These are the projects I recommend building instead of just buying something off the shelf.

You've got no excuse not to try them.

Abstract: The 89S52 microcontroller (MCU) is very popular among the students, teachers, amateurs, engineers, scientists, and hobbyists for building electronics projects and consumer products.

The Intel MCS-51 (commonly termed 8051) is a single chip microcontroller (MCU) series developed by Intel in 1980 for use in embedded systems. 8051 are first-generation microcontrollers that sparked ...

Alex Taradov has designed a low-cost, open-source hardware USB sniffer compatible with the popular Wireshark packet capture utility, and also controllable from the command line, capturing data in the ...

If you’re big into retrocomputing, you probably spend a lot of time chasing parts and machines on online classifieds or through local swap meets. But what if there was a different way to build a ...

Considering the quality of life, manpower, and expenditure, an IoT-based health monitoring system has been proposed and implemented. Devices are placed on the human body to collect data, which is then ...

Choosing the appropriate device as the foundation for your new design can be overwhelming. The need to make the right balance of price, performance, and power consumption has many implications.

This project includes inverse assemblers for the Intel 8031 and 8051 microcontrollers and high-speed variants to be used with older Hewlett-Packard and Agilent logic analyzers. The inverse assembler ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. FPGAs are wonderful tools. They consist of a collection of logic cells called lookup tables (LUTs) surrounded by an ...