We all like cheap items off eBay especially if they do cool and unusual things, sometimes we get so carried away by the price that we do not even realize that fact that we do not know anything about ...

A pocket watch, tucked into a waistcoat pocket and trailing a long chain, is a retro-hip accessory. A pocket watch gutted of its mechanical innards and updated as a smart appliance might be a ...

Do you desire a teeny, tiny, little Arduino board with OLED display? You bet you do! Microview is a new “chip-sized” Arduino on Kickstarter that costs $45. What can it do? All kinds of stuff! You ...

Makers, hobbyists and developers that enjoying building projects using the Arduino platform might be interested in a new Arduino compatible micro controller called the Pixelduino, that is equipped ...

Arduino is little open source circuit board that lets you create some fairly compelling projects with a few lines of code and some circuit boards. The latest addition to the project is LiquidWare’s ...

Learn how to easily adjust the contrast of a 1602 LCD display using Arduino. In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you a simple trick to control the contrast electronically, without relying solely on the ...

Anyone who follows my articles here at TweakTown knows that I am a sucker for new Arduino-compatible development kits, and I especially like the micro-sized boards that are easily hidden inside ...

Arduino users may be interested in a new mini OLED display created by Rabid Prototypes which combines a 32-bit 48MHz ARM Cortex M0+ micro-controller complete with colour OLED display and MicroSD card ...