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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fig 1. Electronics are not only fun but also relatively easy to learn. Kids age 10 and above can easily pick up useful electronic skills like soldering. Fig 2. SparkFun’s Simon Says product is a ...

There comes a time when almost everyone struggles to collect costly components for hobby electronics experiments. Let us face it. When a new idea pops up, a profitable strategy is to repurpose some ...

This site targets the electronics hobbyist. Here is what they say about their site: “Here at The Electronics Hobbyist we highly encourage you to experiment with the seriously fun world of hobby ...

2020 and all its ills have claimed another stalwart among PC builders and electronics hobbyists: Fry’s announced yesterday that they have closed up shop for good after nearly 36 years in business both ...