Unlike the today’s consumer computer market, the 1980s were the wild west in comparison. There were all kinds of different, ...

As we slowly wean ourselves away from our centuries-long love affair with fossil fuels in an attempt to reduce CO2 emissions ...

Sometimes, simple things can make a world of difference. Take for example a non-verbal person who can’t necessarily control a ...

What can you do with a cheap Linux machine with limited flash and only a single free GPIO line? Probably not much, but ...

Sometimes, we build things with LEDs as indicator lamps or to illuminate something important. Sometimes, we build things with LEDs purely to glow and be beautiful. This interactive light toy from ...

Once upon a time, RC planes were expensive models that took months to build and big money to equip with electronics. Since the 20th century though, powerful batteries have become cheap, as have ...

You shouldn’t play with your food. Unless you’re designing some kind of portable cannon to fling it across the room. That’s precisely what [Backhaul Studios] did. The first step ...

Launching things with electromagnetism is pretty fun, with linear induction motors being a popular design that finds use from everywhere in hobby designs like [Tom Stanton]’s to the ...

Last time, I gave you an overview of what you get from I2C, basics like addressing, interface speeds, and a breakdown of pullups. Today, let’s continue looking into I2C capabilities and ...

If you follow the world of clean energy, you will probably have read all about the so-called hydrogen future and the hydrogen ...

There’s currently a significant amount of confusion around the full extent of the GPIO hardware issue in the Raspberry Pi ...

For almost as long as there have been microcomputers, there have been attempts with varying success to make tiny handheld ...