In this article Steven Moughan shows us how to setup for PIC microcontroller development on Linux. Steve writes the following…
PICs are great, they really are… they have great features, decent instruction sets,
there’s lots to choose from, their manufacturer released a great IDE (MPlab) what could go wrong? Unfortunately the PIC is somewhat lacking when […]

In this short article Frank provides example code to use the Nintendo Wii Nunchuck as a mouse. In this previous article we looked at the Nunchuck and an adaptor board I purchased from Todbot. I also mentioned making a mouse device using the Nunchuck using ideas from Bernard’s Accelerometer Based Mouse article. Frank has done […]

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 […]

Daniel Joliffe has been updating the Freeduino site. One of the exciting changes is that he has free advertising for sites devoted to DIY and open hardware. I am honored to be one of the sites given this opportunity.
Featured sites include the main Arduino site, Libelium, Modern Device Company, NKC Electronics, PHAndeson, RepRap, The Shoppe […]

I noticed an Google Ad Sense advertisement on my site for NerdKits and decided to take a look. I don’t normally click on ads at my own site as that would get me in trouble with Google but the name “NerdKits” compelled me. What a great site this turned out to be.
NerdKits is selling a […]

KICAD is free and open source engineering design software, including schematic capture and PCB layout tools. There is even a plug-in that does 3D modeling of your PCB. Versions for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX are available From what I can tell after playing with it a short time, it is complete and well done. […]

While reading though the incoming RSS today I came across Liberlab via this post at Hack247. Liberlab is another movement like the Arduino. The project is open source and has the following stated goal.
“The Open Source project Liberlab aims to help democratize educational scientific experimentation through the creation and use of a DIY digital […]

In a previous uCHobby article I discussed the AVR Oscilloscope Clock Kit form Dutchtronix. This neat product uses an oscilloscope in XY mode to display a full real time clock face. In that article I suggested that the XY scope trick might be used to make a text and graphics display for bench projects. Jan […]