We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you have an interest in electronics and have been hanging around DIY tech forums for a while now, chances are you already know what an ...

In what follows, we will refer to these collections as “Breadboards,” “Tools,” and “Components” for short. For example, when working with semiconductors such as transistors, diodes (including ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Even if you're new to the electronics and programming world, you've definitely heard of the Raspberry Pi and how it's used for a host of ...

WHAT is twice as fun as a motor? Two motors. Last week, we learned how to meet their power-hungry needs. Now, we can double up – and because the micro:bit can control them, we can make a robot that ...

IN OUR previous 10-week “How to be a maker” series, we went on a tour of the basics, culminating in building an autonomous biscuit-fetching robot. If you missed it, you can catch up online at the ...

Before we leap into the fray with gusto and abandon, if you are new to this series, you can quickly catch up with the rest of us by perusing and pondering our earlier columns (see Part 1, Part 2, Part ...