John Whittington decided to build a Nixie tube energy meter to measure his house power consumption.  An Arduino would be the microcontroller but I wanted the meter to provide some form of data stream for a web based energy history. To make it an IoT, I a paired ESP8266 with it. I...

educ8s.tv reviews the Teensy 3.2 Arduino compatible board and examines if it's compatible with his existing sketches. If you need a small but powerful Arduino board, Teesy 3.2 is the best board available today. In this video we take a first look at Teensy 3.2 board, we set it up and...

loovee @ instructables.com has build an automatic humidifier that will monitor temperature and humidity and will act if the situation is not ideal. Water Atomization is a perfect module for you to develop an atomizer or an atomizer module in your applications easily. With just a few...

In this episode Shahriar reviews the Keysight EXA Signal Analyzer / Spectrum Analyzer (N9010A). The X-Series Signal Analyzers and Spectrum analyzers from Keysight are compared against each other. The EXA is a general purpose spectrum analyzer with extensive applications. Keysight...

Nobilis @ instructables.com has build a lead acid float charger out of an old phone wall charger: If you do not use your motorbike on the winter or your car stands for weeks -- you better have a float charger connected to the battery. Otherwise you probably encounter engine starting...

The MAXREFDES73# reference design from Maxim Integrated is a wearable, mobile galvanic skin response (GSR) system featuring the MAX32600 wellness measurement microcontroller. his battery-powered platform takes high-precision AC impedance measurements while consuming minimal power....

M Rule @ crawlingrobotfortress.blogspot.com discuss about ways to optimize 3D rendering on ILI9341 LCD and Arduino: Both optimizing ILI9341 LCD drivers and rendering basic wireframe meshes have been done before. XarkLabs provides an optimized fork of Adafruit's library. Youtube...

A very close look at the new Raspberry Pi, include a die-dcap of the SOC (system on chip) and looking at what some of the silkscreen text means Raspberry Pi Zero Extreme Teardown -...