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How To: Home Automation with Raspberry Pi and OpenHab

Using the open source software OpenHAB, we'll be building a Raspberry Pi touchscreen command center that can interface with over 150 different "smart home"...

A New Family Of Controllers For Embedded Designers

Microchip introduces feature-rich and flexible family of I/O controllers customised for industrial and embedded computing designers. New SCH322X product family combines Input/Output functionality with hardware...

Tutorial: Electrical Transformer

The basics of how transformers work, where to shop for step down mains transformers, and how to wire one up to mains voltages. European...

Mozilla & IoT: Web of Things

Mozilla has confirmed that it will begin focusing on the Internet of Things, while also mentioning plans to shut down Firefox OS. Quoting Ari...

What’s New in Audio and Video Components

What if you could hear everything said in a far-off room that is also sealed behind sound-proof glass by merely recording a video of...

Turning the Hanky Into a Smartphone

This is not a ‘frog turned into a prince’ story, but a very long quest by technologists. Technologists and, yes, advertisers, started dreaming about printed...

DIY: How To Make a Variable Lab Bench Power Supply

In this video you will learn how to make a variable lab bench power supply. Its a great DIY project for beginners as well...

Demo: Piezoelectric motor

Quick demonstration of a piezoelectric motor. Courtesy: Applied Science  

How To: Water To Fuel Converter (Oxy-Hydrogen generator)

For this project let's build a water fuel converter/generator that uses electricity to convert water into an extremely powerful fuel! Here's how to build...

How To: Homemade Levitation Machine using Arduino

Can’t wait for the future to bring you levitating devices? Learn how to make your own using stuff you can find around your house…assuming...