SeeedStudio has published a PCB design manual to help makers and engineers design better PCBs. The guide covers many aspects of PCB design for manufacture summarizing the experience of their PCB service over the last 9 years. PCB Design for manufacture -...

Apple said goodby to 3.5mm audio jack in Iphone 7 by adding the audio signal to USB plug besides the other functionalities. While Iphone is a pioneer brand, a lot of manufacturers in the near future will drop that analog jack. However, your ear responds to analog signals only. So either...

moosepr @ hackaday.io writes: My attempt to get the smallest, simplest GameBoy style device, based on the pi Zero. Pi Zero Gameboy = GameBoy Zero -...

A Programmable LED dimmer from Soldernerd: Around one and a half years ago I’ve designed and built various LED dimmers for both white and RGB LEDs. Then late last year someone approached me asking if I could make an RGB dimmer for him, too. But my designs were really tailored to...

abhishek123 @ instructables.com writes: This project aims to Control the intensity of the dimmable lighting appliances via a trailing edge dimmer. Provide the user , ability to control lightsindependently and wirelessly over the Wi-Fi network and the Internet! Multichannel...

Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com discuss about a new IoT board to the market. Distributor Arrow Electronics has extended its range of IoT development boards with the SmartEverything Panther. The Panther board enables users to add pattern recognition capabilities to their...

by Michael Irving @ newatlas.com: The next big breakthrough for electronics is likely to be quantum computers, which will increase digitized memory capacity exponentially and allow scientists to start tackling problems that our classical computers have no hope of handling right now....

A tiny 32-bit Arduino compatible light, sound, & motion controller you can program yourself! The Firecricket is an Arduino compatible light, sound, and motion controller featuring a 48MHz 32-bit ARM Cortex M0+ microcontroller w/ 16K of RAM, a MicroSD slot so you can store sound...