We really love when hacks of previous hacks show up in the tip line. It shows how the hardware hacking community can be a feedback loop, where one hack begets the next, and so on until great things ...

There are times when you don’t need much processing power for your project but you do need a lot of I/O pins. It often doesn’t make economic sense to choose a larger microcontroller just to get extra ...

Intersil unfold an HD/SD DVR Video Port Expander, the TW2828. The device is a display and recording MUX chip. TW2828 Digital Input Ports support input resizing, cutting and cropping and even Channel ...

San Jose, Calif.—Cypress Semiconductor Corp.'s I²C port expanders store all user settings in non-volatile memory, eliminating the need to reconfigure the device after each power-up. The CY8C9520 has ...