One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

Semiconductor giant Qualcomm announced Tuesday that it will acquire Arduino, the Italian electronics company known for its affordable circuit boards that are popular with hobbyists. The price of the ...

Abstract: The massive quantity of electricity gets used in lights through roadways in India. Still, roadways remain empty for nearly all of the day after at night, with a handful of cars passing ...

An 8-sensor LDR line following robot using ESP32 with dual-threshold hysteresis algorithm. The project includes both Arduino IDE and ESP-IDF development environments, plus threshold calibration tools.

In recent years, integrating smart home devices into your living space has never been simpler. They have become easier to set up with user-friendly apps and step-by-step guides, and some are ...

Arduino Nicla Sense Env is a new sensor module with temperature, humidity, and gas (TVOC, NO2, O3) sensing that follows the launch of the Arduino Nicla Sense ME (Motion & Environment) module over ...

I recently had to build an infrared close proximity sensor that could tell if something was dropped in a parcel delivery drop box. After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece ...

Esgualepado Line-Follower (ESGLF) Basically, ESGLF is a LDR array meant to serve as a full packged sensor to follow lines made by Team Esgualepado, from Brazil. The LDRs displacement is strategic with ...