Collaborate Disseminate
Until a few years ago, developing for FPGAs required the use of proprietary locked-down tools, but in the last few years, the closed-source dam has burst, and open-source FPGA tools …read more Continue reading Using Docker to Sail Through Open-Source Xilinx FPGA Development
Sometimes bad software is all that is holding good hardware back. [Michael Melchior] wanted to scavenge some motors and propellers for another project, so he bought an inexpensive quadcopter intending …read more Continue reading Taking Reverse Engineering to the Skies: Cheap Drone Gets PX4 Autopilot
Although protocols like I2C and SPI are great for communicating between embedded devices and their peripherals, it can be a pain to interface these low-level digital interfaces to a PC. …read more Continue reading Bridging the PC and Embedded Worlds with Pico and Python
“You could’ve done that with a 555 timer.” But what if all you have on hand is an ESP8266? [TechColab] needed to control a solenoid valve with a short pulse …read more Continue reading WiFive55: More Than a Smart 555 Replacement
[River] is a big fan of home automation. After moving into a new house, he wanted to assimilate two wirelessly controlled fan lights into his home automation system. The problem …read more Continue reading Fan-tastic Misuse of Raspberry Pi GPIO
[Emil Smith] is an electronic music producer in the Greater London area. He spent a lot of time commuting in and out of central London, so he decided to put …read more Continue reading Music Production Studio in a Box
Over the last decade or so, e-ink price tags have become more and more ubiquitous, and they’ve now reached the point where surplus devices can be found inexpensively on various …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive into E-Ink Tag Hacking
In the world of speakers, mass is the enemy of high frequency response. In order to get the crispest highs, some audiophiles swear by speakers in which the moving element …read more Continue reading A Hi-Fi Speaker from some Foil and Magnets
A basic digital multimeter (DMM) is usually the first measurement tool the aspiring electronics tinkerer buys. Even a bargain-bin DMM will happily measure voltage, current, and resistance; check continuity; and …read more Continue reading Build-It-Yourself LC Meter
Hardware fault injection uses electrical manipulation of a digital circuit to intentionally introduce errors, which can be used to cause processors to behave in unpredictable ways. This unintentional behavior can …read more Continue reading Injecting Bugs with an Electric Flyswatter