It might look like a random pile of wires to some, but it is far from random: [Paulo Constantino] built this 8-bit CPU himself from scratch. He built his remarkable creation using wires and 74HC shift ...

I'm trying to get block detection working on my HO scale model railroad. I found this page and liked the idea of using current transformers to detect the Digital Command Control signal inducing ...

In a level of open criticism that's unusually frank for Microsoft's corporate-friendly business-networking site, hobbyist electronics vendor Adafruit published a stinging assessment of the rewritten ...

Qualcomm has acquired Arduino, maker of microcontrollers (and now single-board computers), in a move designed to boost its presence in edge computing, as evidenced by a new Arduino product based on ...

The Arduino UNO Q has landed, and it’s not just another board in the lineup; it’s the most connected one yet. With a Qualcomm processor, STM microcontroller, and brand-new software support, this ...

Abstract: A circulating shift register is an n-stage binary shift register with feedback from stage n to stage 1. We refer to the state cycles of the circulating shift register as natural cycles. Two ...

In May 2024, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced Marvel would be shifting its focus to quality over quantity. Instead of four movies and TV shows per year, Marvel would scale back and only release two to ...

Amazon Dash is a handy service, and when Amazon released their AWS IoT platform, [Brian Carbonette] felt that it left out all the hardware hackers from the tinkering fun. Seeking justice, he put ...

Example performed using a NodeMCU v 1.0 ESP-12 variant. It should work with other ESP8266 hardware with changes to the gpios. There are two different code sketches. One that uses the ShiftIn() ...