Unboxing Tomorrow

The Raspberry Pi is a low-cost computer with interfaces available for displays, human input devices, and multimedia equipment.  But sometimes it is...

The RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) is rapidly gaining traction with electronics and robotics enthusiasts.  Thanks to new development kits like the...

If you are a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 user, the on-board Wi-Fi radio is probably more than just a convenience, but...

For avid readers, electronic paper (ePaper) is a welcome publishing innovation thanks to lightweight e-Readers.  This display technology stands apart due to...

By now, you’ve probably encountered plenty of notices and safety labels warning about static electricity around high-tech components. Normally,...

The Python programming language has basically become a lingua franca of machine learning and machine vision.  While there are many other languages...

The Raspberry Pi single-board computers are a great starting point for machine vision research.  One of the many reasons why is the...

With its two Arm Cortex cores operating at 480 MHz and 240 MHz, the Arduino Portenta H7 is the most powerful Arduino...

Inexpensive microcontrollers have seen a resurgence thanks to the internet of things (IoT) and wearable devices.  These end-uses depend on parts that...

In industrial prototyping, we apply engineering principals to new designs in order to avoid errors.  This includes use of advanced math and...