CC 274: A Sensory Experience
An Atmel ATmega88 microcontroller is at the heart of the CNC router controller.

The May issue of Circuit Cellar provides a number of articles focusing on how to utilize measurements and sensors in your designs. Knowing how to generate a magnetic field to calibrate a sensor can help with a number of DIY … Continue reading

CC273: Necessity and Invention
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Tom Cantrell wanted to stop fiddling with his sprinklers as he tried to balance conserving water in California and keeping his lawn green. So he asked himself if he could craft a weather-savvy sprinkler controller. In the April issue of … Continue reading

CC272: Issue of Ingenuity
Nelson Epp's rotational inverted pendulum (RIP)

The March issue of Circuit Cellar includes articles from a number of practical problem solvers, such as a homeowner who wanted to get a better grasp of his electrical usage and a professor who built a better-than-average music box. Dean … Continue reading

CC271: Got Range?
Colin O'Flynn's Binary Explorer Board

As with wireless connectivity, when it comes to your engineering skills, range matters. The more you know about a variety of applicable topics, the more you’ll profit in your professional and personal engineering-related endeavors. Thus, it makes sense to educate … Continue reading

CC270: Forward Progress

As you might have noticed, parts of this issue look a bit different than the publication you’re used to reading. You can see a slightly updated layout, some different colors, and a few new sections. We’ve made these changes to … Continue reading