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  • Thank you E14 surprise delivery - Rising Contributor goodies

    robogary
    robogary
    Thank you E14 for the surprise delivery today Rising Contributor goodies. The E14 pin really adds a touch of class to the ballcap.       
    • 26 May 2022
  • Scientists say the Great Pacific Garbage Patch now thrives with life

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Blue sea dragons, which have armor made of man-o-war prey they hunted, are living in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (Image Credit: Rebecca Helm/Twitter) I've been so worried about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's a monument to environ...
    • 10 May 2022
  • Seeking 2 Judges for the Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Competition

    rscasny
    rscasny
    Hi All! It's 84 degrees her in Chicago and everybody is eating lunch outside. I hope nice weather is happening wherever you live. Now, back to work! I'm writing today because I'd like to get 2 judges for our Experimenting with Current Sen...
    • 10 May 2022
  • This fair? Anti-cheating eye-tracker software activates due to students' sobbing

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Students' sobbing triggered the eye-tracker software. (Image Credit: Glenn Carstens-Peters/Unsplash) Should they really crackdown on cheating? Lockdowns have forced schools to adapt to remote learning, a more challenging experience compared to i...
    • 9 May 2022
  • Simple Transistor Current Sources (and Sinks)

    fmilburn
    fmilburn
    Current sources and sinks have applications in many circuits and there are many ways to make them.  This blog is a brief introduction to single transistor current sources.   Horowitz and Hill cover this material in a more det...
    • 4 May 2022
  • Simple Passive Component V-I Curve Tracer

    fmilburn
    fmilburn
    If you are like me you don't use the XY plot function on your oscilloscope often but it can be handy at times.  I was reviewing videos by W2AEW on YouTube and saw this one where he describes a simple method for viewing c...
    • 1 May 2022
  • Meet element14 "Live" at the Sensors Converge Conference in San Jose, CA, June 27-29, 2022

    rscasny
    rscasny
    Summer is around the corner. I'm hoping for a summer of sunny days and warm weather. What are you planning for this summer? For myself, I'm attending the Sensors Converge Conference in San Jose, CA, June 27-29, 2022. The conference will feature a lot...
    • 29 Apr 2022
  • Earth Day 2022 - The State of Clean Energy

    Catwell
    Catwell
    It’s been difficult to miss news sites, and social media feeds: the planet is in trouble, and we are in need of solutions for our warming world. The latest climate report from the UN’s independent scientific body, the Intergovernmental Pa...
    • 22 Apr 2022
  • The Tail of Two Operating Systems

    colporteur
    colporteur
    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of...
    • 15 Apr 2022
  • A 1970 Power Amplifier - how good can it be !

    A 1970 Power Amplifier - how good can it be !

    michaelkellett
    michaelkellett
    This blog was sparked off (in part) by airbornesurfer’s January blog about renovating his Califone 1430k school record player, /challenges-projects/element14-presents/b/blog/posts/project-califone-renovating-and-rewiring-a-califone-1430k-porta...
    • 9 Apr 2022
  • The 2022 Science Talent Search has concluded with the top ten winners announced

    Catwell
    Catwell
    This image shows the top three winners of the 2022 Science Talent Search, Amber Luo, Christine Ye, and Victor Cai,  from left to right. (Image Credit: Society for Science) Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Society for Science announc...
    • 5 Apr 2022
  • Würth Elektronik Sensor FeatherWing Road Test - video

    dougw
    dougw
    community.element14.com/.../FeatherWingSensors.mp4 The full blog is here: https://community.element14.com/products/roadtest/rv/roadtest_reviews/1578/wrth_elektronik_sens_1
    • 5 Apr 2022
  • Poll Seeking Feedback on an Upcoming Design Challenge on Sensors

    rscasny
    rscasny
    Is it summer yet? I'm a warm-weather person, so summer is my favorite time of year. But it seems like the Spring this year in Chicago has been cold and wet, and moving forward too slowly for my taste. To get everyone excited about the Summer (inc...
    • 31 Mar 2022
  • Experimenting with Op Amps: Open-Loop DC Gain (Again!)

