We'll be at Bay Area Maker Faire and we want to have a beer with you on Saturday night.

Two years ago we headed off to the Bay Area Maker Faire and thought we'd invite friends and acquaintances to ...

Here's a great real-world use case for the Pi—a small job for a small computer. [viking--] works in a public library. Like many public libraries, this one has catalog-only terminals that are separat...

This is the second in a two-part series looking at safety when experimenting with mains-voltage electronic equipment, including the voltages you might find derived from a mains supply but not exten…

A few years ago, Philip Peter started a little pet project. He wanted to build his own processor. This really isn't out of the ordinary - every few months you'll find someone with a new project to bui...

If you've had a child in the last few decades, you've had a choice to make: if you want to know the sex of the baby ahead of time. With ultrasound you can find out or--popular these days--you can have...

The Raspberry Pi was made to be inexpensive with an eye toward putting them into schools. But what about programs targeted at teaching embedded programming? There are plenty of fiscally-starved scho...

There's a car race going on right now, but it's not on any sort of race track. There's a number of companies vying to get their prototype on the road first. [Anurag] has already completed the task, ho...

The latest version (1.3) of everyone's favorite $5 computer now sports a frequently requested feature: a camera connector. The Pi Zero will now use the same economical camera modules available for t...

Many productive hackers bleed a dark ochre. The prevailing theory among a certain group of commenters is that they're full of it, but it's actually a healthy sign of a low blood content in the health...

We’ve probably all taken a look at the rash of cheap Intel-Atom-based tablet computers and wondered whether therein lies an inexpensive route to a portable PC. Such limited hardware laden dow…

[MakinStuff] wrote in to let us know about a project he did for new and improved interfacing to the ubiquitous cheap Chinese digital calipers. Interfacing to this common caliper model is well-trod …

If your shop is anything like mine, you’ve got a large selection of colorful cans claiming to contain the best and absolutely only lubricant you’ll ever need. I’ve been sucked in …

3D printing is supposed to be about rapid prototyping. Design, print, use, re-design, print, test -- iterate until happy. But when you're laying down filament at 60 mm/s, it can seem anything but rapi...

Last time on Minimal MQTT, we used a Raspberry Pi to set up an MQTT broker — the central hub of a home data network. Now it’s time to add some sensor and display nodes and get this thin…

[Aldric Négrier] wrote in to let us know that his DriveMyPhone project has been open sourced. The project is a part telepresence, part remote-controlled vehicle, part robotic rover concept on which…

[Melka] wanted a track bike, but never quite got around to buying a nice one. Then he found an inexpensive abandoned project bike for 10 Euro. He had to do a lot of work to make it serviceable and he ...

For many years, the humble serial port was one of the best ways to communicate with an embedded system. Then USB ports became more popular and serial ports started to vanish. These days, even if yo…

Watch enough How It's Made, and you'll soon become very enthusiastic about computer vision and compressed air. In factories all around the world, production lines automatically sort the wheat from th...

What would it be like to ride a six foot rocket to nearly 400,000 feet at Mach 5.5? Thanks to UP Areospace and some GoPro cameras, you can find out.

The rocket was a test for the Maraia Capsule pro...

[professor churlz] wrote in to let us know his results with modifying radio control ESCs (Electronic Speed Controllers) for use in a large (250lb range) BattleBot's drivetrain. It's a very long and ...