There's always a lot going on in the community and its not always easy to keep track of what's going on. With that in mind, I'm going to try an experiment and try to maintain a weekly content journal to communicate directly with the membe...
I have enough game consoles in the house, they're not all current generation. I have a Wii, Wii-U, XBox 360, Nintendo (3)DS, GBA, Gameboy, SteamLink to my gaming PC, and access to a Playstation 3. A friend of mine offered me a copy of Destiny sin...
Many of us dream of owning heavy machinery. It’s fun to think about how easy it would be to unload your truck after a Costco shopping trip if you just had a forklift. Digging a hole for that koi pond in your backyard would be a snap if you just had a...
Hello e14! I wanted to let everyone know about a feature which, I'm embarrassed to say, I didn't realize existed until our team meeting this morning. You can embed Tweets in your content, or in comments you're leaving!Possibly all of you ...
I can still remember when, more than 4 decades ago, I was used to go and visit my grandmother Vincenza at her place for every holiday. It was never a long stay, just a day trip, as she lived in Nettuno, near Anzio (famous for the landing of the Allie...
This is another exploratory blog relating to bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). This time I'm going to look at saturation. Be aware that I'm not an expert in all this: I'm studying it and you're looking over my shoulder as I experiment and exp...
Happy Lunar New Year! This year ushers in the Year of the Pig for 2019! Now this is a year I can relate to, being born in the Year of the Pig myself, this year welcomes the types of pigs that like to keep their feet to the ground being the ...
This blog grew out of my getting interested in wideband voltage amplifiers as a result of doing the transistor load. Something that's fascinating with all this blogging is that, whatever subject I choose to cover, it naturally seems to lead on to...
This is a follow up post to element14 at CES 2019! by danzima . Thought I would share some more pictures and videos. Plus, I wanted to put everything together just in case someone asks what I did in Vegas! As Dan m...
CES 2019! If you go by their numbers, the 2018 edition was attended by over 180,000 people, 70,000 of those being exhibitors, with more than 4,500 companies exhibiting, yadda yadda yadda. It's massive! At one point I naively thought I'd...
No doubt you've already seen the range of products that we sell at Premier Farnell / element14, and after the company joined with Avnet we are happy to welcome a lot more products available to us and this includes a new line of mainly FPGA based micr...
www.youtube.com/watch Applications are open for the 3rd annual ASU Innovation Open (ASU.io), sponsored by Avnet, bringing together student ventures from across the US, all competing for $100K in unrestricted capital. The ASU.io brings toget...
Maker Faire Hannover was a 3 day event held between the 15th and the 16th Sept 2018 at the Hannover Congress Centrum in Hannover, Germany. The event showcased invention, creativity, resourcefulness, the Maker movement, gaming, fashion, drones, handma...
Python is a very powerful and flexible programming language, enabling engineers to perform complex mathematics analysis, implement Artificial Intelligence solutions and develop a range of other complex engineering solutions. The ability to use Python...
The Ben Heck Team ask how we could inspire STEM learning We're Giving Away Two Ben Heck Hex Game Prototypes! My idea was for a Fizz Buzz Game. It has a couple of big buttons for Fizz and Buzz and a small screen. The game counts up and you ...
Hello everyone! For you that don't know, I help head up the Design Challenges team here at element14 and we are always looking to get community input on how to improve our programs. If you have not heard of our Design Challenges, they are...
In the era of software defined radio the old receivers/scanners the go into oblivion. I would like to remind one of the good portable scanners in short video presentation.www.youtube.com/watch
I just wanted to give a heartfelt thanks to the community members who made this wonderful community possible. Without your support there wouldn't be a community. 500K is a big number, especially for an online community. I've been lu...
This is the proposed satellite that’s going to protect the planet (Photo from NASA) NASA is always on the cutting edge of space exploration and technology. Their latest mission is no different. This time, NASA is looking to protect the Earth fro...
I was approached by Tektronix about their need to obtain professional feedback on some oscilloscopes they are developing. If you are interested, you would be compensated. Here's the type of background they are looking for: If you have any e...
Rocket Lab gets ready to launch The Electron, a rocket made for small payloads; several companies reveal plans to launch ashes into space for the ultimate send off. This rocket can carry payloads weighing 300-500300-500 Km (Image via Rocket Lab...
Arduino HomeAn Open-Source platform to create digital devices and interactive objects that sense and control physical devices.Arduino TutorialsArduino Projects I was able to get a way from my booth at the 2017 Bay Area Maker Faire long enough to...
I went to Maker Faire, not only to help promote areas of the community I work on such as The Ben Heck Show , Arduino , and Project14 , but to also get insight that would help me produce better content for the community. As a content writer; who works...
