Permanent Breadboards – Hobby Electronics Game-Changer!
These permanent breadboards are going to be a huge time-saver for me, and make my electronics projects a whole lot less frustrating …
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Review
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is easy to set up and just works. Check it out if you are in the market for a portable, crisp display
Elecrow CrowPanel 5.79″ E-Paper ESP32 Display Review
Looking for a high-quality, energy-efficient display for your Arduino or MicroPython projects? The Elecrow CrowPanel 5.79” E-Paper ESP32 …
Laser Cut Arduino Autonomous Obstacle Avoiding Robot
In this tutorial and video, we are going to make an obstacle-avoiding Arduino robot using a Creality Falcon 2 Pro laser cutter.
How to Build a Custom Mechanical Keyboard
Custom keyboards are where you either build or heavily modify for yourself. We look at what you need, options, and how to build your …
WLED APIs & Automation
WLED APIs allow you to control your RGB strips and matrix from your computer, smart home, or services like IFTTT
WLED: Controlling and Animating RGB Addressable LEDs Over WiFi
WLED Tutorial - Install and Setup a ESP8266 or ESP32 with your WS2812B/WS2811 individually addressable RGB LED strip, animations and …
HTTPS and POST with ESP8266 WiFi
ESP8266 Arduino code that allows you to request web pages over either http or https, and also to POST to websites
Neo6502 ESP8266 Serial and WIFI
Adding ESP8266 MOD WIFI module and using BASIC serial communication commands to get our Neo6502 computer online and reading the web!
Use the MCP23017 GPIO Port Expander to Add 16 IO Pins
MCP23017/MCP23008 port expanders add more GPIO pins using I2C which means you only need two wires to get 8, 16 or even more lines of IO
PiUSB – How to Make a Wifi Memory Stick Using Pi Zero W
Raspberry Pi Zero W as a Wifi-enabled USB Memory Stick! In this tutorial we create a removable drive that is shared over your network.
Neo6502 GPIO Input and Output
Neo6502 GPIO Input and Output for electronics programming in BASIC. How to light up and fade an LED, plus read a button as input.
Arduino SID Player: Play C64 Music on Your Uno
Play C64 music using an Arduino Uno - without a SID chip! This project emulates the MOS 6581/8580 and can load the tunes from SD card.
DIY Z80 Output to LCD: Homebrew Retro Computer Part 3
Our home made Z80 DIY computer finally gets to communicate with the outside world!
Or in this case, a 16x2 LCD screen.
Pico as Z80 RAM & RAM: Homebrew Retro Computer Part 2
Your DIY Z80 computer needs memory to do actual computing so in this project we create an emulated ROM and RAM using a Raspberry Pi Pico
Z80 on a Breadboard: Homebrew Retro Computer Part 1
How to make a homebrew z80 microprocessor computer on a breadboard - the best way to understand how things work at a fundamental level.
Makeblock mBot Ranger Robotics Kit Review
mBot Ranger is a STEM robotics kit from Makeblock, in their large line of excellent educational electronics.
They sent me this kit to …
Quit Zoom Call Macro Key – How to Make a Custom Cherry MX USB Macro Keyboard/Keypad with Arduino
Ever wondered how to create your own custom keyboard or keypad? Do you want a fast way to quit out of Zoom calls? Today we’re …
Easiest. Hackintosh. Ever. – How to Install MacOS Virtual Machine on Your PC Using Sosumi & Ubuntu
Today, we’re going to create the world’s easiest Hackintosh using the virtual MacOS package, Sosumi.
Ultrasonic Rangefinding with the Wio Terminal and Grove Ultrasonic Sensor
Seeed sent me a Wio Terminal to play with, and I have to say I am impressed. Rather than do a straight review, I thought I would show …
Are You Making Soldering More Difficult than Necessary?
Soldering. Love it, hate it, tolerate it, but if you are into electronics, learn to do it. Are you making it more difficult for yourself …
Arduino Stepper with Potentiometer Speed Control
For my 3D printed turntable I obviously need some way to turn the turntable, and preferably for video and scanning, some method to …
Raspberry Pi Security Camera
Have you been wanting a wifi camera? Maybe for some added security, or perhaps to monitor the kids/pets/roommate?
Turn your Raspberry …
Laser Cut Box for the Massive Adafruit Arcade Button
The “Massive Adafruit Arcade Button” is one of my favorites, I just find it comically large. Therefore whenever I get a …