Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer recreated a...
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Analog TV may have shuffled off its mortal coil years ago, but there are still plenty of old CRT TV...
The WS2812B has become one of the most popular addressable LEDs out there. They’re easy to drive from just about...
Looking for an educational microcontroller board to get you or a loved one into electronics? Consider the tinyCore – a...
If you’ve got an old black and white TV, it’s probably not useful for much. There are precious few analog...
Just about every laptop, desktop, and smartphone in your life can tell you the date, time, and current weather predictions....
upyOS is a modular, lightweight MicroPython-based operating system (OS) that provides a Unix-like experience on low-resource microcontrollers such as Espressif...
We’re all used to emulating older computers here, and we’ve seen plenty of projects that take a cheap microcontroller and...
For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a...
In these days of everything-streaming, it’s great to see an old school radio build. It’s even better when it’s not...
There’s something cool about the visual design language used in the aviation world. You probably don’t get much exposure to...
The current generation of USB-powered soldering irons have a lot going for them, chief among them being portability and automatic...
Making a multi-band amateur radio transceiver has always been a somewhat challenging project, and making one that also supported different...
Each Christmas, , , and (meanwhile going by ‘the Janky Jingle Crew’)—set themselves the challenge of outdoing their previous creations....
When we think of an m.2 slot in our laptop or similar, it’s usually in the context of its PCI...
If Apple has a reputation for anything other than decent hardware and excellent industrial design, it’s for selling its products...
In this edition: * AMSAT OSCAR-7 50th Anniversary – A Testbed for Saving Lives * Another Batch of CubeSatSim Kits...
I recently got one of the new RP2040-based Bus Pirate 5 (BP5), a multi-purpose interface debugging and testing tool. Scanning...
The 555 timer is one of the most versatile integrated circuits available. It can generate PWM signals, tones, and single-shot...
We’ve seen a great many cat feeders over the years. Some rely on the Internet of Things, and some rely...
While classroom learning isn’t for everyone, one awesome benefit of the Internet is that you have a variety of college...
latest endeavor, the B4 Thinker, offers a captivating glimpse into microcontroller architecture through a modular approach. This proof-of-concept project is...
Battery management is a tedious but necessary problem that becomes more of a hassle with lithium-ion technology. As we’re all...
The proliferation of microcontrollers has made it easier than ever to add some smarts to a project, but sometimes there...
Ian from Dangerous Prototypes demonstrating the RP2350-E9 issue in a Bus Pirate prototype without pull-ups. There’s currently a significant amount...
