“Ultimate Electronics” is a Free Interactive Electronics Textbook
The creator of the CircuitLab simulation software, now used in electronics courses at MIT, CMU, and other top universities, has just released the first few chapters of a new book. It’s called...
View ArticleHow to Select a Voltage Regulator
Sanket @ octopart.com tipped us with his latest blog post about voltage regulators and how to select them. All electronics projects need power. Power can come from either stored energy in a battery, or...
View ArticleChromatron – Wifi Pixel Controller
Chromatron is an open source Wifi pixel controller designed to make LED pixel projects easy and fun. Hi, I’m Jeremy! I’ve designed a toolkit for making art with LED pixel strips, and I’d like to share...
View Article1Amp Constant Current LED Driver Shield for Arduino Nano
1A Constant current LED driver shield for Arduino Nano has been designed for verity of LED related applications. The shield provides accurate LED current sink to regulate LED current in a string of...
View ArticleLearn Arduino Easily with The Arduino Inventor’s Guide
Are you looking for Arduino tutorials? Already over-whelmed by the guides and videos available on the internet? Sparkfun is making Arduino and electronics easier for you with its new book ” The...
View ArticleMeet Spritzer, Sony New Arduino
Sony has recently launched one of its new products, Spritzer! Spritzer is an Arduino-compatible board for IoT applications that has built-in GPS, audio codec, and low power consumption. While it is...
View ArticleDiamond-Based MOSFETs Are Now Real
A research group at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed logic circuits equipped with diamond-based metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs) at two...
View ArticleAutoPi makes your car intelligent
What if your car was intelligent like KITT in the 80’s TV show Knight Rider? With AutoPi all cars become intelligent and can have eyes, ears and a voice. Until now all functionality and data from cars...
View ArticleArduino FM Radio Project with TEA5767 Radio Module and a Nokia 5110 LCD Display
In this Arduino project video, educ8s.tv is going to build a simple FM Radio using the TEA5767 module with a Nokia LCD display: In this video, we are going to build this. A simple FM Radio receiver on...
View ArticleDIY Arduino Battery Capacity Tester
deba168 @ instructables.com writes: I have salvaged so many old lap-top batteries ( 18650 ) to reuse them in my solar projects.It is very difficult to identify the good cells in battery pack.Earlier...
View ArticleGraphene Electronic Circuits with Atomic Precision
Essential electronic components, such as diodes and tunnel barriers, can be incorporated in single graphene wires (nanoribbons) with atomic precision. The result is a working electronic device that...
View ArticleWatchX is successor of NWatch and it’s Arduino compatible
A team of makers build WatchX which is the successor of NWatch originally designed by Zak Kemble and published here: http://blog.zakkemble.co.uk/diy-digital-wristwatch/ The new watch has improvements...
View ArticleVersatile And Open Source LiPo bBattery Breadboard Power Supply
Orlando Hoilett from Calvary Engineering LLC designed a versatile Li-Po battery breadboard power supply and wrote an Instructables on it. This power supply outputs 3.3V to the breadboard and takes...
View ArticleArduino compatible high precision frequency counter
The concept of this board is to build an open, very versatile frequency counter, so it can be used to measure a wide variety of signals. It is designed to be customizable in every possible way....
View ArticleSignet – Open Source Password Manager
Signet is a compact, open hardware, and free and open source software USB device that safely stores your passwords, bookmarks, contacts, and other personal data in encrypted memory. It’s compatible...
View ArticleSculpto+: The world’s most user-friendly desktop 3D printer
Sculpto+ is a compact desktop 3D printer and app-based software that makes 3D printing more accessible than ever before. 3D printers are one of the coolest and most efficient ways for you to make your...
View ArticleDNA Extruder – Fastest, Precision at Home Filament Extruder
Fastest consumer level extruder on the market. High quality & precision filament, thanks to a new & innovative approach to the process. The 3D printing community is growing and innovating each...
View ArticleCoulomb Transistor — A New Concept Where Metal Nanoparticles Are Used In...
A research group at the University of Hamburg has created a unique coulomb transistor that operates on the principle of the voltage control of the electron band gap in metallic quantum-dot...
View ArticleTurn Your iPad Into A Second Screen with Luna
It is possible now to turn your iPad into a second display using Luna Display! Luna Display is a hardware solution that extends your Mac desktop to your iPad, creating a wireless second monitor...
View ArticleTeardown and experiments with a Doppler microwave transceiver
Kerry Wong did a teardown of Microsemi’s C900502 X-band planar transceiver: I got a couple of Microsemi’s C900502 10.525 GHz X-band Doppler radar motion sensors a while ago. This batch was made in UK...
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