Rupert Hirst shares his thoughts on creating a V-USB based media volume control: Although you may think a rotary encoder is just a rotary encoder, when selecting one for a specific purpose such as a volume knob, the feel  and quality can play a large part in your design decision....

educ8s.tv uploaded a new video on Raspberry Pi Sense Hat Tutorial: Dear friends, in this tutorial we are going to take a first look at the impressive Sense Hat add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. It was developed for the Astro Pi mission and 2 of these boards are deployed to the...

A how-to on using the BMP180 barometric sensor with the Arduino @ Random Nerd Tutorials: The BMP180 barometric sensor (model GY-68) is the one in the following figure (front and back view). It is a very small module with 1mm x 1.1mm (0.039in x 0.043in). It measures the absolute...

This tutorial is for helping you to flash firmware in your favorite ESP8266 module. First i small introduction to ESP8266: The ESP8266 is a low-cost Wi-Fi chip with full TCP/IP stack and microcontroller capability produced by Shanghai-based Chinese manufacturer, Espressif. The chip...

A tiny wireless capsule camera for medical imaging or space-constrained environments. by Ryan Bailey @ hackaday.io: Tiny, pill-sized cameras are frequently used in the medical field to visualize the gastrointestinal tract, particularly areas not readily accessible by bulkier...

TallMan's lab @ runawaybrainz.blogspot.com build a nice looking and simple analog ESR capacitor meter based on a EEVBlog forum topic. I finally got round to making my capacitor ESR tester this week after finding a nice simple 5 transistor version by EEVBlog member Jay_Diddy_B....

MikroElektronika, the microcontroller development boards and accessory boards manufacturer, introduced a new development board for beginners and non-experts called Flip & Click. Flip & Click is a rapid prototyping tool that is an Arduino Due on one side, and four mikroBUS™...

Biosensors for consumer wearable devices is a new trend as it facilitates multiplexed physiological monitoring for quantitative assessment of body functions. Highly functional wearable biosensors that can also provide meaningful diagnostics to guide therapeutics would be extremely...