Holiday Line-up!
A straightforward approach for synchronizing Christmas lights to music.
This is a fun to build desktop stereo amplifier kit that is appropriate for any experience level.
Brighten things up this holiday season with your own home-built LED tree.
Add some holiday bling this season!
Add some unpredictability to your Christmas displays using a light controller.
TechKnowledgey
by Jeff Eckert
Events, Advances, and News (12.2014)
Topics of interest this time include the world’s fastest electric motorcycle, getting your own cloud, taking your own ECG, preserving the CRT, plus some other cool stuff.
Q&A
by Tim Brown
Reader Questions Answered Here (12.2014)
Questions cover a battery monitor circuit, NiMHs over NiCads, and using an audio synthesizer IC with an eight ohm speaker.
The Spin Zone
by Jon McPhalen
Putting a Button On It
Think there’s not a lot to say about implementing buttons into your electronic projects? Guess again.
Smiley’s Workshop
by Joe Pardue
The Arduino Classroom. Arduino 101/Chapter 11: Sound
In order to make sounds using the Arduino, you need to know about arrays and interrupts.
Getting Started With 3D Printing
by Chuck Hellebuyck
Briding the Gap of Packaging With 3D Printing.
The three main areas to designing a project are: hardware, software, and packaging. While hardware and software have come a long way over the years, replicating custom enclosures has been on the expensive side ... until now.
Near Space
by L. Paul Verhage
CubeSats — Part 1
There’s a new breed of satellites in town with a lot of potential to cost-effectively and boldly go where no man has before.