    jc2048
    jc2048
    Another attempt at measuring the open-loop dc gain of an op amp, this time using the 'false summing-junction' method. The idea for this one came from a TI document comparing different approaches to testing op amps[1]. Before doing it for real, with a...
    • 27 Mar 2022
  • KiCad 6 - Populating a PCB using the Interactive HTML BOM Plugin

    fmilburn
    fmilburn
    My friend Adrian recently showed me a plugin for KiCad that makes determining placement of components while populating a PCB easier.  KiCad 6 has a feature that makes adding plugins simple.  Open up KiCad and select the Plugin and...
    • 26 Mar 2022
  • Researchers discover that folk music evolves similarly to gene mutations

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Japanese researchers discover that folk music notes behave similarly to DNA strands. (Image Credit: Alexander Shatov) Got music in your blood?  Researchers at Keio University in Fujisawa, Japan, discovered a direct link between folk music ...
    • 25 Mar 2022
  • Experimenting with Op Amps: Open-Loop Output Resistance

    jc2048
    jc2048
    As I still had the prototype board set up from looking at the open-loop gain, I thought I'd try another quick experiment. This time I'm going to attempt to measure the output resistance. I'll do this by back-driving the output of the DUT [device unde...
    • 19 Mar 2022
  • Congress Passes Omnibus Spending Bill, Setting FY2022 NASA budget at $24 Billion

    Catwell
    Catwell
    NASA’s Artemis project has goals of landing humans back on the moon, but the new budget makes it unlikely it will be happening soon. (Photo by History in HD on Unsplash) I love this. Our government actually doing something useful. This past w...
    • 15 Mar 2022
  • 10 Influential Female Engineers Whose Work You Should Know

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Engineering remains a male-dominated industry, with women making up just 15% of working professional engineers as of 2019, but that is not the whole story of the industry. Despite men disproportionately filling roles, women have made great strides in...
    • 7 Mar 2022
  • Secret Santa Gift - a March Christmas

    ralphjy
    ralphjy
    I just received my Secret Santa present (not quite what was intended) - thanks to redcharly , dychen , and E14. The intended gift was an Arduino Nano 33 BLE, but those were on backorder and the availability date kept slipping - so Dave let me pick so...
    • 4 Mar 2022
  • 10 Black Engineers and Scientists Whose Contributions You Should Know

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Even though access to science and engineering education in the US was incredibly limited until recent history—the first Black graduate of MIT, Robert R. Taylor, graduated in 1892—Black Americans have a significant legacy in the scientific...
    • 28 Feb 2022
  • TEST_BLOG_CODE_BLOCK_LIMIT

    skruglewicz
    skruglewicz
    THIS IS A TEST...........THIS IS A TEST........... THIS IS A TEST........... THIS IS A TEST........... THIS IS A TEST........... THIS IS A TEST........... THIS IS A TEST........... THIS IS A TEST...........A TEST_BLOG to exercise the limits on the...
    • 21 Feb 2022
  • JustEncaseBLOG#5TestingPart2

    skruglewicz
    skruglewicz
    TEST# 2 - Measure the Environment within the Waterproof Enclosure 1554H2GYCL  Description For this Test, I purchased two Grove Sensors from Seeed and used two of sensors from the supplied Grove starter Kit. I also purchased the Arduino MKR...
    • 19 Feb 2022
  • Unique Awards

    dougw
    dougw
    I just received 2 unusual awards, one came in a tube the other in a big box about a cubic foot..... Here is a picture of the Halloween prize and the 2021 e14 physical badge .... in this case a bluebot is holding the badge. (The bluebot and some famou...
    • 18 Feb 2022
  • Technology deployed during the Beijing 2022 Winter Games

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Beijing 2022 features all sorts of technology implementations. (Image Credit: Christian Lue/Unsplash) This year’s winter games has been a lot of fun to watch. On the surface, there doesn’t seem much different happening behind the scenes ...
    • 16 Feb 2022
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