Hardware – Protological

Working with the LinkIt Smart 7688

As an embedded systems engineer I am always interested in new systems. I’ve worked with the NixCore X1 boards and got pretty deep in to …

While in China I picked up a USB microscope for $25 USD. It’s an “2MP HD microscope with 600x magnification” according to the box and …

Wow, it’s been a crazy few months. I am taking some courses for my masters, started a few contracting gigs and went to China with …

I’ve found myself in the situation a few times where I was trying to explain that PCBs can be routed using a low cost CNC, like the 3040 CNC …

As I mentioned before I haven’t worked with the Arduino family much since I tend to be working on different processors than 8-bit ATMega chips. …

I finally got tired of punching numbers into my calculator for debounce circuits so I came up with a small javscript app to determine capacitance, …

I have a project which requires full control of the camera board on a Raspberry Pi from a custom C application, so I recently started …

I have an electric scooter project that has been on and off again for a while now, I get to it when I can when it’s …

Oooh yeah I got 3 ESP8266 WiFi boards in the mail today from SeeedStudios. Now lets make a project! For those that don’t know the ESP8266 …

Lets start off with a post that dives into one of the uglier sides of electronics, switch bounce. Every time a switch closes, mechanical contacts …