Month: April 2016

This is an Amiga 2000 Graphics Card (Zorro II), written in Verilog by user "mntmn" @ github.com: This repository contains my Kicad schematics and Xilinx ISE/Verilog files for my graphics card project. This is a work in progress, started in October 2015. The first 4 prototypes were...

KickolasNage @ instructables.com introduces us to Beetle , a tiny arduino board able to minimize your projects to the size of a quarter. The DFRobot Beetle is one the latest innovations in minimalistic Arduino technology. About the size of a quarter, and the capabilities of an...

In this video educ8s.tv is going to show us how to wirelessly update the code of our Arduino project, using the WeMOS D1 ESP8266 based board. This is an impressive, and very useful feature. A few weeks ago, we took a first look at the very promising new board, the WeMos D1. You can...

R. Colin Johnson @ eetimes.com discuss about quantum dots applications and how scientists use them to boost photovoltaic output. LAKE WALES, Fla—Quantum dots are already being used commercially to boost the output and expand the color range of ultra-high-definition televisions,...

AughtNaughtZero @ instructables.com posted his latest project, a LED matrix visualizing data from a weather website such as temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed etc. This project utilizes a 6 x 16 matrix of RGB LEDs to visualize a weather forecast pulled from the Weather...

This board will let you add WiFi functionality to your Raspberry Pi Zero without having to sacrifice the only available high speed USB port. The board is based on ESP8266 Wifi module. WiFi on a Raspberry Pi using the HAT connector and an ESP8266. The goal of this project is to add...

Rui Santos from Random Nerd Tutorials tipped us with his latest tutorial on how to build an Android app using the MIT App Inventor software that allows you to control the ESP8266 GPIOs: ESP8266 controlled with Android app (MIT App Inventor) -...

In this guide Sanket Gupta @ octopart.com explains how to select a resistor from a range of common resistor types. In this blog, we will explain all the different types of resistors, their merits and demerits, and popular applications. We have included some recommendations for...