Unboxing the Sparkfun RED-V Thing Plus Board

Unboxing the RED-V Thing Plus Not too long ago, a relatively new instruction set architecture (ISA) hit the embedded programming...
Fireworks Celebration in Singapore (Source: Wikimedia Commons, Author: chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Embedded Technology Watchlist: 2020-2030

Embedded systems are constantly changing the way we live and work. Now that the year 2020 is here, we've decided to...

Review: The C Programming Language

The C Programming Language is a bit of an anomaly among software programming books.  It has maintained relevance over the course of more than...

Review: The Hobbyist’s Guide to the RTL-SDR

Wireless electronics are becoming more and more flexible thanks to a relatively new class of radio called the software-defined radio (SDR).  Older,...

Electric Element: Silver

Silver’s common name originated from the Anglo-Saxon word for the material: selofor or siolfur.  The somewhat puzzling atomic symbol of Ag is...

Heroic 911 Dispatcher Demonstrates Lateral Thinking

Sometimes, creative design and problem-solving are indistinguishable.  Developers and technology leaders use advanced resources to deal with challenging design scenarios.  But occasionally,...

Unboxing the Sparkfun RISC-V RedBoard

You may have heard about a relatively new type of computing device called the RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”).  The RISC-V is a newcomer...
Software Defined Radio (SDR) Brings Air Traffic Monitoring to the Linux Desktop Environment

Changes Coming to Aircraft-Tracking ADS-B

Lately, I’ve been using some of the very inexpensive Realtek Software Defined Radio (RTL-SDR) receivers to passively listen to different radio bands. ...

Software Defined Radio for Raspberry Pi 3B+ (Part 2)

Recapping Part 1 Welcome to Part 2 of our guide for setting up the Raspberry Pi 3B+ for Software...

Travel Season Cybercrimes to Avoid

In the United States, the Thanksgiving holiday travel season is in full spate.  Last year, the American Automobile Association (AAA) estimated 54.3...