For the Professional Maker: Hands-on with the Lattice Modular Embedded Vision Development Kit - Story
May 25, 2018Machine vision has been around in practical terms since the early 1980s, with experiments in this technology dating back even earlier. In the beginning, even reading a single letter took many seconds.
For the Professional Maker: Raspberry Pi helps create a cottage industry of DIY game systems - Story
April 26, 2018If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, you were likely amazed when devices like the Nintendo Game Boy and Sega Game Gear came onto the scene, enabling you to play versions of Mario or Sonic on the go.
Camera slider controls upgrade yields valuable prototyping lessons - Story
April 11, 2018One thing I?ve enjoyed integrating into videos are physically panning shots, taken with a slider. My setup worked well, but the controls were extremely poor.
For the Professional Maker: Hands-on with the OSD3358-SM-RED single-board computer - Story
April 03, 2018These devices cram up to a 1 GHz processor, ADC, Ethernet capabilities, and 1 GB of DDR2 RAM into an enclosure the size of a nickel.
For the Professional Maker: Raspberry Pi 3 B+ boosts the Pi 3?s processing and communication capabilities - Product
March 20, 2018This year, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has stepped its game up with the Pi Model B+.
For the Professional Maker: Use stepper motors in your next Arduino MakerPro project - Blog
March 02, 2018When using an Arduino board, DC motors and hobby servos are relatively easy to control, but stepper motors require a bit more electronic fiddling to get working correctly.
For the Professional Maker: Choose the right motor type for your build - Blog
February 19, 2018When working with MCUs and the like, blinking lights and OLED outputs are fun, but to create something that actually moves, your first choice will normally be a DC motor.
For the Professional Maker: Sensor options for MCUs - Product
February 01, 2018While Arduino boards and the like can respond to serial inputs from a computer, to really take advantage of MCUs and their associated development boards, you need an array of sensors.
For the Professional Maker: Extra hardware needed to get started with the Raspberry Pi Zero - Blog
January 24, 2018First off, the Pi Zero doesn?t use a standard HDMI connector, or even RCA-style outputs, but needs a mini-HDMI cable.
For the Professional Maker: Simple device-to-device communication with the NRF24L01+ module - Other
December 29, 2017While the NRF24L01+'s range is limited to 100 meters or less line-of-sight, it?s perfect for simple remote control and data transmission applications.
For the Professional Maker: Benefits of publishing your work for MakerPros - Other
December 14, 2017By moving on to the next project or task without reflecting on and recording what we?ve done, we lose some important benefits that we could get from documenting our projects.
For the Professional Maker: LoRaWAN: Long-Range IoT with no strings attached - Other
December 01, 2017The LoRaWAN low power wide area network operates on the open radio spectrum, meaning that anyone is free to set up a LoRa network without data transmission fees.
For the Professional Maker: I?C for Arduino joystick control - Other
November 02, 2017Instead of buttons, potentiometers, and the like being fed directly into your microprocessor, you can take care of this with a few wires, and the near-ubiquitous I?C protocol.
For the Professional Maker: Making a WiFi jack-o-lantern with the WeMos D1 Mini ESP8266 - Other
October 25, 2017As my first foray into a ?useful? ESP8266 device, I decided to make a pumpkin that can be controlled via a smart device on my local network.
For the Professional Maker: Control devices and communicate with the I?C bus specification - Other
October 04, 2017One of the most popular protocols for facilitating integrated circuit communication is I2C. Since October 2006, no licensing fees are needed for implementation of the protocol.
For the Professional Maker: Raspberry Pi smart home solutions - Other
September 21, 2017You can build up your own smart home to your exact specifications for a very reasonable price by using various flavors of Raspberry Pi, available for as little as five dollars.
For the Professional Maker: Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero W: Linux computing in an even smaller package - Other
August 18, 2017What would you do with a Raspberry Pi Zero or Zero W?
For the Professional Maker: MakerPro: Custom computer volume control knob and mute button - Blog
August 04, 2017MakerPro: I found that I had hotkeys on my keyboard that worked for mute and volume control functions, but the ergonomics are lacking.
For the Professional Maker: The Adafruit Trinket: A Tiny Dev Board for When a Few I/O Pins is Enough - Blog
July 14, 2017The board features an ATtiny85 microcontroller for processing, giving it 8K of flash memory and five available I/O pins.
Show off your robotic prowess with robot-sumo competitions - News
July 06, 2017[Image by RoboCore Robot Sumo by Paulolenz via Wikimedia Commons, CCA-SA 3.0] In human competition, one could argue that there is no purer expression of sport than pitting one person directly...