WiFi controllable motors for your many projects. An Open Source platform that anyone can use. Using our motors is as simple as joining your motors network (or adding the device to an existing network) and controlling it with any of our apps, its built it webpage, or just raw JSON...

Jan @ jasiek.me decided to use a flatbed scanner to trace out a footprint in KiCad. [via] Some time ago I sourced a number of very cheap SD card sockets from China for a hobby project I was working on. Sadly, when it came to PCB design, I couldn't find the footprints for this...

Scaling large values to be fed on limited input digital meters, application note from Murata. [via] It is oftentimes necessary to attenuate “large” input signals down to a level that more closely matches the input range of a selected meter. For example, suppose the signal to be...

Denis Meyer @ elektormagazine.com discuss how the researchers improved the resolution of retinal prostheses. A retinal prosthesis substitutes for the photo-receptor cells of the defective retina. It’s composed of a camera carried in spectacles; electronics that processes the camera...

Welcome to the 4th post of the “Exploring Eagle CAD ULPs” series. Every week we will publish a new post about one useful ULP in Eagle CAD. “ULP” User Language Program is a plain text file which is written in a C­-like syntax and can be used to access the EAGLE data...

When I started to deal with Chinese electronics suppliers from websites like Alibaba, Aliexpress and Taobao, I discovered that there are huge amount of undiscovered tools from the Chinese market. They are not easily discovered, maybe due to the Chinese language barrier, especially when we...

mikeselectricstuff @ youtube.com shares his wearable insulin tear-down. This is an interesting device to tear-down so take a look. Omnipod wearable insulin pump teardown -...

In this video educ8s.tv is going to build a DIY Altimeter using the UBLOX NEO-6M GPS module along with a color OLED display with the SSD1331 driver. About a year ago, I built some GPS projects using this GPS shield. This shield is great but unfortunately it is no longer available for...