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It can be surprisingly hard to find decent analogies when you’re teaching electronics basics. The water flow analogy, for instance, is decent for explaining Ohm’s law, but it breaks down …read more Continue reading Electronics Explained with Mechanical Devices
In USB-C Power Delivery (PD) standard, the PPS (Programmable Power Supply) mode is an optional mode that lets you request a non-standard voltage from a charger, with the ability to …read more Continue reading Use USB-C Chargers To Top Up Li-Ion Packs With This Hack
[RichardG] has noticed a weird discrepancy – his Ryzen mainboard ought to have had fourteen USB3 ports, but somehow, only exposed thirteen of them. Unlike other mainboards in this lineup, …read more Continue reading Dirty USB-C Tricks: One Port For The Price Of Two
Say, you’re starting your electronics journey with a few projects in mind. You have an ESP8266 board like the Wemos D1, a LiIon battery, you want to build a small …read more Continue reading Battery-Powered ESP8266 Sensor? Never Been Simpler
Ever want to play with an FPGA, but don’t have the hardware? Now, if you have one of those ever-abundant Pi Picos, you can start playing with Verilog without getting …read more Continue reading Want To Play With FPGAs? Use Your Pico!
Electron is software for running web-written apps in the same way as native ones, and has gotten plenty of bad press for its RAM appetite around these parts. But while …read more Continue reading Turn a Webpage into a Desktop App With Gluon
You don’t always need much to build an FPV rig – especially if you’re willing to take advantage of the power of modern smartphones. [joe57005] is showing off his VR …read more Continue reading 2022 FPV Contest: ESP32-Powered FPV Car Uses Javascript For VR Magic
If you were ever looking for a small relaxing evening project that you could then use day-to-day, you gotta consider the Pico Hat Pad kit by [Natalie the Nerd]. It fits …read more Continue reading A Fun Low-Cost Start For Your Macropad Hobby
[PWalsh] was using his lasercutter to cut acrylic, expecting the cuts to have a pleasantly smooth edge. Alas, the edges turned out to be wobbly and sandpaper-like, not smooth in …read more Continue reading Debugging Laser Cut Wobble, The Scientific Way
Folks from [Adafruit] are showing off a neat hack – USB host on RP2040, using the now-famous PIO peripheral. [Adafruit] builds a lot of RP2040 boards, and naturally, you gotta …read more Continue reading USB Host On RP2040 – With PIO