The purchase of a Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Reading Co. class T1 4-8-4 left Chris Russo wanting more — the ability to access the Digital Command Control functions built into the new model.

You might think that CD players and DVD players have had their run, but as it turns out, they are absolute goldmines for DIY projects. Pop one open and you'll find stepper motors, laser assemblies, ...

Today’s IR-based remote controls have little resemblance to their predecessors; it took the convergence of unrelated advances to get us here. We take the ubiquitous infrared-based (IR) remote control ...

As mentioned in the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 article, third-party RP2350 boards are already available, and one of them is the MOTION 2350 Pro board from Cytron designed for robotics and motor control. The ...

The following project is an update of Gary D. Patterson’s “Simplified CTC signals” in the July 1988 issue of MR. Bringing the project up to date was a large endeavour. The block control project now ...

If you would like to quickly learn the differences between all the different Arduino development boards, you will be pleased to know that Arduino expert Tommy Bianco has created a fantastic video ...

As shown in the block diagram above, the Coin acceptor module acts as the input device which gives the signal to Arduino when it detects a valid Coin inserted within it. Arduino receives the signal ...

The multitasking has led the computers to a revolution where one or more programs can run simultaneously which increases efficiency, flexibility, adaptability and productivity. In embedded systems, ...

We build this weather monitoring system using Arduino that provides information such as temperature and humidity on a color touch-screen display. It can also control the temperature through the ...

(For earlier commit history, see https://github.com/awgrover/misc_arduino_tools/commits/master/every) (For a circuitpython version, see https://github.com/awgrover ...

Some may ask why you’d want to program a Cortex-M microcontroller like the STM32 series using nothing but the ARM toolchain and the ST Microelectronics-provided datasheet and reference manual. If your ...