Designing a Breadboard Adaptor for the $5 ESP8266 Microcontroller
The ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible, but to the most common breakout board isn’t breadboard friendly. So we go ahead and build a breadboard adaptor (Part 3 of 3)
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Installing and Building an Arduino Sketch for the $5 ESP8266 Microcontroller
The ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible, we walk you through installing the development environment and uploading your first sketch. (Part 2 of 3)
ESP8266: This $5 Microcontroller with Wi-Fi is now Arduino-Compatible
What if you could have an Arduino compatible board, with WiFi, for just $5? Well now you can, because the ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible.
Lydia Kenselaar’s Rib Cage Sweater Hack
Lydia Kenselaar refashioned the guts of a cabled sweater into an amazingly realistic knitted rib cage with this brilliant sweater hack way
Pinball Wizard, Race Car Driver, Self-Taught Engineer: Jeri Ellsworth
Jeri is a truly amazing person, who any aspiring engineer or technical entrepreneur can look up to. A self-taught hardware designer, Jeri has created products, hacked hardware, and shared her knowledge with the maker community for years. Her latest venture is as co-founder of Technical Illusions, developer of the castAR augmented reality system.
Projects with Ryan Slaugh: Simple Amplifier
Building upon my last video, I’ve decided to make a simple circuit using some op-amps. ย One is the general op-amp LM741. The other is a specific op-amp, LM386, that is designed for audio amplification. This circuit can be used to amplify microphones or be used as a circuit sniffer depending on what you connect to […]
Hacking the Fingerprint Scanner on the Apple iPhone 5s
Just days after the release of the iPhone 5s last weekโwhich comes with a fingerprint scanner built into the home buttonโthe biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) claims to have successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple’s TouchID.
