Now suppose your latest self-quarantine project needs a rotary shaft encoder ... go all MacGyver on an old printer and pull out a stepper motor. How does a stepper motor turn into an encoder?

There are a lot of fun projects you can do with stepper motors salvaged from old printers or disk drives. However, it isn’t always clear how to connect to some strange motor with no markings or ...

Tamerlan has created a Raspberry Pi-powered chess board that automatically moves pieces and has programmed it to be an opponent you can play against.