A reader contributes a circuit idea for triggering a stop-motion camera setup and a dialog between the author and Electronic Design's Anoop Hegde illuminates the circuit design process. Fig 1. This ...

The diagram above is a typical PCB layout in Altium Circuitmaker software. The days of “electro” and “mechanical” being separate disciplines are long gone. Virtually all mechanical systems now come ...

One of the coolest things any sound system can have is some kind of musical visualization. Thumping level meters that pump with the volume are a great example, and were particularly popular in the ...

The rise of low-cost, hacker-friendly electronics is fueling a new wave of hardware hobbyists. Using programmable boards like the Arduino and dirt-chip computers like the Raspberry Pi, you can build ...

Turning a Raspberry Pi into a motion sensing security camera is a classic Pi project, but Microsoft’s put together a bit of a spin on the classic by showing off how to build one using Windows IoT.

The visual scene as projected onto the retina contains a wealth of information about the environment, such as the color of individual objects, their depth in space and the direction in which they are ...