The Micro:bit is a fun microcontroller development platform, designed specifically for educational use. Out of the box, it’s ...

The fun part about a programming language like C is that although the language doesn’t directly support many features including object-oriented programming and generics, there’s ...

There are two things most of us want to know on a daily basis—the weather, and what time it is. [Guitarman9119] built a single device that can provide both pieces of information with a pleasingly ...

If you’re not worried about corporate surveillance bots scraping your shopping list and manipulating you through marketing, you can buy any number of off-the-shelf smart speakers for your ...

Can a shape pass through itself? That is to say, if one had two identical solids, would it be possible to orient one such that a hole could be cut through it, allowing the other to pass through ...

I must confess that my mouth froze in an O when I saw [Jeff]’s Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System, and I continue to ...

Among the many science toys that have fallen out of fashion since we started getting nervous around things like mercury, ...

Today, if you can find a pneumatic tube system at all, it is likely at a bank drive-through. A conversation in the Hackaday ...

Since modern household appliances now have an MCU inside, they often have a diagnostic interface and — sometimes — more. Case ...

We make no claims to be an expert on anything, but we do know that rule number one of working with big, expensive, mission-critical equipment is: Don’t break the big, expensive, ...

Over on YouTube [DENKI OTAKU] runs us through how a 4-pin MOSFET works and what the extra Kelvin source pin does. A typical MOSFET might come in a 3-pin TO-247 package, but there are 4-pin ...

Just about every “getting started with microcontrollers” kit, Arduino or otherwise, includes an ultrasonic distance sensor ...