If there’s any holiday that is worth adjusting for strange times, it’s gotta be Halloween. Are you inclined to leave a bowl of candy on the porch to avoid the doorbell? If so, this is the perfect year to finally...

We’ve all seen videos of blisteringly fast SCARA arms working on assembly lines, and more than a few of us have fantasied about having that same kind of technology for the home shop. Unfortunately, while the prices for things like...

There was a time when only the most expensive televisions could boast crystal clear pixels on a wall-mountable thin screen. What used to be novelty from “High Definition Flat Screen Televisions“ are now just “TV” available everywhere. So as a...

Phones used to be phones. Then we got cordless phones which were part phone and part radio. Then we got cell phones. But with smartphones, we have a phone that is both a radio and a computer. Tiny battery operated...

Join us on Wednesday, October 21st at noon Pacific for the Exploring Animal Intelligence Hack Chat with Hans Forsberg! From our lofty perch atop the food chain it’s easy to make the assumption that we humans are the last word...

There is a certain warmth that seems to emanate from stereo receivers of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Despite their large footprint and considerable heft, the soft glow of the indicator lights and solid kerthunk of switches provide a sense...

Volos Projects educator [Danko Bertović] had a TTGO ESP32 board looking for a project, so he implemented a surprisingly functional weather station for such a small screen. Presumably that was too boring for him, so he decided to write a...

I'm often asked how to kill a background thread, and the answer to this question makes a lot of people unhappy: threads cannot be killed. In this article I'm going to show you two options we have in Python to...

Diodes Incorporated introduced DMT47M2LDVQ automotive compliant 40V dual MOSFET in a 3.3mm x 3.3mm package for automotive... The post Tiny automotive-compliant, 40V dual MOSFET boasts low RDS(on) resistance appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.

Video Intelligence once considered the exclusive intel of humans has now taken a turn with the... The post Corazon-AI – The Gateway for Video Analytics appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.

The i.MX RT1064 is one of the highest performing Cortex-M7 solution delivering 3020 CoreMarks (when running... The post iMX RT1064 uCOM – Combining the best of microcontrollers and application processors appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.

It has always been a far fetched idea for the hobbyists to get hold of a... The post Vespera – A Smart Telescope Powered By Raspberry Pi appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.

VIM1 is the original Amlogic S905X ARM development board designed by Khadas for hobbyists, makers and... The post Khadas VIM1 Board Features Amlogic S905X Quad Core ARM appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.

Recently, we have been getting some interesting downsizing when it comes to the development boards that... The post PICO, the Smallest Arduino Compatible Dev. Board appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.

We’ve all heard it a thousand times – they don’t make ’em like they used to. Sometimes, that’s for good reason, but there is a certain build quality to electronics of the mid-20th century that is hard to find in hardware today....

People use a VPN — virtual private network — for a lot of reasons. However, for many people it is synonymous with hiding your network traffic, one thing that VPN can do. FreePN is a relatively new open source project...

Remember subliminal advertising? The idea was that a movie theater operator would splice a single frame showing a bucket of hot buttered popcorn into a movie, which moviegoers would see and process on a subconcious level and rush to the...

At first glance, you might think the piece of hardware pictured here is a modern gaming computer. It’s got water cooling, RGB LED lighting, and an ATX power supply, all of which happen to be mounted inside a flashy computer...

Full-size metal detectors are great for narrowing down a region to start digging through. But what if you had a smaller metal detector that could pinpoint the location? Then you could spend far less time digging and way more time...

Robot locomotion is a broad topic, and there are a multitude of choices for the budding designer. Often, nature is an inspiration, and many ‘bots have been built to explore the motion regimes of various insects and animals. Inspired himself...

Power conversion in the form of switching DC-to-DC converters are in virtually every electronic device we use. As a result, having high-performance converters that have wide operating envelopes, are easy to design with and offer high efficiencies in a small...

We’ve all seen recreations of the famous double-slit experiment, which showed that light can behave both as a wave and as a particle. Or rather, it’s likely that what we’ve seen is the results of the double-slit experiment, that barcode-looking...

The Coral Dev Board Mini is a single-board computer that provides fast machine learning (ML) inferencing... The post Coral Dev Board Mini is available for pre-orders appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.

There have been many attempts at electronic numerical display technology over the decades since the first incandescent bulb or neon tube flickered into life at the command of a primordial computer, but the lowest common denominator has remained the humble...

Time for the second installment of my trip to Osaka, including a look at the famous Osaka Castle and some of the various temples and shrines. As I had visited Osaka after my visit to Kyoto, I was already a...

Now this post will be for the long tail, only a few will find this helpful, but for those it will be more than just helpful it will be a dramatic productivity booster. Here we go .. Imagine a scenario...

The internet is full of self-proclaimed challenges, ranging from some absolutely pointless fads to well-intended tasks with an actual purpose. In times of TikTok, the latter is of course becoming rarer, as a quick, effortless jump on the bandwagon is...

Biological machines such as human and animal bodies are quite incredible. Your body seamlessly incorporates materials as different as muscle, bone, and tendons into an integrated whole. Now Texas A&M researchers think they can imitate nature using polymer networks that...