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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

When you think of Sony, you probably think of a technology company that’s been around forever. However, as [Asianometry] points out, it really formed in the tough years after World War II.

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

Whether you have full use of your hands or not, a foot-operated keyboard is a great addition to any setup. Of course, it has ...

Peter Demchenko] wanted to use a low power TS555 in an ESR meter design. The problem is, he needed to handle significant current sink requirements for cases where the capacitor under test had a ...

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