It has been one month since the Autodesk’s acquisition of Cadsoft. After the acquisition, they redesigned the website and changed the domain name from cadsoftusa.com to cadsoft.io. It seems that Autodesk is going very fast toward sharing with community what they intend to do with...

Every maker and electronics hobbyist knows how hardware is messy. A lot of tools are needed in our labs like voltmeter, oscilloscope, breadboard, wires, power supply, etc. A startup form India designed a new platform called Evive as an all-in-one solution to build and debug your...

Thanks to Internet, the problem of time shifting in embedded and connected devices was solved using time synchronization over Internet. National Institute of Standards and Technology provides a service called Network Time Service (NTS) over the Internet. The project of ESP8266-based...

The AriCalculator is a DIY calculator or a general purpose handheld device. It is battery powered and runs on a NXP S12G240 microcontroller (16-bit, 240k flash, 11k RAM). The device has 38 input keys and a 128x64 pixel LCD display with a backlight option. Three interfaces connect...

Sunburn Monitor is a UV monitor with sound-based indication. It calculates the max sun exposure before sunburn based on your skin type. The project was published over hackaday.io by [Quarterturn]. It's based around SI1132 light sensor from Silicon Labs. SI1132 is a UV index and...

It has been a while from the announcement of the new SoC ESP32 from Espressif. Recently, Espressif released the ESP-WROOM-32 module which is based on ESP32 SoC, the big brother of the well know ESP8266 WiFi module. ESP32 is a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip with dual CPU cores...

Michael Dunn has designed a circuit that is able to double the input voltage and breaks DC path. I once needed a voltage doubler circuit with no DC leakage path between input and output, and ended up devising this unusual 556- (dual 555 timer) based circuit with a "floating" voltage...

An optical micro-displacement sensor from Omron Electronic Components Europe is capable of resolving 10 microns – one tenth the diameter of a human hair or the thickness of a coat of paint. by Graham Prophet @ edn-europe.com The high resolution of the Z4D sensor suits...