Most Arduino tutorials teach you to blink an LED and stop there. The jump from "it works on my desk" to "it ran for 6 months without crashing" is where most hobby projects die. Here are eight habits that get you across that gap - most of them I learn...

!State of Maker Projects - May 2026https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/z4d8axqnmvqwzi8cmvya.jpeg We pulled the numbers on 662 maker projects from 367 makers over the last three months. A few of the results genuinely surprised u...

I'm not an electrical engineer. But I kept wanting to build smart devices - a mosquito trap for the garden, a nightlight my kid controls with claps, a smart dog collar. Every time, I'd hit the same wall: which components are compatible? What pins do...