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 "Ultimate Electronics: Practical Circuit Design and Analysis," and it's available free online....

Using solar energy to split water provides an efficient way for large scale renewable energy conversion and storage. A group of researchers from TUDelft and AMOLF have successfully developed an efficient and stable photo-electrode that could improve water splitting with solar...

Despite ATtiny series is considered extremely cheap and useful, still there is a lack of projects and tutorials about it. In this tutorial, you will learn how to start building applications using ATtiny13 microcontroller programmed using Arduino IDE. First of all, ATtiny13 is a...

Make Your Own Pic Programmer and Debugger. by reviahh @ reviahh.wordpress.com After using the Microchip tools to program and debug the projects I work on, I wondered about creating my own programming/debugging module that I could put on my own boards – just like Microchip does with...

With a $99 evaluation kit/module, Texas Instruments aims to widen design-ins of its projection-based, ultra-compact display technology. By Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com Developers can, TI says, implement DLP (‘digital light processing’) display technology with almost...

Dinesh Bhatia @ indiegogo.com writes: tinyLiDAR provides Arduino users simplified access to cutting-edge smartphone-technology. Don't pull your hair out! Now you can use ST's latest Time-of-Flight sensor easily with tinyLiDAR. Its the low cost "easy button" of distance sensors. We've...

Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering project by Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail spacecraft, named StarChip, capable of making the journey to the Alpha Centauri star system, 4.37 light-years away, at speeds between 15%...

In November 2016, we launched our "Buy Parts" section in partnership with OEMSecrets. It is a search engine for electronic parts with many useful capabilities. This is a time saving tool which will help makers find the best offers for their needs by entering the MPN. By providing a...