| Soldering SMDs manually isn’t the easiest task, but it is far from impossible. Remember when you started soldering through-hole IC’ years ba...
| Soldering SMDs manually isn’t the easiest task, but it is far from impossible. Remember when you started soldering through-hole IC’ years ba...
| A stable magnet made of a single atom – could this be a path to miniature magnetic storage devices? Maybe one day, thanks to the success of...
| What’s the difference between Marco Polo and Arduino? None, they both started off small in Italy and prospered in China. Seriously though,...
| Various circular animations and blinking multi-colour light effects are possible with this simple 32 LED circle. It runs from two CR2032 bat...
| From an enthusiastic reader in Switzerland we received an original letter in the shape of a scrolling LED marquee. This is what it says (in...
| An important step towards using a single molecule as a converter between electronic and plasmonic circuits has been verified! Using both el...
| Reading a recent article by my colleague Clemens Valens on the tribulations of Ohm’s law got me thinking. I try to imagine what goes throug...
| This very easy to use and inexpensive digital function generator produces 0-200,000 Hz signals of many different waveforms: sine, square, tr...
| If it did not come out of the celebrated MIT, we maybe would not have mentioned this little innocuous looking hexapod robot. In fact it’s a...
| In good experimental fashion, this project is a valuable study into what can be achieved with ‘commodity embedded technology’ like a Raspber...