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Many of us have run a Blink program on a microcontroller before. It’s effectively the “Hello, World!” of the embedded space. However, few of us have ever thought about optimizing …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: STM32 Blinks In Under 50 Bytes
Around the globe, some classrooms are using fancy digital handheld devices to let people answer questions. One such example of this hardware is the Smart Response PE. These devices are …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: Educational Tool Becomes 10 Stopwatches
How fast does your heart beat? It’s a tough question to answer, because our heart rate changes all the time depending on what we’re doing and how our body is …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: An Arduino-Based Heart Rate Sensor
Rubber! It starts out as a goopy material harvested from special trees, and is then processed into a resilient, flexible material used for innumerable important purposes. In the vast majority …read more Continue reading Gentle Processing Makes Better Rubber That Cracks Less
There has been a huge proliferation in AI music creation tools of late, and a corresponding uptick in the number of AI artists appearing on streaming services. Well before the …read more Continue reading Rediscovering Microsoft’s Oddball Music Generator From The 1990s
If you want to blink an LED once every second, you could use just about any old timer circuit to create a 1 Hz signal. Or, you could go the …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: Blinking An LED With The Aid Of Radio Time
Walk into any pub and order a pint of Guinness, and you’ll witness a mesmerizing ritual. The bartender pulls the tap, fills the glass two-thirds full, then sets it aside …read more Continue reading How The Widget Revolutionized Canned Beer
You can use a microcontroller to build a clock. After all, a clock is just something that counts the passage of time. The only problem is that microcontrollers can’t track …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: Digital Clock Built With Analog Timer
The Etch-A-Sketch has been a popular toy for decades. It can be fun to draw on, but you have to get things right the first time, because there’s no undo …read more Continue reading Digital Etch-A-Sketch Also Plays Snake
The 2025 One Hertz Challenge asks you to build a project that does something once every second. While that has inspired a lot of clock and timekeeping builds, we’re also …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: A Game Of Life