You might think that CD players and DVD players have had their run, but as it turns out, they are absolute goldmines for DIY projects. Pop one open and you'll find stepper motors, laser assemblies, ...

The essential problem of measuring water content and dynamics in plants may seem simple enough. To this day, however, the water-monitoring toolbox remains surprisingly limited, especially where ...

For the last ten to fifteen years, optical drives have been fading out of existence. There’s little reason to have them around anymore unless you are serious about archiving data or unconvinced that ...

One challenge of teaching chemical analysis is the proliferation of sophisticated, but often impenetrable, instrumentation in the modern laboratory. Complex instruments, and the software that runs ...

After being inspired by RYNO motors and other self-balancing scooters from Segway, I always wanted to build something of my own Arduino Segway Robot. Thinking for a while, I decided to build a Self ...

The stepper motor control shield based on Infineon’s h-bridge IFX9201 and XMC1300 microcontroller is capable of driving the two coils in a stepper motor featuring dual-h-bridge configuration. The ...