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Heat-shrink labels all the way. They never fade or fall off. But you may not be able to use them if the cables already have connectors at either end. You can get nice little labelling machines to w …

Well, this is going to be tricky, and probably expensive. Your main problem is a dire lack of space. I assume you want to get the servos inside that central pole on the ground. But why do you need to …

My advice would be to add some simply circuitry to make the switch. This is a common problem that needs to be solved in high reliability systems where you have multiple power supplies that must be ORe …

I'll have to vote for the Cypress PSoC3. I've been using PICs for about 10 years (PIC16, PIC18, dsPIC and PIC32). They do kind of drive me crazy with their irritating peripheral configuration, and con …

You are designing a mobile robot. Forget about Asimov, the real three laws of mobile robotics are: Everything in it goes wrong all the time. There's a battery in the way. It broke down. Whatever e …

The beautiful Nixie tube clock, designed by Yan Zeyuan.

Another answer: Stop using interrupts. People jump to use interrupts too easily. Personally, I rarely use them because they actually waste a lot of time, as you are discovering. It's often possible …

Easy: Use a PSoC5 Microcontroller. You have all the ease of use of a microcontroller, plus it contains a CPLD, so you can write your own hardware peripherals in Verilog. Just write your serial data …