November 17, 2008 The World Wireless Research Forum predicts seven trillion devices for seven billion people by 2017. Anticipating a future in which individual consumers have hundreds, or even ...

At my house, I am the fix-it person for a number of reasons. I really like fixing things instead of throwing them out. Today's throw-away culture is not good for the environment and not good for the ...

The project is based around the AS5040 chip that uses a magnet to provide positional feedback information and 10 bits of resolution per rotation. The project is based around the AS5040 chip that uses ...

Ever wish your iPhone could hang around on, say, a refrigerator or file cabinet? If this project gets funded, it can. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

Your first do-it-yourself project as a child may well have involved magnets. Whether you glued buttons and pebbles onto magnetic backing to adorn your family’s fridge, or experimented with adding a ...