uCHobby has its first sponsor! To celebrate we are giving away some very nice prototyping boards. Not just one board but a collection of six which represent the products available from Wright Hobbies.
Wright Hobbies is our first sponsor and we hope to have a few more in the future. At uCHobby we are about […]

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 […]

I wrote about using a ping ball as an LED diffuser in this previous article. One major issue with this idea was that the LED has a focused light that creates a bright spot on the ball opposite where the LED is. You can see problem in the picture here.
There were a lot of […]

Received my WiiChuck Adaptors today. Now I just need to buy a WiiChuck and figure out a neat project for an Arduino. I learned about the adaptor from this Make blog article.
The WiiChuck is an accessory attachment to the Nintendo Wii remote. This accessory has 3-axis accelerometers, a 2-axis joystick (thumb) and two […]

S1axter reports that Geeksinside.com is running a comment contest. Just leave a comment on a post or article and get entered to win a $25 gift certificate to SparkFun Electronics! This contest is open to anyone through February 29th, 2008.
Check out the contest rules: http://geeksinside.com/rules.php

The SigGen1 board is working! It’s been a while since the initial post about this project so an update is long over due. This article provides an update, also including the schematic and bill of materials. The operation and features are briefly covered. I am currently working on an Arduino library to control the DDS […]