The Arduino platform offers a variety of affordable toys used by DIY enthusiasts for simple electronics projects. It is known for being easy to learn and is built on a variant of the C++ programming ...

Older industrial equipment is often a great option if you’re on a budget, and you might even be able to add some premium features yourself. [Brett] from [Theoretically Practical] has done with his old ...

Our old math teacher famously said, “You have to take what you know and use it find what you don’t know.” The same holds true for a lot of microcontroller designs including [rgco’s] clever metal ...

YouTube channel How To Mechatronics has created a great tutorial with full instructions on how to create your very own Arduino powered 3D wire bending machine. Created using 3D printer parts, a ...

A while ago I received a couple of I/O port expander modules that use the I 2 C protocol. Using that Chinese module, you can use only the SDA and SCL pins of your Arduino, or any microcontroller ...

All I can say is that I am really, really tempted to build one of these little beauties and then spend a happy few weeks bending furiously It’s funny how sometimes you don’t know that you want ...

*I wish I had one of these gizmo, although (a) the feeder system doesn't actually work and (b) I could probably bend wire by hand 50 times faster and cheaper. But not with such software-driven ...