The maker community continues to influence product design with rapid prototyping, open-source hardware, and DIY innovation. SBCs, sensors, and dev kits empower hobbyists and professionals to explore automation, robotics, and IoT. Platforms like Arduino and Raspberry Pi lower the barrier to entry for learning and experimentation. Electronics Weekly supports this community with updates on tools, community projects, competitions, and product announcements driving creativity and grassroots engineering.
A touch more work over the weekend for the rev counter into a solid form that can be tried on the cnc lathe when it is re-assembled. Although some potential upgrades have been identified, the software is in a thoroughly usable condition. Find other Engineer in Wonderland cnc stuff here In the photo on the right, it is sitting in ...
At next week’s electronica in Munich (15-18 November) Farnell is hosting a competition in association with nearBees, an online platform designed to assist beekeepers in Germany in establishing and maintaining local honeybee colonies. Members of the element14 Community can enter the Save the Bees design challenge, using Ardunio’s MKR1310 and Arduino Pro Nicla vision boards to create a project that ...
RS Components has been running a mini-series on Team SeaQuest, a bunch of maker-engineers brought together to build a boat with a particular mission, followed on RS’s DesignSpark website. This episode sees the team and its prototypes at QinetiQ’s huge ocean simulator for scale model boats in Hampshire. This fascinating facility has a tank 121m long, 61m wide and 5.5m deep ...
Mouser Electronics continues to increase its Pimoroni offering, adding the PIM486 Enviro and the Pirate Audio accessories from the Sheffield-based company. Pimoroni was founded in 2012, designing and manufacturing breakout boards, kits and add-ons for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit. The company name – pronounced Pih-mo-row-knee, is based on ‘pirate, monkey, robot, ninja’ and the company’s mission is to make electronics ...
On the web there is a rather classy looking site that will design involute gears for you, and output DXF or SVG CAD files so that you can make them. And it looks like it came about through the generosity of someone called Abel Vincze. According to the site: “Why this tool was created? Just for fun. I’m working on ...
Makerspace at Guildford Library is a series of events, rather than a permanent facility, held in Surrey. The Makerspace has its own equipment (and a meetup page), which is installed in a multi-purpose room during the events. Library staff also do out-reach events (to schools for example) and in-house courses and workshops (Arduino for example), and the Makerspace has a ...
I came across a delightful little workbench on YouTube, made on a channel called Pask Makes, which features a guy making all sorts of things. The bench appears to be one of a series, where useful things are made of scrap wood. It is not the clever sort of portable bench that uses braced hollow sections for lightweight and strength, ...
A million members have joined Avnet’s online collaborative networks of engineers, entrepreneurs and developers – element14.com and Hackster.io. Avnet acquired both element14 (as part of Premier Farnell) and Hackster.io in 2016. Since then, the combined membership grew by approximately 48% year over year. element14 is a discussion-based online community where engineers collaborate to solve one another’s design challenges. Members can ...
Ruuvi has announced that the first public beta of its Ruuvi Station mobile application for controlling IoT sensors is now available on Play Store. The app superpowers RuuviTag sensors Also an iOS version is on its way and a 3rd party app is already available on Apple App Store. The RuuviTag open source sensor beacon, which is a stand-alone Bluetooth ...
Just this useful guide to Raspbian and other Raspberry Pi software. Downloadable from Eltechs, this guide contains information which will beinteresting for both new-starters and advanced Raspberry Pi (or other ARM and IoT) users and developers. Raspbian is the main and basic software for Raspberry Pi devices, officially supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It is an operating system, based ...
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