| Users of the Nintendo Wii and Play station 3 ‘tilt’ controllers have raved about the more intuitive control these devices offer. Up until no...
| Users of the Nintendo Wii and Play station 3 ‘tilt’ controllers have raved about the more intuitive control these devices offer. Up until no...
| Before a robot moves, no matter if that’s walking, swimming, cruising a maze or tearing up asphalt, you need to address the interfacing and...
| Service robots of the future will most likely need to act on spoken commands and be able to recognise voices. This article takes a look at o...
| This project takes advantage of certain parts of the circuitry in a 2.4GHz digital radio chip to make a simple spectrum analyser. This can g...
| Here’s a portable instrument to measure self-inductance quickly and accurately. Coil Clinic is a one-stop, autoranging meter with microproce...
| The acoustic vertical speed indicator (VSI) described here provides an RC model glider pilot with information about the rate of climb (or de...
| Over the years, there have been a fair number of designs published enabling a radio-control (RC) transmitter to interface with a personal co...
| The circuit described in this article is incredibly sensitive to changes in the magnetic field. It can be used to detect earthquakes, but it...
| Big earthquakes are rare events, but every now and then we are startled by small shocks that (luckily!) do not usually have any serious cons...
| SD (software-defined) radio receivers use a bare minimum of hardware, relying instead on their software capabilities. This SDR project demon...