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3 May

Hardware Hump Day: One-Day Lightsaber Build

Celebrate the 4th, Jedi style, with a "spectacular" lightsaber build!

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2 May

IoTuesday: April Project Roundup

Five of my favorite slick DIY projects that somehow relate to IoT

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1 May

Getting Started with the micro:bit — Remote Sensor Alarm

Someone has been stealing my sandwiches. We'll use the two-way radio communication on the micro:bit to catch the thief.

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28 Apr

Friday Product Post: A Breath of Fresh Air

Today we bring you the very new CCS811 Air Quality Breakout, as well as our very own OpenPIR sensor!

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27 Apr

Introduction to Operational Amplifiers - Making a Case for Analog Electronics

We've got a new op amp tutorial using LTSpice, along with a neat little portable project: a mini guitar amp.

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26 Apr

Hardware Hump Day: Air Quality Measurements with the CCS811

Wherein we seek to answer the age old question: What the heck is a VOC?

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25 Apr

Backlit LED Mountain Scene

Build an indoor visual weather display with LEDs and the Particle Photon!

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24 Apr

Getting started with the micro:bit — Making a temperature gauge

For Part 3 of the "Getting started with micro:bit" series, we read temperature from a built-in sensor and rotate a servo.

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21 Apr

Friday Product Post: Due Digilence

Today we are happy to bring you a handy BNC adapter board for the Digilent Analog Discovery 2 and an updated version of the popular 2xAAA battery holder.

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20 Apr

Enginursday: I2Considerations

In this Enginursday, we'll explore some of the problems that can creep up when connecting I2C devices

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