Being the versatile single-board computer that it is, the Raspberry Pi can help you build all sorts of projects with all sorts of accessories. Throw in a camera, and you have a smart doorbell, ...

Oddly Specific Objects founder Joey Castillo has designed a couple of interesting open hardware projects over the years. Those include the Sensor Watch and Sensor Watch Pro, which replace the PCB in a ...

Abstract: The "Sounding Canvas" is an interactive art installation that transforms a traditional canvas into a dynamic, sound-producing interface. Users interact by touching different areas of the ...

A bright yellow PCB, a touchscreen, and an ESP32 inside: the Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) Board is turning a budget curiosity into a maker’s favorite. Every now and then a piece of hardware comes along ...

Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed such ...

Most robots, including emerging humanoids, don’t have the ability to sense what they’re touching. Last week, Loomia launched its first tactile sensing developer kit. It’s the result of the company’s ...

Renesas has recently introduced the RA4L1 ultra-low-power Arm Cortex-M33 MCU family along with two evaluation/development boards. This new lineup consists of 14 ultra-low-power devices based on an 80 ...

Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-7 is an ESP32-S3 powered WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5 LE 7-inch touchscreen display with plenty of expansion interfaces such as RS485, CAN Bus, I2C, UART, and Analog input that ...

You can't sense wetness. Your fingers use temperature and other sensory clues to assemble a sense of whether something you touch is dry or wet, and it does an amazing job. Similarly, soil moisture ...