Flight controller unit evaluation board for drones
The STEVAL-FCU001V1 board from ST is designed to support quadcopter drone designers with the latest solutions for motor control, sensors and and microcontroller. A complete sample FW project allows...
View ArticleHands-on with the PocketBeagle
Ken Shirriff shares his experience with a low-cost, compact Linux computer PocketBeagle: The PocketBeagle is a tiny but powerful inexpensive key-fob-sized open source Linux computer. It has 44 digital...
View ArticleMini DC/DC converters integrate coil
Torex Semiconductor’s XCL223 and XCL224 series of step-down converters pack an inductor and control IC in a single 2.25×1.5×0.75-mm package, simplifying board layout. Despite their miniaturization and...
View ArticlePerovskite solar cells stabilized at 19% efficiency
image: ibnservice.com Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland have found that adding large organic compounds called guanidinium (CH6N3+) into methylammonium lead iodide perovskite solar cells can provide...
View ArticleIn-display fingerprint sensors to be integrated under glass cover
Synaptics has announced the mass production of its Clear ID FS9500 family of optical in-display fingerprint sensors, designed for smartphones with infinity displays. By Julien Happich @...
View Article512Gbyte embedded universal flash memory in production
Samsung Electronics has begun mass production of what the company claims to be the industry’s first 512-gigabyte (GB) embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) solution for use in next-generation mobile...
View ArticleLT8364 current mode step-up regulator has 2.8V – 60V input range
The LT8364 current mode, 2MHz step-up DC/DC converter has an internal 4A, 60V switch. [via] It operates from an input voltage range of 2.8V to 60V, and is suitable for applications with input sources...
View ArticleRoomSense Board offers multiple sensors including PIR motion detection
RoomSense Board is an Occupancy and Air Sensor. It can detect movement and room conditions and connect over WiFi with a passive IR occupancy sensor, barometer, temperature and humidity sensors, and...
View ArticleNanoPi NEO Core Board for 8$
The NanoPi NEO Core (abbreviated as “NEO Core”) is an alternative NanoPi NEO that works like a CPU board with male pin-headers. It has the same form factor as the NanoPi NEO and same pin descriptions....
View ArticleTiny UHF Tracker Transmitter
TomTechTod @ instructables.com writes: This is a little circuit that could be used to track an object up to 400m. It is essentially an SAW stabilized OOK modulated RF transmitter. The modulation is...
View ArticleASUS Tinker Board Review
ASUS Tinker Board is a Versatile single board computer Designed for computing hobbyists, the Asus Tinker Board is a single board computer that can do everything you’d expect from a desktop computer,...
View ArticleESP8266 WiFi Analyzer
This instrucatables show how to make an ESP8266 version WiFi Analyzer clone. WiFi Analyzer is a handy app in Android, it help to visualize the WiFi signal information around you. It is very useful for...
View ArticleThe top 10 crystal oscillators from SnapEDA
Elizabeth Bustamante @ snapeda.com lists the top 10 crystal oscillators used today. She writes: A crystal oscillator is an electronic circuit that generates an electrical signal with a very precise...
View ArticleThe “Neuropixels” probe records brain signals
After $5.5 millions collaboration and a lot of work during the past four years of engineers at Imec, the next-generation electrodes called Neuropixels probe were designed to record hundreds of...
View ArticleButterfly IQ – Ultrasound Anywhere, Anytime
Ultrasound, also known as sonography, is a medical procedure which uses sound waves to get images from inside the body. It is used to help guide biopsies, diagnose causes of pain, examine a baby in...
View ArticleImitation Fireplace Using Cool Mist and LEDs
A convincing artificial fire effect for the holiday season, using NeoPixel LEDs, an Arduino UNO, and a cool mist module. The instructions for this are actually pretty simple, basically you just need...
View ArticleDS18B20 Sensor Based Thermometer with Nokia 5110 LCD display
Hi guys welcome to this tutorial. Today we will be building a simple temperature monitor using the DS18B20 sensor with a Nokia 5110 LCD Display and an Arduino mega. The DS18B20 digital temperature...
View ArticleChanging Hospital Waiting Rooms with RFID Technology
Engineers at Cornell university have created a new system for measuring vitals, which could revolutionize hospital experience for everybody. Usually, getting sick means having to go to the hospital...
View ArticleESP8266 MAX7219 Dot Matrix Display
A MAX7219 driven Display, controlled by an ESP8266 SoC and MQTT This project describes how to connect a MAX7219 to an ESP8266 Chip and let it act as a MQTT client. Its basically my ninHOME Node...
View ArticleApertus AXIOM Professional Digital Cinema Camera is open source
Apertus AXIOM Beta is a professional digital cinema camera built around free open source software and hardware. AXIOM Beta is the latest version powered by MicroZed development board based on Xilinx...
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