What do you do when your trusty, 45 year old calculator finally needs to be retired? If you’re a programmer with a knack for making things — like Simon Boak — you custom build a replacement. This is ...

The YouTube channel DIY Builder has published and created a DIY Arduino laser engraver which is powered by an Arduino Nano development board and is fitted with a 200-250mW 650nm Laser Module. Check ...

The project will function as a wireless programming and debugging link to access hard to reach Arduino board inside a machine by using the XBee protocol. An FTDI cable is used to attach one XBee that ...

An Arduino is a popular open-source single-board microcontroller. Learn how to program one and let the possibilities take shape. By The Big Book Of Hacks Published Jan 10, 2013 3:00 AM EST Get the ...

Robot lawnmowers can be extremely pricey, even at the lower end of the market, setting you back quite a few hundred dollars. If you would prefer to make your own and learn a little more about Arduino ...

[Kirill] wrote in to share his Arduino-based PIC programmer. It is capable of writing to the 18F family of chips, including 18F2XXX and 18F4XXX. We think that’s pretty exciting because this line of ...

Hacking around with hardware and cooking up homemade gadgets... Arduino? That sounds exotic. Is it a holiday resort on the Italian Riviera? Well, there is an Italian connection - the founders of ...

The reprogramming of the Lily main board was easily allowed by the USB to UART board that does not require the need for soldering. The Lily Pad main board is using the FT232RL integrated circuit from ...

This installment of Embed with Elliot begins with a crazy rant. If you want to read the next couple of paragraphs out loud to yourself with something like an American-accented Dave-Jones-of-EEVBlog ...