As you may have noticed, I’ve been working with an STM32 ARM CPU using Mbed. There was a time when Mbed was pretty simple, but a lot has changed since it has morphed into Mbed OS. Unfortunately, that ...

While there is a time and place for wirelessly controlled devices, sometimes you want something you can just reach out and ...

The ESP32 keeps finding new jobs in my house.

An interesting trend in industrial motion control has been the replacement of self-contained encoders (rotation sensors with their own housing, bearings and shaft) with modular or “kit” encoders.

Jennifer Jacobs USMA 1993 (Physics), UNM PhD (Nuclear Engineering), former White House fellow, Co-Founder & CEO of Connect Our Kids, presented a program at a recent Rotary Club of Springfield meeting, ...

So you’ve connected a device to your PC via a USB port — but Windows doesn’t recognize it. What now? Before you assume the product (or your PC port) is broken, there are several USB troubleshooting ...

Rituals seem to be declining in modern life. Finding ways to gather together meaningfully can help us combat loneliness, pain, and division. Decades of research suggest that the quality of our social ...

When fields crust over and corn doesn’t emerge stress can lead to a state of paralysis in decision making. “A lot of times when farmers are thinking about rotary hoeing when they should have done it ...

June 26, 2026 • We explore how the pursuit of happiness has evolved in America with constitutional law scholar Jeffrey Rosen and cognitive scientist Laurie Santos.