Collaborate Disseminate
[Tony Goacher] has worked with a lot of cheap brushless DC motor controllers built in China. They can be very cost-effective, but sometimes limited in performance or capability, particularly when …read more Continue reading Hack Improves Cheap Speed Controllers
Swift is a relatively modern program language, appearing in 2014 as a replacement for Objective-C. Since then, it’s become a popular solution for programming apps across Apple platforms. That led …read more Continue reading Bringing Swift To The Apple II
If you ever cracked open one of those Magic 8-Ball toys, you found little more than a polyhedron floating in some dark-colored fluid. It was a quasi-random way of asking …read more Continue reading A Quantum Magic 8-Ball
[Dominic Buchstaller] wanted a neat, tidy entryway keypad that actually looked good. Prime goals were something slim, wireless, and with no visible screws. Dependency on the cloud was also a …read more Continue reading A Custom Zigbee Touch Keypad
These days, a lot of embedded projects feature some sort of screen, and a screen often creates a desire for a nice user interface. [Geoffrey Wells] has created a tool …read more Continue reading A GUI Solution For ESP32 Web Development
The 1981 Casio VL-1 was a fine cheap keyboard. It had a robust build, though an admittedly limited sound palette. [Max Vega] had one of these charming instruments, and decided …read more Continue reading Cheap 80s Keyboard Gets Modern Brain Upgrade
There are lots of graphics libraries available for the ESP32, and lots of ways to program one to boot. Even still, most of us wouldn’t immediately think to CSS when …read more Continue reading CSS On The ESP32
Typically, when you’re sitting on a plane on the tarmac, you switch your phone to flight mode while you’re sitting through yet another “quirky” (boring) safety video. You’ll watch some …read more Continue reading Flying Cell Towers Are A Thing
Audio CDs were the ubiquitous audio format of the 1990s. Lesser known were the extensions to the format that packaged all kinds of interesting additional data into a musical release. …read more Continue reading New Record Resurrects Long-Dead CD Graphics Format
iButtons are microchips housed in small, round, metal containers, and are similar to coin cell batteries in appearance. Among other things, they’re used for logging data in industrial contexts, particularly …read more Continue reading A More Convenient iButton Reader