Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino is now open sourced!


https://www.electronics-lab.com/visual-studio-code-extension-arduino-now-open-sourced/

Visual Studio Code is the cross-platform, open sourced advanced code editor by Microsoft. Recently, after being interested in IoT and hardware, Microsoft is now searching for tools to make building IoT devices easier. It added an Arduino extension to its Visual Studio Code to enable a better eco-system for IoT developers using Arduino. By making some […]

Control Your IR Devices With Your Smartphone Bluetooth


https://www.electronics-lab.com/control-ir-devices-smartphone-bluetooth/

Managing some of house devices with its IR remotes may be annoying if you are out of its line of sight. You will have to interrupt the work you are doing, move to another room, turn down the volume of your Hi-Fi for example, then go back and resume your work. Assume you can use […]

Temperature Controlled Stair lights With Raspberry Pi


https://www.electronics-lab.com/temperature-controlled-stair-lights-with-raspberry-pi/

Ever wished to know the temperature on your way to breakfast after waking up in the morning? Now you can find it out in a fascinating way as Lorraine Underwood at The MagPi magazine designed a temperature controlled colorful stair lights system with raspberry pi. In this tutorial, we’re going to discuss that project. Required Parts Strip of […]

16X2 LCD Shield with LMD18201 Motor Driver


https://www.electronics-lab.com/16x2-lcd-shield-lmd18201-motor-driver/

  LCD is very important part of many DIY and industrial projects. The 16X2 LCD shield has been designed to develop LCD related projects using 28-40 Pin Pic development board or DSpic development board, along with LCD this shield includes LMD18201 DC Motor driver , 2 Trimmer potentiometer and 4 tact switches with jumpers. Jumpers […]

16X2 LCD Shield with LMD18201 Motor Driver


https://www.electronics-lab.com/project/16x2-lcd-shield-lmd18201-motor-driver/

LCD is very important part of many DIY and industrial projects. The 16X2 LCD shield has been designed to develop LCD related projects using 28-40 Pin Pic development board or DSpic development board, along with LCD this shield includes LMD18201 DC Motor driver , 2 Trimmer potentiometer and 4 tact switches with jumpers. Jumpers can […]

New Arduino Book Teaches Electronics Skills One Project at a Time


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San Francisco, CA (July 7, 2017)—School’s out for summer, but learning doesn’t have to stop at the classroom door. For parents and educators looking to keep their students exploring, tinkering, and creating, No Starch Press offers the latest addition to its lineup of STEM books. The Arduino Inventor’s Guide (No Starch Press, $29.95, 336 pp., […]

Inside Intel’s first product: the 3101 RAM chip held just 64 bits


https://www.electronics-lab.com/inside-intels-first-product-3101-ram-chip-held-just-64-bits/

Ken Shirriff takes a look inside the 3110 RAM chip from Intel. He writes: Intel’s first product was not a processor, but a memory chip: the 31011 RAM chip, released in April 1969. This chip held just 64 bits of data (equivalent to 8 letters or 16 digits) and had the steep price tag of […]

Bulgarian National Innovator Creative Spaces


https://www.electronics-lab.com/bulgarian-national-innovator-creative-spaces/

Few days ago, a group of 10 young and experienced people launched a Kickstarter campaign for their new socially significant project “Innovator Creative Spaces“. It is a national network of co-working spaces that cover the whole country of Bulgaria. The goal of this project is to build creative centers that provide hi-tech workshops for software development […]

96-Layer Memory Chips By Toshiba


https://www.electronics-lab.com/96-layer-memory-chips-by-toshiba/

The need for larger memory storage for smartphones will never stop, especially with the continuous development of larger and stronger applications. This need is always pushing semiconductor manufacturers to keep trying to fit as much bits as possible in  smaller volumes and with lower costs. To achieve this, memory chips are now growing in three […]

RandA, Combining Raspberry Pi & Arduino


https://www.electronics-lab.com/randa-combining-raspberry-pi-arduino/

Two years ago, open electronics had produced “RandA“, an Atmega328-based board for Raspberry Pi to deliver the advantages of both, Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Earlier this month, an updated version of RandA has been released to be compatible with Raspberry Pi 3. RandA is a development board that leverages the hardware equipment and the computing power […]