I got an e-mail recently from Forrest Mims, author of most of Radio Shack's electronics project books—over 7.5 million served! Despite those bestseller-like figures, Mims reports that the hobby ...

Here’s an interesting take on using augmented reality alongside hobby electronics. The project, which comes from a group of researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory, starts off by making simple ...

That DIY Daft Punk helmet with the pulsing LED lights on Pinterest seems light-years away from those do-it-yourself ham radio ads in vintage Sears Roebuck catalogs, about as far as the iPhone 6 is ...

A site for electronics hobbyists. Lonnie documents cool projects with the Arduino microprocessor as well as the TI MSP430 Launchpad. Join Lonnie in his adventures through hobby electronics.

A short while back, I wrote an article entitled Whatever Happened to the Electronic Hobbyist? Most of you agreed with my conclusions, but your comments revealed some interesting alternative viewpoints ...

I spent years trying to teach myself the basics of electronics. I had a few basic electronics courses in engineering school, but they were high-end theory, and only years later did I find it unusual ...