino UNO Board Type photo 2

Add and Connect Pulse Generator, Logic Gates, Repeat, and LED Component

Add a pulse generator and set frequency to 1000 (it will auto-change to 1E3)
Add RepeatDigital component set count to 10
Add a Logic gate AND component
Add an LED component

Add and Connect Pulse Generator, Logic Gates,Repeat and LED Component

In Visuino: Connecting Components

Connect RepeatDigital1 component pin[In] to Arduino Analog Out pin[0]
Connect RepeatDigital1 component pin[Out] to And1 component pin [0]
Connect And1 component pin[out] to Arduino digital pin[7]
Connect PulseGenerator1 component pin[out] to And1 component pin[1]
Connect Led1 component pin[In] to And1 component pin[Out]
Connect Led1 component pin[Out] to Arduino Digital pin[13]

In Visuino: Connecting Components

In Visuino: Connecting Components photo 2

Play

If you power the Arduino UNO module, the Buzzer will BEEP, and the LED will blink if you shake the vibration sensor.

Congratulations! You have completed your vibration sensor project with Visuino. Also attached is the Visuino project that I created for this. You can download and open it in Visuino: https://www.visuino.com