There are so many nice hacks in [Joekutz]’s retro LED display project that it’s hard to know where to start. There’s his DIY LED display controlled by an Arduino UNO. To have some text or picture for ...

I have started this joystick controller experiment inspired by the need of a simple DIY joystick which could deliver greater flexibility in the possible designs. Hardware component basis is very ...

Sous-vide cooking—cooking food in sealed bags at low and prolonged temperatures—is revolutionizing the way people enjoy food. Rather than spend hundreds of dollars on a commercial machine, Lifehacker ...

No matter the control system that we may be designing, whether it’s a HVAC monitor, motor controller or simple IoT sensor node, the system must control IO. This includes reading and writing digital IO ...

Electronic engineers, developers and hobbyists looking for a fully featured Arduino Mega compatible PLC may be interested in a new Indiegogo campaign launched today for a new development board ...

My daughter likes buttons. She's learning letters. I was bored over winter break and had these parts laying around... so I built her a "Button Box" based around an Arduino. Open source, hackable, and ...

The long-awaited Arduino Due just hit the market, replacing the 8-bit, 16MHz brain of the popular Uno microcontroller prototyping platform with a 32-bit, 84MHz processor, while augmenting inputs and ...

I had cause to have a closer look at some Arduino inputs – it is that fascinating weather station again. It transpires that some Arduino inputs are better at tolerating slowly-changing inputs than ...

Much to the chagrin of hardware tinkerers, the Raspberry Pi doesn’t have analog inputs on its GPIO pins. Sure, you can blink a LED with just a few console commands, but reading sensors with a ...