Making music can be an expensive hobby, particularly if you don’t set limits on the equipment you’re willing to shell out for. That’s the fate musician Alex Coover, aka Glacial Geyser, came close to ...

[Kerry Wong] comes across the coolest hardware, and always manages to do something interesting with it. His widget du jour is an old demo board for a digital RF attenuator chip, which can pad a signal ...

I f you have a home lab, you probably think first about servers, networking gear, and SBCs. Those are all great tools, but ...

The FM receiver module is based on the TEA5767 [1, 2] chip. It is a well-known module that could be controlled via the I2C bus. It covers the FM frequency range from 76MHz to 108MHz. At the output, it ...

TheMIDInator MIDI controller has been created by Switch & Lever using an Arduino Mega with its 54 digital IO and 16 analog pins to provide a wealth of inputs enabling data to pass onto a digital audio ...

This article will help you build a simple Arduino-based DCC system. Growing up in the 1980s I was living the dream. I had an ...

Arduino has found its way into yet another musical device. I came across the ‘UFO’ while in Berlin. It’s a MIDI controller that lets you compose music or control synthesizers by waving your hands ...

With surface-mount technology pushing the size of components ever smaller, even the most eagle-eyed among us needs some kind of optical assistance to do PCB work. Lots of microscopes have digital ...

A light meter is a very useful device that finds applications in hospitals, schools, factories, parking lots, passageways, and many more to measure and maintain adequate lighting levels. It is also ...