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How to Design Common Emitter Amplifier

“Amplifiers are used to increase the voltage and current of a weak signal to desired level.There are two types of amplifiers.They are given below. In DC amplifiers,if you increase the voltage of DC Signal then the current …

Hybrid Digital-Analog Circuits Can Increase Computational Power of Chaos-Based Systems

“New research from North Carolina State University has found that combining digital and analog components in nonlinear, chaos-based integrated circuits can improve their computational power by enabling processing of a larger number of inputs. This “best of both worlds” approach …

Internet of Things Lighthouse Using Arduino ESP8266 & WS2812 LED

“A Lighthouse showing the current temperature outside as read by an IoT thermometer logging to Thingspeak. This whole idea was brought about by another Raspberry Pi Certified Educator and Computing at Schools Coordinator, Lorraine Underwood. She produced a thermometer that …

People Counter for $30 Using an ESP8266 an NodeMCU

“A people counter is a device that used to measure the number of people traversing an entrance, hallway, street corner, etc. If you need to know how many people exist in a space - this is your simple solution. Mostly used …

Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound effect chip from die photos

“Remember the old video game Space Invaders? Some of its sound effects were provided by a chip called the 76477 Complex Sound Generation chip. While the sound effects1 produced by this 1978 chip seem primitive today, it was used in …

Soil Water Level Status Using ESP8266

“Hi friends, in this instructable we will learn to get the status of the water content of the soil in which the plant is growing. We will send an E-Mail which will display the water content in the soil. Here …

Spiderbot V2 - Robot Car

“Spiderbot V2 is an upgrade version of my last project: https://www.instructables.com/id/3D-printed-Transformers-Robot-Spiderbot/ . The Spiderbot is inspired by the “Transformers”. It is a RC quadruped robot and has two modes of operation: spider and vehicle, just like …

Project  StripClock

StripClock

“This is actually a project I did quite a while ago (the git repository goes back to September 2014), when the WS2812 LEDs became really popular and ubiquitous. Naturally, I had to get a 5 metre strip of them as …

The Annoy-O-Bug: A Chirping Light-Up Throwie

“Stick this little electronic device practically anywhere and watch your friends go crazy as it beeps and blinks. They won’t find it! Small enough to slip in a mint tin, yet loud enough to be heard across a house …

Web Clock Version 2.0

“This digital clock is based on ESP8266 WIFI micro-controller unit. The flavor used for project design and creation is WEMOS D1 mini which is equipped with a ESP-12F (ESP8266), a 5v to 3.3v regulator, a CH340G USB to …