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. […]

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 […]

MPJA has a $15 soldering station which I could not resist to try out. I already have a Weller station but for the price I figured why not get a spare. In this article I compare the low cost $15 station to the $120 professional grade Weller. I highly recommend the Weller station but if […]