You can use a microcontroller to build a clock. After all, a clock is just something that counts the passage of time. The only problem is that microcontrollers can’t track time very accurately. They ...

In September, Amazon took the wraps off the Echo Wall Clock, a seemingly basic analog clock with the ability to pair with an Echo device. In addition to its traditional appearance, the Echo Wall Clock ...

Amazon dropped the price for the Echo Wall Clock, the extremely helpful visible countdown display for the Alexa timer Amazon Alexa’s voice-controlled timer is the most useful out-of-the-box feature of ...

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Despite an increasingly digital world, old fashioned analog clocks — the kinds with moving hands — can still be found in most American households in 2021, if not in great numbers. Seven in 10 ...

The Alexa-powered smart speaker is the more interesting of the two, even though it wasn't officially announced. It's called, well, the Citizen Smart Speaker. It kind of looks like a slightly fancier ...

My sister can’t read an analog clock. She’s 10 years younger than I am. No doubt that skill is disappearing from the populace, along with an avalanche of others: driving a stick shift, writing by hand ...

The bipolar NE555 timer IC is widely used in inductorless dc-dc converters, most frequently in doubling and inverting converters. However, another very popular IC, the LM386 audio amplifier, may be a ...