SiFive, a startup from San Francisco, is trying to democratize the access to the world of SoC designing and manufacturing by giving the ability of customizing silicon to the smallest company, inventor, or maker, and taking “the hard parts of building chips working with 3rd part IP, EDA...

Michael Ossmann shared some of his practical experience and insights in designing RF PCBs, Michael designed a lot of RF PCBs like HackRF One, which is an open source SDR (Software Defined Radio) platform. Michael tips don’t include talking about Smith charts, Q factor, S parameters...

EasyEDA is a cloud-based EDA tool suite which supports open source and working collaboratively. Tools from EasyEDA include circuit simulation using Spice, PCB design, electronic circuit design and now RS-274X (Gerber) and Excellon gerber viewer, all are free. To use this viewer you need...

Vincenzopaolo FlameE @ instructables.com shows us how to create an external hardware monitor based on Arduino and Nokia LCD display. Communication with the PC is done using Visual Basic program. Hi guys! Today I will show you how create an external hardware monitor with any Arduino...

Peak is a smart lamp that combines light, encouraging messages and a personal improvement algorithm to help you form better habits. Peak is the first smart lamp that helps people form better habits in small, progressive steps. Developing new habits is challenging. We often resist...

The Two Digit UP Counter project built using PIC16F1825 Microcontroller from Microchip, CAT4016 serial to display driver IC from ON-Semiconductor and two 7 Segment common anode 0.5 Inch display. Project works using two switches S3 and S2, third switch has no use. When switch S3 is...

One of the biggest problems you could face in your current/next project, is when you’re out of free inputs to use. Sometimes you can save a lot of inputs using some tricks, and there’re really a lot of them. In this blog post we’re going to know how you can use many push buttons...

DHT11 is a common humidity & temperature sensor. This sensor has a single wire serial interface with special timing diagram for the single wire interface. When the MCU sends a start signal, DHT11 sends a response signal followed by the humidity reading and then the...