Recently, we published an entry-level Arduino project with a single seven-segment LED display. Although it’s an amazing DIY project, we noted that most of the readers are looking for more advanced ...

This article will help you build a simple Arduino-based DCC system. Growing up in the 1980s I was living the dream. I had an ...

I have been pondering how to quickly and accurately manually set up a 16bit binary number in an Arduino (or other microcontroller). This problem has arisen since my (mostly) lovely FY6900 DDS signal ...

A tachometer used to be an accessory added to the dash of only the sportiest of cars, but now they’re pretty much standard equipment on everything from sleek coupes to the family truckster. If your ...

Digital displays are useful for quick and accurate readout, but lots of people prefer the physical motion of a needle moving along a dial. For instance, many smartwatch users choose an analog face to ...

My idea for manually setting a 16bit number using two potentiometers worked technically, but was not the brilliant method I had vaingloriously imagined 🙁 Not in summary, read on…. Note: scroll down ...