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Martin Rowe over at Test & Measurement World asks an interesting question: Are you a Scotty or a Geordi? While both were engineers in the Star Trek universe, they approached their …

One of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s developers, Rob Bishop, is heading out on a Hackerspace tour in the US. Looks like he’ll be visiting a couple of spaces on the west coast, east …

Documentation, Documentation. Documentation. It is always critical to document progress is a log book. If using an electronic tool like Evernote or a Blog, it can be difficult to …

Renesas is offering a promotion version of their RL78 microcontroller. This offer is only available to their Sample Component account holders, but the process for signing up for a …

A couple of weeks ago I posted an EAGLE Tutorial on creating Ground Planes. That tutorial has now been updated with the above YouTube video showing the steps. Let me know if …

Note: The IRC Channel (along with all of Freenode) got nuked. While the Arduino Project Team provides their official Arduino forums, sometimes real-time help is just a bit better. …

When Serial data is transmitted to an Arduino, it is sent one byte at a time. Even though you might type “123” in the Serial Monitor, that’s not quite what is sent. Instead the …

Based on a question from Andrew on the initial Multitasking with millis() tutorial, this example shows how to create a Police-Light like strobe effect. The following code uses no …

Creating PCBs in Eagle is a straight-forward process once you understand how EAGLE works. In fact, most users can get up to speed enough to draw a Schematic and then layout a …

Did you know it is possible to toggle the state of a Arduino OUTPUT pin using a single line of code? It’s true! It’s also possible to use digitalRead() on an OUTPUT pin. Assuming …