Arduino Leonardo development board

Arduino Modular Design Challenge

It's time to test out a modular text-to-speech board, and five Arduino models came to mind while looking for something to control...
Home screen with Linux applications

Pine Phone Apps Intro

Recently, we unboxed the Linux-based Pine Phone beta edition.  By default, this Linux-based and customizable smartphone shipped with the Manjaro-Arm Linux distribution...

Why People Avoid ppm

The job of expressing quantities between 0 and 1 usually falls to the percent (%) sign.  And when it's used in this...
Cryptographic hashing in Scilab

Easy Cryptographic Hashing in Scilab

Cryptographic hash functions give developers a quick way to check if two strings or files are identical.  In a recent project, Unboxing...
Sha2 hashing in Octave

Easy Cryptographic Hashing in GNU Octave

This project will generate cryptographic hashes for two types of inputs.  The first is a simple text string that these programs can...
pine phone

Pine Phone Beta Edition Unboxing

Consumers face a narrow selection when it comes to mobile phones.  Major brands leave the end user with few meaningful customizations and...
Buymeacoffee logo

Unboxing Tomorrow joins BuyMeACoffee.com

August 2022 Announcements: After a summer hiatus, Unboxing Tomorrow videos will resume, starting with an unboxing of the...
Light emitting diodes

Components Survival Guide: LEDs Part 2

White light emitting diodes (LEDs) can be fabricated from blue LEDs with a yellow-emitting phosphor or substrate.  These combined blue-yellow emissions fool...
Mixed light emitting diodes

Components Survival Guide: LEDs Part 1

LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) have dominated artificial lighting after displacing many alternatives over the years.  Even though electricity can easily damage them,...
Decimal to binary conversion

AVR Coding Part 4: Why Binary is Crucial

In written language, numbers are recorded using decimal symbols 0 through 9.  When microcontrollers need to record numbers, they often do so...