When it comes to electronic design, breadboarding a circuit is the fun part — the creative juices flow, parts come and go, jumpers build into a tangled mess, but it’s all worth it when the circuit finally comes to life. then comes the “What have I done?” phase, where you’ve got to backtrack through the […]

[Elite Worm] had a problem; there had been two minor burglaries from a storage unit. The system had thick concrete walls, cellular signal was bad down there, and long-term wiring wasn’t possible. He therefore set about working on a burglar alarm that would in shape his unique requirements. An ESP32 is the heart of the […]

all of us understand that you can convert warm into electricity. Usually, you do that with some type of steam, however there are other methods, too, including thermocouples. If you’ve ever seen something creating squander heat, you’ll appreciate Penn State’s work to gather power from hot pipes. The concept is easy in theory: produce a […]

My singing Monsters is one of those mobile titles that has individuals play easy games to make coins as well as gems in the typical way. [Anykey] discovered that his child was a fan of the game, however that in some cases it felt a bit rigged. Thus, rather than squander time playing themselves, he […]

High-voltage experimenters have been using automotive ignition coils to generate excellent sparks in the home lab for decades, and why not? They’re cheap, easily obtainable, and at the end of the day, producing sparks is literally what they’re created to do. but that doesn’t indicate there isn’t room for improvement. In his most current Plasma […]

Last year we wrote about [Alex Spataru]’s Serial studio project, which started life as serial port data visualizer, like a souped-up version of the Arduino serial plotter. [Alex] has been actively improving the project ever since, adding a variety of new features, including JSON editor for data formats TCP, UDP, and Multicast New and a […]

We remember when getting Linux on your average desktop computer was a difficult enough endeavor that only those with the most glamorous of graybeards would even attempt it. A “Linux box” in those heady days was a lot more than likely an outdated maker salvaged from the dumpster, side panel forever removed, cranking away in […]

You know the feeling — you’re making good progress on a weekend project, you’re really in the groove, things are going right. right up until you run out of that one Thing™ that you can’t do without, the only store that sells it is closed, and you get a sudden case of whiplash as your […]