We have four winners in this contest. To support the electronics hobby community uCHobby has a give away program where hobbyist receive interesting electronics parts and kits in exchange for links, articles and by winning comment contest at the site. This giveaway contest was for comments on the Wright Hobbies prototyping boards Six Prototyping […]

We have two current contest at uCHobby, both are related to the package of 6 prototyping boards from Wright Hobbies. Read more about these contest in the sponsor announcement and the prototyping board review articles.
An ending date was not specified but I think now is a good time to announce some of the winners […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Arduino team has created a fantastic product and shared it with the world. I thank them greatly and admire their efforts. The package they have developed is and will continue to be a great way for people to get started in microcontrollers. My hat is off to them for some very fine work. But […]

We are shipping another round of Arduino kits from Modern Device Company and some LED kits from Alan’s Electronics Projects. We have a backlog of articles right now. We will try to get them out at two a week or more.
The free parts for links or articles is still going strong. If you have […]

What’s going on at uC Hobby? In this update: An Ardunio video done by a uCHobby regular!, Article submission status, status of the next uCHobby Giveaway item, a plea for help selecting an electronics CAD package, and plans for a predefined set of electronics bin cabinet labels. Leave a comment or send an email with […]

The Arduino compatible kit for an article program is going well. We have a bunch of great articles which will be posted at about one article a week. Maybe we should up that a bit. The authors are anxious to see their articles published. Thank you for the great submissions.

We should send out a bunch […]

The Arduino Compatible kits arrived from the Modern Device Company today. I could not wait to build one up and try it out. I am impressed with the quality of this kit and the assembly instructions. This kit is a great deal for $15. You can buy a student package which contains 15 kits and […]