In this video I'll be showing you how you can control the contrast and the back light brightness of a 1602 LCD display with just the Arduino. The contrast is typically adjusted with a variable ...

LiDAR sensors once cost $50,000. Now they’re just a few hundred dollars, pushing automakers like Rivian and Ford to adopt the tech for safer, smarter cars. China slashed LiDAR costs from $50,000 to a ...

The Silicon Valley-based LiDAR manufacturer Seyond went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 10th, 2025, potentially signalling coming changes to significant portions of the robotics ...

Robotics companies face a vendor proliferation problem that drains engineering resources and complicates production timelines. Building an autonomous vehicle typically requires sourcing short-range ...

In a recent study, researchers from China have developed a chip-scale LiDAR system that mimics the human eye's foveation by dynamically concentrating high-resolution sensing on regions of interest ...

Full vehicle autonomy has been about two years away for a decade or more, but at CES 2026—as happened at its past umpteen predecessors—we got a preview of promising new technologies that claim they’ll ...

Roborock has announced three new robot lawn mowers, including RockMow X1, X1 LiDAR, and RockNeo Q1. The RockMow X1 and X1 LiDAR offer upgrades to last year’s model with better off-roading capabilities ...

Chinese lidar-maker Hesai announced plans on Monday to double its production capacity from 2 million units to 4 million units this year, as it looks to corner the global market for the laser-based ...

Rivian R2 launch is just months away. The automaker has confirmed that while R2 will eventually get lidar, its earliest units will launch without the hardware. Now, Rivian tells InsideEVs that a ...

Electric truck and SUV maker Rivian opened the doors of its Palo Alto, California, headquarters this week for its Autonomy & AI event, giving us a front-row look at the company’s next-generation ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...