Applications to MakeITcircular must be in by October 3, 2024 with the top prize of €3000 MakeITcircular is the contest that promotes the Circular Consumption Charter and the values of recycling, reuse and co-design. Shifting from a linear to a “circular...

Learn More About the Ideas, Makers + Projects at Maker Faire Rome 2024 Developing a multitude of technologies for the sustainability of the planet and for environmental care is imperative today. The depletion of natural resources and...

  We place metal foil notes on a panel and play our music by touching them, creating a melody from a truly original instrument. Those who know a little about music or have good memories of the...

The initiative rewards the most innovative projects in areas related to environmental sustainability. FAE Technology will manufacture the electronic board prototypes for the top three winners. The contest is organized in collaboration with FAE Technology S.p.A. an...

  Stereo power amplifier 10+10W into 8 ohms based on the integrated PAM8610, suitable for systems that require high efficiency and little heat to be dissipated.   By now, the miniaturization of electronic circuits is advancing unstoppably....

  Based on a single chip from Terminus, it allows you to connect four USB devices starting from a micro USB port; the form-factor is designed for pairing with Raspberry Pi Zero.   We all know what...

Measure the quality of the air around us using a laser technology sensor that can quantify the concentration of the infamous micro-dust. Air pollution, and in particular the presence, quantification and concentration of so-called ‘fine dust’, is...

We pick up the fascinating Nixie tubes through displays based on packages of laser-engraved plexiglass plates, illuminated by Neopixel LEDs. For those born in the era of solid-state displays, be they LED, 7-segment, dot-matrix, or even liquid...

  Let’s learn about an interesting educational platform that allows you to make and study a real multitude of electronic circuits and their applications. Among the techniques to approach students and very young people, the one of...

  We develop and test applications with the Pro midi 1284P board.   Recently we have introduced and described a new prototyping board called PRO midi 1284, based on an ATmega 1284P microcontroller; after this presentation, made...

  It is halfway between an Arduino Mini (in size) and an Arduino Mega in terms of computational capacity, available memory and integrated peripherals. Since the creation of the Arduino project and the subsequent spread of the...

  Equipped with an SD card and RTC, it detects and stores temperature, humidity and barometric pressure using a combined sensor, showing the data graphically on a touch display.   Nowadays, also and above all in environmental...

  Lots of components to make applications that can be programmed with Arduino and assembled like LEGO bricks.   How many times did you dream of building something with LEGO bricks when you were a child and...

For all electronic designers, having new ideas and sources of inspiration is essential. At the base of the open-source movement there is the sharing of one’s own projects so that other technicians can take inspiration. There are...

  Let’s interface our Energy Meter with Internet to bring measurements to the ThingSpeak platform and see the results in convenient graphs.   A few posts ago, we introduced the MCP39F511 integrated circuit, capable of performing electrical...

  It monitors the electricity consumption and sends the detected data to the cloud through the GSM cellular network; it is based on an Arduino Mega equipped with GSM Shield and a board on which the measurement...

  It monitors electricity consumption and sends the detected data to the cloud through the GSM cellular network; it is based on an Arduino Mega equipped with GSM Shield and an absorption detector board. First instalment.  ...

  With Arduino Mega, we create, a keyboard with RFID module, a configurable access control system, to manage electric locks.   In the market there are different types of controls for electric locks: from the simple insertion...