June 28, 2022 Community members have four ways to expand their sensors knowledge and win great prizes Chicago – June 28, 2022: element14, an Avnet community, is continuing its “Summer of Sensors” with a series of four design challenges that encourage participants to advance their skillsets and showcase what…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Arduino Team — June 23rd, 2022 Modern humans have forgone their tails in favor of walking upright, and this fact left maker Pengfei Zhang wondering what it would be like to have such an appendage. From this idea, she along with Sarvenaz Sardari and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Arduino Team — June 22nd, 2022 When a patient is receiving intravenous (IV) fluids, it is vital that air is not introduced into the line, as its presence can create issues such as excessive pressure or even embolisms that can be life-threatening. Normally, the…
Skip to content Reading Time: 2 minutes Arduino Team — June 21st, 2022 Pen plotting projects are everywhere nowadays, with the vast majority using a couple of stepper motors for moving the writing utensil and a servo to raise or lower it. But they are quite slow due…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAnyone now wanting to get their hands on a Vectrex will find themselves hugely challenged, because this unique games system is extremely rare. With that in mind, Aussie retro gamer Brendan Meharry decided to fashion his own version of this classic console, investing some six…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Arduino Team — June 11th, 2022 When Katie Dumont of element14 Presents received her Arduino UNO Mini Limited Edition, she was concerned that it would end up like most of her other pieces of hardware — either stored somewhere safely in its box or…
What am I talking about? Well, I was just compiling the blogs pages for the next issue of Electronics Weekly magazine and I selected, for Engineer In Wonderland, Alice’s blog about an easy way to manually set a 16-bit number in an Arduino (you can see Part 1…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I’ve always been into making things as far back as I remember,” Kevin tells us. “From making things with cereal boxes (the best source of robust and available cardboard) to creating robots and futuristic worlds in Lego, at age eight! There was probably a gap…
Last week, we took part in the RT-Thread conference teaching engineers the trouble with documentation and poorly written APIs. Why is well-documented code important, how can poorly written APIs present challenges, and what can engineers do to help others? Does the engineering community have a problem with poor…
Skip to content Reading Time: 2 minutes Arduino Team — June 8th, 2022 For the last 50 years, Ovidiu’s Romanian village has relied on a small water source located at a spring, but due to increased droughts, they have since been dependent on an additional well. So far, the…
Skip to content Reading Time: 2 minutes Arduino Team — June 8th, 2022 When it comes to driving a car, one must always be on alert for possible obstacles and other drivers in the next lane over for changing lanes. But because older vehicles that lack built-in blind…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Arduino Team — June 6th, 2022 Back in 1980, the video game Battlezone was released, and it marked a major advancement in the world of computer graphics since it was the first game with a 3D first-person perspective. In it, the player must pilot…
Reading Time: 4 minutes This new release of Arduino CLI delivers more than the usual bug fixes and performance enhancements. Today we’re delighted to bring you Build Profiles. These have been long in the works and we kept it a bit hush-hush despite releasing a public RFC a…
The developer and mastermind behind the Needle Nose Pliers blog is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to drive a custom audio spectrum analyzer. This project uses the Pico to process audio input and output a visualization of the sound it detects to a small OLED screen in real-time.…
