Tired of paying The Man for your power? Before you go off-grid, this is the video you want to see. We'll give you the background on solar cell function and performance, and talk about some of the other parts you'll need to get the job done.
Care to take a peek under the hood of reality? Hall effect and Lorentz force are big news in the land of the tiny.
We tend to over-simplify the act of dropping an LED into a circuit. But do you know what all of those specs in the data sheet mean?
Heard about CAN bus but don’t know what all the hype is about? This video’s for you!
Looking for a beefy, wired data bus where RF won’t cut it? We dig into RS-485 and explore how it works and why it just might be the one you need!
Without phase-locked loops, we’d all still be living in caves, just getting by with stone knives and bearskins.
To honor our 15th anniversary, Pete digs into the electrical properties of crystals.
I design and build a headphone amplifier, and go on a journey of self-discovery (and learn some hard lessons).
Pete digs into WiFi for a broad, hardware-ish level explanation of how it all works.
There's so much arguing over code on the internet. Let's try to get to the bottom of the debate.
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Glassdoor is not kind to you guys.
BIN is a type of format extension which is used to store all of the information from CD/DVD it originated from. Although, it is a very older…
You're correct about Arduino being stuck with it and this is an excellent solution in most cases! The situation where a hardware solution…
No hard feelings, but this seems like a lot of effort to work around a single line of code. As the article shows, Arduino's library contains…
I think what you would want would be closer to…
since it's hard to find the exact specs of inductor here, can i use a toroid inductor?…
One more thought on security: On TV I keep seeing the police saying to NOT leave your garage door open -- that there are criminal types that…
Great demo of cryptography, Pete, but IMHO, for most folks it's vast overkill. The typical home robery is going to be done by someone,…
Ah ok, the inductor is the issue. When you pass current through a wire, it generates a magnetic field, the more current you can pass through…
thank you!