Here is a LED matrix able to show useful information such as weather forecast, temperature and stock updates. The matrix is controlled by a Particle Photon board. You wake up in the morning. You're groggy. You grab your phone lazily and start browsing. You check the weather, your...

Maxim Integrated has posted details of the MAX44299, a low-side current, voltage, and power monitoring circuit that provides an analogue output current proportional to the measured current, voltage, and the internally calculated instantaneous power. The power monitor offers high...

Western Digital have launched the WD PiDrive, a hard disk specially designed for the Raspberry Pi with a storage space of 314 GB. The engineers have modified the magnetic recording system and electronics to suit the characteristics of the RPi, and reduced the current...

cnlohr @ github.com wanted to have an Ethernet interface for ESP8266 so he build one. more details on hackaday. This is a relatively unreliable and coincidentally functional ESP8266 Ethernet driver. It only uses two pins on the ESP, the I2S pins, but does provide Ethernet. It does...

euerdesign.de has connected the ESP8266 to an GPS and a SD-Card to scan networks – coded a MySQL-DB with some PHP parsers and dynamic maps – and get fascinated by all the 2,4 GHz radiation arround him. In this blogpost, you can only read about finding and printing out maps with...

LoRaONE is a new board to help you develop IoT applications fast and with ease. It's an Arduino compatible board packed with features and sensors, making it the ideal solution for makers and creators that can’t wait to make the Internet of Things a reality. It is easy to program,...

bitknitting.wordpress.com documented his efforts to transmit data over the I2C interface and analyze traffic using a USB login analyzer. The goal of this post is to transmit data over the I2C interface. Confirmation that the data was transferred will be output of the SDA/SCL lines...

Sparkfun has their own Eagle libraries available on github.com. This is a great resource for new board designs. They also have a guide on how to install the libraries and how to create custom footprints. This is the complete SparkFun Electronics default foot prints for Eagle 6.0+. We...