“I looked at all the available rotary encoder sketches and none of them met my needs, so I have written my own, and here it is”. Well, I looked at all the ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

[Mitxela]’s repair of a Roland JV-1080 (a rack-mounted 90s-era synthesizer) sounds simple: replace a broken rotary encoder on the front panel. It turned out to be anything but simple, since the part ...

You can use an old rotary telephone dialer in conjunction with your microcontroller to implement all sorts of things; for example, you could use it to enter a series of numbers to unlock a safe. You ...

It isn’t hard to imagine a scenario where you are stuck at home all day with nothing to do and certain items are in short supply. Sure, bathroom tissue gets all the press, but try buying some flour or ...

We’ve featured a lot of interesting DIY timepieces in the past (most recently this Arduino Sesame Street creation) and the community keeps on creating new ones. Andy Evans, who goes by the username ...