If you have an eye for obscure Microsoft products, you may be aware of the Microsoft PixelSense, a table-sized horizontal touchscreen designed as a collaborative workspace. It’s a multi-user computer with no traditional keyboard or mouse, instead multiple users work...

Osram Opto Semiconductors presents the SFH 5701 A01, a new ambient light sensor (ALS) with integrated... The post Osram’s SFH 5701 Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) appeared first on Electronics-Lab.

The MCP6V51 operational amplifier provides input offset voltage correction for very low offset and offset drift.... The post MCP6V51 45 V Zero-Drift Op-Amp appeared first on Electronics-Lab.

Cypress Semiconductor PSoC® 6 BLE Prototyping Board (CY8CPROTO-063-BLE) is a low-cost hardware platform enabling design and... The post Cypress Semiconductor PSoC® 6 BLE Prototyping Board appeared first on Electronics-Lab.

Here’s a tip for all you retrocomputing enthusiasts or even anyone with an old computer in the garage. Go remove the battery. Yes, that old mid-90s desktop has a battery inside for the real-time clock, and it’s a ticking time...

Texas Instruments TPSM846C24 35A Power Modules offer a fixed frequency and incorporate the controller, power MOSFETs,... The post Texas Instruments TPSM846C24 High-Density Step-Down Power Module appeared first on Electronics-Lab.

Small microcontrollers and tiny systems-on-chips are getting more and more popular these days as the price comes down and the ease of programming goes up. A Raspberry Pi is relatively inexpensive and can do pretty much everything you need, but...

Sometimes you encounter projects that defy description, as is the case with this one. So perhaps it’s best to start with what this project is NOT. It is not a sphere. It is not a perpetual energy device. It has...

From cars to refrigerators, it seems as if every new piece of tech is connected to the Internet. For better or for worse, we’re deep into the “Internet of Things”. But what about your camera? No, not the camera in...

The field of radio control has benefited much from the onward march of technology. Where a basic 2-channel setup would once have cost hundreds of dollars, it’s now possible to get a high-end 2.4GHz 9-channel rig for well under $100,...

There’s something compelling about high-altitude ballooning. For not very much money, you can release a helium-filled bag and let it carry a small payload aloft, and with any luck graze the edge of space. But once you retrieve your payload package...

Somewhere in the recesses of my memory there lives a small photograph, from one of the many magazines that fed my young interests in science and electronics – it was probably Popular Science. In my mind I see a man...

Circuits are beautiful in their own way, and a circuit sculpture takes that abstract beauty and makes it into a purposeful art form. Can you use the wires of the circuits themselves as the structure of a sculpture, and tell...

[Nikola Tesla] believed he could wirelessly supply power to the world, but his calculations were off. We can, in fact, supply power wirelessly and we are getting better but far from the dreams of the historical inventor. The mainstream version...

I try to keep up with web development trends but it’s hard to keep pace since it’s such a fast evolving field. Barely a week goes by without the release of a new JS framework, elaborate build tool or testing...

Hitting the electronic surplus shop is probably old hat to most of our readership. Somewhere, everyone’s got that little festering pile of hardware they’re definitely going to use some day. An old fax is one thing, but how would your partner...

The HMC8012 provides a diverse choice of easily accessible measurement and mathematical functions. Multimeter is able... The post Rohde & Schwarz HMC8012 Digital Multimeter with 5-3/4 Digit Display (480,000 Counts) appeared first on Electronics-Lab.

Toshiba Memory Europe announced the introduction of the fourth generation of its single package ball grid... The post Toshiba Memory Europe Unveils 1TB Single Package PCIe Gen3 x4L SSDs appeared first on Electronics-Lab.

For anyone who’s been fiddling around with computers since the days before VGA, “Hunt the Wumpus” probably brings back fond memories. Developed in 1973, this text game has you move around a system of caves searching for the foul-smelling Wumpus,...

This reference design is a compact, high efficiency, 24-V DC, 500-W reference design for industrial AC/DC... The post 94.5% Efficiency, 24V @ 21A – 500W industrial AC-DC reference design appeared first on Electronics-Lab.

SenseTemp by Capable Robot Components is an accurate and flexible four-channel temperature sensor for instrumenting electronics... The post SenseTemp – An accurate and flexible four-channel temperature sensor appeared first on Electronics-Lab.

With LoStik you can easily connect to LoRa networks in Open source way! Get connected and... The post LoStik – Open source USB LoRa® device appeared first on Electronics-Lab.

Thank you to Florent for submitting his website which contains a live log of his meteor scatter observations. Meteor scatter occurs when radio signals reflect off the ionized trail left behind by meteors when they enter the atmosphere. This trail is...

Over on the SWLing post, Thomas has shared an interesting video showing aircraft scatter reception in action. Alps DX [FR] shows on his YouTube channel a broadcast FM signal coming in clearly as a plane passes by, then fading away...

GNU Radio is a very powerful open source platform for implementing various digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms. It is very commonly used with software defined radios like the RTL-SDR, as well as much higher end units. The community that uses...

If you have ever used a scalpel to cut something tougher than an eraser, you can appreciate a hot knife or better yet, an ultrasonic cutter. Saws work too, but they have their own issues. [This Old Tony] uses a...

The closest some of us at Hackaday get to a green thumb comes when we are painting, so for us and other folks not gifted in the gardening department Bionic Cactus might help. It’s a neatly designed water and light...