Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, and other SBCs or microcontrollers offer those who are creatively-minded unique ...

Recently, I wanted to build a Sleepy-LED Eye as an add-on indicator for a small personal project. My idea is a near-replica of the iconic breathing pattern used for the “sleep” indicator in Apple ...

Creating capacitive touch-sensitive buttons is easy these days; many microcontrollers have cap-sense hardware built-in. This will work for simple on/off control, but what if you want a linear, ...

This article will show you a simple and inexpensive way to make your own portable power supply for microcontroller experiments and the like by hacking a mobile phone power bank. The proposed power ...

A common enough microcontroller project is to create some form of logic analyzer. In theory, it should be pretty easy: grab some digital inputs, store them, and display them. But, of course, the devil ...

In need of a simple microcontroller board for your project? Then, an Arduino board might be exactly what you're looking for. This open-source hardware platform comes in a multitude of versions, from ...