Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Al Williams were in a retro mood this week. There was a new ‘486 computer, a new mechanical TV, and a USB stick with a magnetic personality. Can you ...

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a microcontroller development board powered by the custom RP2040 chip. With its dual-core ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, extensive GPIO pins, and built-in programmable I/O (PIO), ...

This is the SparkFun Arduino library for the Texas Instruments TMAG5273 low-power linear 3D Hall-effect sensor with I 2 C interface. This SparkFun Arduino Library for the Texas Instruments TMAG5273 ...

Optiboot (an older version) is installed by default on the Arduino Uno and (as of 2018) official Arduino Nano boards. It can be installed on all older mega8, 168 or 328 based Arduinos. As of 2019, ...

Tony Goacher] has worked with a lot of cheap brushless DC motor controllers built in China. They can be very cost-effective, ...

The ESP32 keeps finding new jobs in my house.

It's amazing what you can do with an ESP32 (or two).

Stepper motors use a cogged wheel and electromagnets to rotate the wheel one ‘step’ at a time. Each HIGH pulse sent to the A4988 stepper driver energises the coil, attracting the teeth closest to the ...

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