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Here at oomlout, we love meeting up with like-minded people. We also love listening to The Amp Hour, a podcast by Chris Gammel and Dave Jones for anyone with even a passing interest in the electronics industry - from the hobbyist level right through to industrial-grade devices from giant multinational companies. It's no surprise, then, that we're thrilled to be attending a meet-up in London tomorrow evening. Held at The Yorkshire Grey from 6:30PM on Tuesday the 19th of April, the meet-up will be a chance to meet Chris and fellow podcast-catchers in an informal, convivial atmosphere not entirely dissimilar...

We're big fans of Wuthering Bytes, the annual technology and maker festival that takes place in nearby picturesque Hebden Bridge, and this year it's set to be bigger and better than ever with a schedule spreading across a full ten days - three more than last year and seven more than the year prior. The organisers of the event, Andrew Back and Tim Harbour, have put up an initial schedule ahead of the September opening day in order to drum interest for everything from the opening Festival Day on the 2nd of September through to the new LLVM and GNU...

When building a prototype of a device, it's common to use a solderless breadboard into which you can poke the legs of through-hole components for temporary electrical connectivity. Sometimes, though, even this is too fiddly, particularly when dealing with young children. Commercial systems like littleBits and Snap Circuits aim to make things easier for little hands, but if you're looking to build something using less-common components - or are building to a tight budget - you're out of luck for off-the-shelf solutions. Matthew Dalton has a simple solution to the problem in the form of an Instructable for building quick-connect...

The makers at Arduino.cc have spent years addressing the needs of the Arduino community, building a variety of boards boasting ever more features. Until recently, however, wireless communications weren't a major feature in the mainstream line-up - leaving Arduino fans with no choice but to buy third-party designs or expensive add-on shields. The launch of the Genuino 101 brought Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to the official Arduino line-up late last year, as an upgrade from the older Arduino BT's Bluetooth Classic radio, and its follow-up aims to do the same for those needing Wi-Fi connectivity: the Genuino MKR1000. Known as the...

The launch of the Genuino 101 with integrated Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and the Genuino MKR1000 with Wi-Fi connectivity has resulted in an explosion of interest in using Arduinos wirelessly, but there's still one stumbling block: neither are particularly cheap. The problem is exacerbated if, like us, you have a workshop filled with various older models of Arduino and Genuino which lack integrated wireless connectivity - which is why we're pleased to see Embedded Lab running a guide to simple, low-cost wireless communication between Arduinos. Written by founder Raj Bhatt, the guide centres around low-cost amplitude shift keying (ASK) radio...