The hardware setup shown below includes the Arduino Uno R4, a DHT11 sensor, and the built-in Wi-Fi for email alerts. The DHT11 is connected with VCC to 5V, GND to ground, and the data pin to Digital ...

Vishnu Kannan had just begun learning math as an early elementary school student in Howard County when his older brother came to him with a math problem. If he could solve it, he’d earn a dozen ...

Getting started with Raspberry Pi can be a bit daunting for a newcomer, but these tips will have you on your way to programming fun projects in no time.

Let’s start with the simple case: performing an action only when the switch goes active. We’ll assume the switch starts in ...

Type a sentence into the input bar at the top of the Serial Monitor and hit Enter to send it to the Wit.ai API. The console will log " Requesting TTS " followed by " Buffer ready, starting playback ," ...

A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

The Dabao open-source hardware board features a Boachip-1x RISC-V MCU, whose RTL Verilog files are also open, and is IRIS ...

In recent years, integrated platforms equipped with microcontrollers (with Arduino probably being the best-known brand) have been gaining popularity.

This small inductance-meter is what every beginner in electronics should have to start in electronics. Commercial multimeters all include the ohm-meter function, more rarely that of capacitance meter, ...

Building your perfect programming environment is easier than you think. Here's how to do it in minutes!