Aubrey Kagan is a talented engineer with years of experience designing embedded systems. He’s also a prolific author. Between 2000 and 2010 he published 15 articles with Circuit Cellar on topics ranging from developing an AC current generator to resilience … Continue reading →

Do you want to add a powerful wireless Android device to your own projects? Now you can, and doing so is easier than you think. With their high-resolution touchscreens, ample computing power, WLAN support, and telephone functions, Android smartphones and … Continue reading →

A while back, I designed a camera and flash control device that will be the subject of a future Circuit Cellar magazine article.  This device, which I affectionately call Photo-Pal, allows me to use sound (or a contact closure) to … Continue reading →

I get to meet and interact with creative engineers and researchers around the world who are working on innovative MCU-based projects. Some of them show up at our office to chat. Others I meet with when I travel to California … Continue reading →

Roboticists and soccer fans from around the world converged on Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from April 25–29 for the Roboup Dutch Open. The event was an interesting combination of sports and electronics engineering. Since I have dozens of colleagues based in … Continue reading →