You can salvage some nice motors out of optical drives but they can be tricky to control. That’s because brushless DC motors require carefully timed signals used in a process called Electronic Speed ...

Hardware hacking often seems like black magic to the uninitiated, which is why 123D Circuits is so cool: it allows you to learn electronics using a virtual Arduino board and breadboard without blowing ...

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The rise of low-cost, hacker-friendly electronics is fueling a new wave of hardware hobbyists. Using programmable boards like the Arduino and dirt-chip computers like the Raspberry Pi, you can build ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Altium LLC, the leading printed circuit board (PCB) software company, is partnering with the IPC Education Foundation (IPCEF) and Arduino to launch the first student ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exlRjDKHGRg?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Adafruit, the DIY electronics website and marketplace, is espousing the ...

In adding an alternative cutter drive motor (‘spindle’) to an existing cnc machine, an electrically isolated pwm to analogue converter is needed. The machine uses a ‘grbl’ controller, which has an ...

Over at DSS Circuits, Wayne Truchsess has posted a great article about a "Honeypot" he built inside an empty PS3 case. The device includes a GPS for tracking its position, an accelerometer for motion ...