Maurizio tipped us with his latest article on how to use Serial Port in C#. The article does cover the basic code needed to achieve serial communication. The serial port of the PC is a very important resource both in industrial environment and in home-made electronics, due to the...

Researchers at MIT has announced a new RFID chip that is almost impossible to hack and it could mean that an identity thief couldn’t steal your credit card number by sitting next to you. The researchers’ new chip uses a bank of 3.3-volt capacitors as an on-chip energy source. But...

Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT3089, a rugged 800mA wide input voltage range linear regulator with key usability, monitoring and protection features. The device has an extended safe operating area (SOA) compared to existing regulators, making it ideal for high...

educ8s.tv has uploaded another tutorial on how to use a e-paper display with Arduino. Source code is provided. Electronic paper and e-paper are display technologies that mimic the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. Unlike conventional backlit flat panel displays that emit light,...

Daniel Johnson @ danielelectronics.com has build a VFD Tube Clock based on MSP430 microcontroller and explains it's code. I wanted to do a follow-up to my last clock build, the MSP430 Analog Gauge Clock, reusing some of the code from that project, and I had an IV-18 vacuum...

Denis @ envox.hr has designed a great PSU that is reliable, modular, programmable and of course Open source. The power supply is controlled by an Arduino and a touchscreen TFT screen is used to monitor and control it. It comes with a bunch of features you can check on the link...

circuitbasics.com has a nice tutorial on how to use a common Hitachi HD44780 LCD display on Arduino. Many of the functions available are discussed and shown in examples. In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up an LCD display on an Arduino, and show you (with examples) all of...

WojciechM3 @ instructables.com has build an Arduino based soil moisture sensor with character LCD, real time clock and SD card logging. It can be very helpful with a master degree biotechnology/biology/botanics works, however remember that kind of a project can be only add as a...