A pal of [Kyle’s] was regularly leaving his sprinkler on for too long. He also had forgotten to turn the water off while topping off his pool a couple of times, an embarrassing and wasteful situation.

Sure, countless microcontroller development boards featuring a USB connection have made it to the Projects and Tutorials pages of Electroschematics. Although these days it really is easy to build your ...

It’s a constant of writing for Hackaday, that whenever a project appears using a 555 timer, someone will say “You could have used a microcontroller to do that!”. It’s something that [Shranav ...