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3-07-2018 | The 2018 edition of the Tour de France, the world’s most famous bicycle race, starts next week. If you are going to follow this event you wi...

20-05-2018 | We have a look at the ‘Smart Video Car Kit for Raspberry Pi’ manufactured by SunFounder, a kit for a small Raspberry-Pi-based Wi-Fi-remote-c...

18-04-2018 | Taiwanese startup Cubiio Muherz ran a successful crowdfunding campaign last year on Indiegogo to finance a mini desktop laser engraver. By c...

14-03-2018 | Even though LoRa is intended for communication between devices at the surface of the earth, nothing forbids us (except maybe regulatory agen...

20-02-2018 | Sometimes you get really odd projects touted on crowd-funding sites. One such novel ‘device’ that appeared recently on Indiegogo promises fr...

7-02-2018 | Deep discharging of lithium-ion polymer (LiPo) batteries to under 3 volts per cell may permanently damage them. Luckily it is easy enough to...

16-01-2018 | Often projects are started on Elektor Labs with lots of enthusiasm and good intentions. Experiments are done, circuits are breadboarded, and...

9-01-2018 | When you can build a device exactly as you want it, the result may not be useful to many people. However, often the project itself contains...

2-01-2018 | Sailboat racing requires mastering the winds (among others). How about displaying wind speed and direction data for each course marker on a...

19-09-2017 | -- Hey guys, look what I made. I put a ball bearing in the center of this flat multi-lobed structure so that it can spin along its axis. Tha...