After a water crossing, overheating, and vibration destroyed my phone, Garmin's new Zumo XT3 proved there's still a place for ...

Ranchers are leaning on GPS collars, remote sensors and artificial intelligence to ease the pains of a tough livelihood, one ...

Why buy one when you can build it cheaper?

Let’s face it: As we age, our vision and balance aren’t what they used to be. These changes to our senses can be minor annoyances but can also lead to injury, from stubbed toes to serious falls.

Editor’s note: In this Design Idea (DI), contributor Bonicatto designs a digital filter system (DFS). This is a benchtop filtering system that can apply various filter types to an incoming signal. The ...

Patients are being warned to stop using some glucose monitors made by Abbott Diabetes Care after the company found malfunctioning sensors may be linked to hundreds of adverse events and several deaths ...

The fuel and spark strategies for a supercharged street car are only as smart as the sensors feeding data to the ECM. Here’s what happens when a blown beast’s MAP sensor can’t keep up, and how to fix ...

Researchers have developed a system, called ProxiCycle, that logs when a passing car comes too close to a cyclist (four feet or less). A small, inexpensive sensor plugs into bicycle handlebars and ...

This is a library for the Arduino IDE that helps interface with ST's VL53L4CD time-of-flight distance sensor. The library makes it simple to configure the sensor and read range data from it via I²C.

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Modern vehicles rely on a massive amount of electrical systems, sensors, and control modules to keep the wheels turning. Some of those devices are well-known, like your car's main computer or engine ...

Hall effect sensors are everywhere right now. Keyboards, game controllers, and DIY kits use them for more precise inputs. But with any newly popular device, it can be easy to immediately jump onto the ...