When I was shopping for some goodies at All Electronics I came across a circuit card they were selling for $1. Description indicated that the board included two voltage regulators, a crystal and assorted parts. I like to scrounge and look up the parts used in consumer electronics so I purchased one of these […]

My father bought a wind generator and we erected it Sunday afternoon. He is a HAM radio guy and RF engineer so he had a antenna tower that was perfect for the wind generator. This generator is made by Sunforce and can output 400 Watts in a strong wind and cost about $600 at […]

Erin, AKA RobotGrrl needs our help to raise money for the Stanford EPGY AI summer program. Erin is a very talented high school student that will someday be a famous robotics engineer. She represents the new breed of passionate electronics engineers that will take us kicking and screaming into the future. Her efforts so […]

Every wonder what is inside a toll way RFID tag? The windshield on one of our cars had to be replaced the other day. We removed the toll way RFID tag before taking the car to the shop so I could peek inside. I doctored the picture here so the registration number is not shown.

 
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Six prototyping boards from Wright Hobbies, a new uCHobby sponsor. This article is a brief review of the new boards. A second comment contest where you can win a set of these boards is also announced.
We announced the Wright Hobbies giveaway sponsorship in this previous article along with a comment contest. There have been a […]

Florin over at YourlTronics has a great write up on DIY PCB etching. Every step is covered in detail including setup of the printer software and the etching process.
This article is not hosted at uCHobby. Click here to read the article at YourlTronics.
We normally only have original content at uCHobby so this is an experiment. […]

uCHobby has a new page and RSS feed devoted to interesting news and electronics related articles. These are collected via a shared tag from Google Reader. I read more then 20 feeds related to Electronics and Making hobbies.  As I mark items in those feeds for follow up they should show up here. Read […]

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? […]

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 […]