rjkorn @ instructables.com shows us his Arduino Smoker Controller: I had made a Sous Vide controller and thought it might work well for my smoker too. All I really had to do was change the sensor form a Dallas 18B20 to a thermocouple. The Dallas sensor tops out at about 250 degrees...

The Signal Path Blog published another video reviewing  FLIR MR160 Thermal Imaging & Moisture Meter: In this episode Shahriar takes a close look at the FLIR MR160 Thermal Imaging and Moisture Meter. Featuring Infrared Guided Measurement (IGM) technology powered by a FLIR...

Geiger Backpack is a device that measures ambient radioactivity and GPS position and saves them on a cloud database using your smartphone as a WiFi hotspot. Our project is a portable device powered by an Intel Edison and equipped with a GPS receiver and a Geiger Tube, a sensor able...

2 Digit Count Down Timer is a utility Count Down timer project for upto 99 seconds of countdown time. This project can find many uses in your shack and home. The relay output remains on during the Count Down period, allowing you to interface load or alarm that you want to keep it on...

Matthew Filipek from Cornell Univercity has build a nice smart watch with 1.7 inch touch screen, SD card, Bluetooth module and various apps. One of the main inspirations for this project was Jared Sanson's implementation of a DIY smartwatch (REF 0). With several design iterations, he...

Serialusb is a cheap (~$5) USB proxy intended to be used with input devices. It is the combination of: a PC software operating the host side of the proxy an atmega32u4 firmware operating the device side of the proxy SerialUSB: A cheap USB proxy for input devices -...

Raj @ embedded-lab.com has posted another great tutorial on how to interface a Nokia 5110 LCD to chipKIT board. Today, we will see how to connect a NOKIA 5110 graphical LCD (used in Nokia 5110 cell phones), which is a 84×48 pixel monochrome display of about 1.5″ diagonal in size....

Boris Landoni shows us how to create G-Code using Eagle PCB design software: To create a PCB with 3Drag , by milling , it is necessary to have the G-Code files for the tracks patterning and for the holes relating to the printed circuit board itself. In this section we describe how to...