Bald Engineer

Electronics Weekly has invited Dale Cigoy of Keithley Instruments to talk about how capacitors work. Since capacitors are part of almost any Electronic circuit or project, it is a …

Joseph Heremans and Roberto Meyrs at the Ohio State University have been studying materials that could be used to turn heat from ICs into electricity. The research is focused on …

This is a quick video demonstrating the LED Matrix Shield for the Arduino. This Matrix is an 8x6 “Normal” matrix. (It is not Chairleplexed.) Blue LEDs were used to give it a …

westfw of the Arduino Forums has put together a nice Flickr Annotation of the New Arduino UNO. A couple of changes have been made from the previous Duemilanove. Interestingly they …

The PCB for my very first Arduino shield arrived today from BatchPCB. At first glance everything looks good. The silkscreen with my name and web address didn’t come out so well but …

Random numbers are a relative concept. In general, random numbers used in digital electronics are called Psuedo-Random sequences. There is a defined algorithm that is used to …

One of the major feature updates for the iPhone 4 included a gyroscope. There are two applications that a gyroscope can be used for: keeping an object in balance and providing …

The folks over at Seedstudio have created a first for Arduino: a FPC version! In the past, it was very common for this material to be used as interconnects between circuit boards …

Electronic communications systems are made up of three basic components: a transmitter, a receiver, and a transmission medium. Use a video game system with a wired controller as an …

In July, I left on a trip that took my friend and I around the world. While traveling, I kept a blog of the trip at trip.cmiyc.com.We visited New Zealand and Australia during …