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  • Weekly Content Journal: 4th Week of September

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    Greetings members, Last week of September so thought I'd do a quick recap of what's happening. Currently,  I'm planning on setting up a holiday special event similar to last year's  Merry Boxes & LEDs  and am coordinating...
    • 1 Oct 2019
  • Spooky Scary Skeletons! Join in this Halloween

    cstanton
    cstanton
    Creating a project for Halloween - Projects and Videos ? Join in with the competition this October on the element14 Community as we're giving away a 3D printer for your project! Comment on someone's blog post in the Halloween space and y...
    • 1 Oct 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: 3rd Week of September!

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    Greetings Members! Welcome to another addition to the weekly content journal! What does a community mean to you? It's a question we've been talking about a lot on the community. Everyone seems to have their own definition of what an online ...
    • 19 Sep 2019
  • Farnell Global IoT Survey 2019

    kpapaioannou
    kpapaioannou
    Check out the latest survey: Farnell Global IoT Survey and Competition 2020  Calling all IoT solution design engineers and hobbyists!Please fill in this survey, which is open from 18th September to 4th December 2019.  We are looking to find...
    • 19 Sep 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: 2nd Week of September!

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    Welcome back for another edition of the Weekly Content Journal! Yesterday, I went on a field trip for an On24 Workshop on how to basically make Webinars not boring.   On my way out I had some specific questions that related to how we c...
    • 13 Sep 2019
  • The i.MX RT Series: Designing with Crossover Processors

    rscasny
    rscasny
    Crossover processors are built using applications processors chassis, delivering a high level of integration, high speed peripherals, enhanced security, and engines for enhanced user experience (for example, 2D/3D graphics); but also utilizing a low-...
    • 11 Sep 2019
  • How Will it Play Out with 5G Chipsets?

    rscasny
    rscasny
    Verizon just rolled out 5G service in Chicago, most notably at Soldier Field, the home of the Chicago Bears.  But this appears to be just the beginning of 5G firsts. There are high expectations that 5G-enabled smartphones with high-speed interne...
    • 9 Sep 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: 1st Week of September!

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    Greetings best community members in the galaxy, Here in the US, labor day is over which means that fall has officially begun. It gave us time to ponder the really big questions such as whether or not emperor Palpatine perished after Darth Vader ...
    • 5 Sep 2019
  • How will GaN change the world of electronics design in the next decade?

    rscasny
    rscasny
    Silicon has been the kingpin of the semiconductor industry for a long time. And it should be: it has an ideal crystal structure for use as a semiconductor, But in today's world where ultra-low power and an extremely small package are two important fa...
    • 29 Aug 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: Last Week of August 2019!

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    Greetings Best Community Members in the Galaxy! It was a bank holiday in the UK last week, here in the States we have labor day coming up this Monday.  I've decided to take a couple of days to visit family so I will be gone from Friday till...
    • 28 Aug 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: 4th Week of August 2019

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    Greetings Best Community Members in the Galaxy! Here's this week's rundown on some of the exciting activities going on in and around the community. Remote Monitoring & Control Winners Announcement! This one was really fun and inspi...
    • 22 Aug 2019
  • Experimenting with MOSFETS: Threshold Voltage

    jc2048
    jc2048
     Previous blogs: Experimenting with MOSFETS: Total Gate Charge Experimenting with MOSFETs: Transfer Characteristic  Introduction More experimenting with MOSFETs. In the last blog I looked at the transfer characteristics but it was...
    • 15 Aug 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: 3rd Week of August 2019

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    Greetings Best Community Members in the Galaxy! Here's this week's rundown on some of the exciting activities going on in and around the community. Community Member Judging for Remote Monitoring & Control There were a lot of exciti...
    • 15 Aug 2019
  • Experimenting with MOSFETs: Transfer Characteristic

    jc2048
    jc2048
    This is a short follow-up to Experimenting with MOSFETS: Total Gate Charge where I looked at 'total gate charge' for an IRF730, an n-channel power MOSFET. Since I still had the test board wired up, I thought it might be interesting to see if co...
    • 12 Aug 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: Archive Index

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    A weekly zine that covers the larger community but focuses on member oriented content throughout the community.   As there is a lot of activity happening on the community we will start with the members and move to other areas of interest to...
    • 8 Aug 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: 2nd Week of August 2019

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    Greetings best community members in the galaxy! Took a couple of days off last week so it didn't make sense to do a journal entry.  Now having been refreshed,  I am ready to commence with another edition of the weekly content journal.&...
    • 7 Aug 2019
  • Experimenting with MOSFETS: Total Gate Charge

    jc2048
    jc2048
    Introduction More experimenting, this time with MOSFETs. If you've ever designed with a MOSFET, I'm sure you've seen the kind of curves that are usually present in the datasheet showing the relationship between the total gate charge and the...
    • 2 Aug 2019
  • Desoldering Tip When Nothing is Working For You

    Sean_Miller
    Sean_Miller
    This blog is written to help me remember this trick.  I'm sure its actually a common approach, but it just wasn't an approach I've bumped into.Original issue:  PS4 HDMI Port Failure The HDMI port of my son's 5 year old PS4 had a couple...
    • 22 Jul 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: 4th Week of July 2019

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    This is the third entry in the weekly content journal that I am experimenting with.  The reason for this experiment is to communicate directly with the members on what I've been working on this past week in the community, mainly Project14 and Ar...
    • 22 Jul 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: 3rd Week of July 2019

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    This is the second entry in the weekly content journal that I am experimenting with.  The reason for this experiment is to communicate directly with the members on what I've been working on this past week in the community, mainly Project14 and A...
    • 18 Jul 2019
  • Weekly Content Journal: 2nd Week of July 2019

    tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad
    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...
    • 9 Jul 2019
  • How not to repair a Playstation 4 - The Risks of Second Hand Electronics

    cstanton
    cstanton
    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...
    • 1 Jul 2019
  • Heavy Home Machinery: The Crawl Space Forklift

    coward.cameron
    coward.cameron
    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...
    • 31 May 2019
  • Make an Example of Hanhaa's ParceLive - How else can it be used?

    cstanton
    cstanton
    Hanhaa want you to put their hardware through a real-world use case - for free! I've written before about Symbisa Brings Physical IoT Sensing and Tracking to the Office , SymbisaSymbisa being the hardware at the heart of the ParceLive system by ...
    • 31 May 2019
  • Public Service Announcement: You Can Embed Tweets!

    danzima
    danzima
    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 ...
    • 30 Apr 2019
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