Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

Modern smartphones use proximity sensors for much more than just turning off screens during calls. These advanced sensors, powered by IR emitters and receivers, detect nearby objects like your ...

CodeRabbit’ s AI code reviews have been rapidly adopted by customers including The Linux Foundation, Groupon, Chegg, Trivago, and many more. Redpoint Ventures, a top-tier venture capital firm ...

InfraRed Report Shows Cloud Infrastructure Powers Virtually All Software CodeRabbit, the most advanced AI code review platform, today announced its inclusion on the Redpoint InfraRed 100.

One thing the Arduino ecosystem is rarely praised for is its speed. That’s where [Playduino] comes in, with his video (embedded below) that promises to make everyone’s favourite ...

A new software tool enables quicker integration of infrared sensors by optimizing product design’s evaluation, development, testing, and validation phases. More specifically, the tool streamlines ...

Build a Speed Sensor using Arduino with IR speed sensors to accurately measure the speed of moving objects. This tutorial covers circuit design, sensor calibration, speed calculations, and optimized ...

35% better infrared sensor to boost VR headsets, self-driving cars and more Most infrared photodiodes are made of InGaAs, a material that is neither CMOS compatible nor good for the environment.

Arduino based Fire Alarm – Circuit and Working Fig. 2 presents the circuit diagram for the fire alarm using a flame sensor and Arduino Nano. The system is powered by a step-down transformer (X1), a ...

After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece of code borrowed from the web that I tweaked and adapted. The microcontroller-based concept was chosen because I wanted to scale ...