USB Type-C, or simply USB-C, is an interesting beast. On the one hand, the fact that it’s reversible is amazing when compared to its predecessors, and USB-C’s potential data tran…

Raspberry Pi single-board computers (SBCs) are excellent tools, but they are, literally, single boards. Unlike their desktop or laptop cousins, there’s nothing to protect their fragile compon…

Raspberry Pi Zeros have been around for a few years now, and are capable of powering some incredible projects due to a diminutive size combined with incredible processing power. It’s no surpr…

Yes, you read that headline correctly, the 555 Micro kit listed here doesn’t allow you to make a particular gadget using a 555 timer, but instead allows you to make one out of discrete compon…

We’ve all been there; you need a certain resistor for testing, but just don’t have it (or you simply can’t find it in your jumble of parts). While you could venture out to a local…

I sometimes think stepper motors are the heart of the hardware maker movement. They occupy many positions in robots and other mechanical assemblies that we build. This Mini Stepper Linear Sliding A…

Do you remember having walkie talkies as a child? The fun of communicating between friends from a distance (a poultry 20 meters with the ones I remember) was incomparable but we’ve moved on s…

The Raspberry pi is an incredibly versatile piece of kit – but with so many exposed parts, it is difficult to argue that it is bombproof. Look after your beloved machine and take your portabl…

We expect modern devices to have smart connectivity as standard now, linking phones to household devices, LED lights and even sound systems, but in the past things were not so simple! This Hifi Blu…

The Game Boy has remained popular among console modders and hackers for many reasons. First, its simple Z80-based processor is easy to work with. The entire instruction set can be memorized by a si…

On your latest project you decided to use an Arduino breakout board, which seemed like a good choice at the time. A few lines of code, and your LEDs were happily blinking away. Of course your were …

As someone who was a huge fan of the Pebble e-paper smartwatches, I have been waiting for a similar product to come along since they were sadly dismantled by FitBit in December of 2016. So I was si…

My name is Paul and I'm from Sydney, AU. I'm a known recognized developer at XDA (android community). Some of my more stand out projects…

Let your musical creativity flow with this genre-defying drum synthesiser! This fantastic device rides the boundaries between a sequencer, a synthesiser, and a drum machine – doing awesome ge…

Some of the most beautiful items on Tindie are developed solely as a personal project that the creator then decides to sell online. These SPI display boards are such a product and they are utterly …

I love playing with robotics — what hacker doesn’t? Servos, stepper motors, linear actuators, pistons… there are so many ways to move things around. It’s uncommon to see a m…

MMXX T-APE is a "granular bytebeat" pocket synthesizer with 10 capacitive keys, two encoders, two light sensors and a headphones output.

Retro computing hardware is great for playing older games, and perhaps running a useful application or two. However, one might argue that the most interesting use of such a device in its day was to…

I kind of fell into electronics later than many and that’s led me to mainly be a digital type. Show me some 4000-series CMOS chips and I’m on reasonably familiar ground. It often embarr…

USB C is here to stay and if you need to top off a LiPo cell, a charger doesn’t come much smaller than this! The Ant USB battery charger by Beast Devices is a tiny device barely larger than t…

At first glance you might think that this was a just another USB-C breakout board but it is in fact a variable USB C power supply you can reprogram with light! This tiny board works to make USB C p…

As makers, we’re always reaching for that next grand idea – whether that’s an excellent remote-controlled car, a tuneful analog synth, or a robot automated garden! Getting fully i…

We love all of the vibrant communities out in the wild still hacking older hardware platforms. There’s no better example community than those working with Nintendo Gameboys! This PCB breakout…

Whether you’re creating musical instruments, drone cameras, or home automation projects – one common aim is to make a circuit smaller, neater, or cheaper. Makers often use Arduino becau…

E-ink display technology has slowly come down in price since its introduction to the market in the early 2000s. For a long time, only manufacturers of ebook readers could buy enough of them in bulk…

A WiFi connection in today’s modern age is right beneath things like food, water, and air in terms of necessity. Many of our devices are constantly seeking out wireless connections. Besides a…

Seller Blue Neon Tavern has a lot of computers in his basement, some of which aren’t connected to his network. Rather than having to walk down there every time he’d like to turn a parti…

A RaspberryPi PICO RP2040 combined with a Lattice ICE40 Ultra Plus 5K FPGA, PMOD interfaces, programmable with open source toolchains.

Retro or vintage computer computers and their clones or derivatives are commonly spotted on Tindie but this replica of a PDP-11 is a particularly gorgeous example! The PiDP-11 is a scale model of t…

Rabbit-Labs ESP32 s3 v2 flipper zero board

If you like to play old-school video games, getting out an emulator once in a while may scratch that itch. For true retro fans, however, it’s hard to beat gaming on a dedicated console, such …

We unashamedly love USB-C and it’s fabulous to see all manner of USB-C projects across the Tindieverse. In a ground-up project though, it can sometimes be a little tricky to integrate USB-C, …

Tiny macropads can be incredibly useful but at first glance, I wondered what I could use the Anavi Knob 1 for. Later the same day I was editing numerous video clips and found myself wanting a turni…