Real home online cinema on an Android TV box. Cinema / surround 5.1 DIY project
Hello tekkix. I will tell you about my experience of building a home theater with multichannel sound on an Android TV box.
DIY
Explore hands-on DIY tech projects with detailed guides, tips, and tutorials. Learn how to build, modify, and innovate with the latest technology.
How I get daily news with a dot matrix printer
For a long time now, I start my day by unlocking my phone and scrolling through various news and social media to stay updated. This doesn't reflect well on my mental…
Interactive BASIC for Arduino and STM32
This project was developed for classes with schoolchildren - so that in the lesson you could program controllers, including via Bluetooth from a phone - with an interactive…
Warm Lamp Multivibrator
Interest in tube technology arises either from audiophilia, or when trying to restore a grandfather's receiver - or simply out of curiosity about retro electronics.
Five DIY projects based on Raspberry Pi: from a children's car to a navigator for the blind
Hello, tekkix residents! This is Viktor Sergeev from MTS Digital. Today I bring you a new selection of homemade systems based on the "raspberry". Under the cut - five…
How to prove Einstein's theory of relativity for $100
When you stand on the surface of the Earth, you experience collisions of surrounding atoms and molecules of the atmosphere with your body.
How we accelerated Modbus in our controller in a week
We at Lavritech develop automation devices and controllers. We have also developed a software ecosystem that can work with various interfaces, including Modbus.
Raspberry Pi for $5.43 — is it real? What can it do and why is it so cheap?
Perhaps you have already heard that Raspberry Pi announced the release of Pico 2, a second-generation microcontroller board based on the RP2350. With a higher core clock…
Tetris on ATtiny10
Deciding to use the last days of vacation to bring my stock of electronic components to some semblance of order, I came across an unknown SOT-23-6 chip with barely readable…
Doom on the dial phone Dialrhea
Dialrhea is a modified dial phone, redesigned to control Doom via Bluetooth.
Qucs-S: Guide to Simulation Types, Part 2
Qucs-S is an open-source program for electronic circuit simulation. Qucs-S is cross-platform and written in C++ using the Qt library set. My previous articles discuss…
Hardware Timer as a Microphone
In the development of electronics that includes a sound source, it is sometimes necessary to test for the presence of sound.
Goodbye, ChromeOS: a long journey to Linux with a homemade Suzy-Q cable and BIOS firmware
Hello, tekkix! This is Kirill from MTS Digital. After I managed to teach the Chromebook to boot from a flash drive, which I talked about in the post "Chromebook: life…
Kiisu — a board compatible with Flipper Zero
It all started when I forgot the key to the gate to the yard and remembered my last year's idea to make something similar to Flipper, but more compact, so that I could…
How to significantly increase the range of WiFi / BT reception using a soldering iron
Or more precisely, using two soldering irons. An unexpectedly simple and effective solution suitable for compact modules with a chip antenna, requiring no additional…
Stairway to Heaven: customizing WLED
There have already been several articles about wled on tekkix, but they usually limited themselves to the standard firmware features - garlands with effects, control…
Extreme optimization of Raspberry Pi boot speed
Some time ago, the SolarCamPi project was created - a solar-powered autonomous camera with Wi-Fi.
