In this article Steve tells us about GALs and how to get started with them. No we are not talking about female hobbyist or how to pick up girls. GAL is short for Generic Array Logic. If your home projects use logic parts then you will be interested in GALs. These parts may be the […]

Shawn introduces us to several Wiki projects which are excellent resources for the electronics hobbyist.
This article was submitted by Shawn Jones as part of the “Hobby parts for articles” program. Shawn will receive a BoArduino kit from adafruit for this great article.

How can a wiki help me in this hobby? […]

My son is about to graduate as an Electronics Engineer and is doing a project involving DSP and RF (radio frequency). He needed a good source for an LO (local oscillator) for his radio and ended up purchasing an interesting kit at AmQRP. This kit uses an Analog Devices AD9850 DDS chip which you have […]

I just got a pile of goodies from Wright Hobbies. I plan on using this stuff in upcoming projects and would welcome any suggestions.  Eddy Wright contacted me about getting a reciprocal link on uCHobby so I checked out his site. Wright Hobbies focuses on robotics and offers a nice starter kit for microcontroller […]

Bernard introduces us to the dsPIC microcontroller. He shows us his Arduino like project board for a dsPIC and gives advice on software development tools.
This article was submitted by Bernard Klinc as part of the “Hobby parts for articles” program. Bernard received a graphic LCD module for this great article. You may remember Bernard […]

I did some more scrounging to create a mini Locnar using the LEDs from a Glade Light Show air freshener. The wall wart had previously been scrounged from this air freshener for the bread board power supply. Now we reuse part of the circuit board with the LEDs combined with what we learned in […]