Legacy Personal Blogs

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This blog contains the legacy personal blog posts of our members, other than our Top Members whose content has been migrated into individual blogs in this area. Our new platform does not have personal blogs so this is how we have preserved the personal blog posts of our members from the Jive platform. No new posts will be permitted in this blog. Instead, if you wish to create blog content, please post it in the blog in the most appropriate topic area.

A Rediscovered Toy Tank

dubbie

Over the last few years I have been emptying my loft, boarding it and adding extra insulation in the hope that this would make my house warmer. I think it has helped but to be honest I think new carpets (stops draughts through the floorboards) and ne...
- 2 Jul 2020
First small steps into building a LoraWan platform

robbarter

This is my 1st post here and as an added caveat.....I'm a software engineer not a trained electronics engineer (just lining up the excuses in advance!). My day job has been varied including being a PM in an Investment Bank but thankfully no...
- 30 Jun 2020
Pynq OCR frustration

Fred27

I've been spending a while on what I think is going to be my Pynq embedded vision project. I say I think it will be because I'm having a frustratingly difficult time of it. it's not the FPGA stuff. That's difficult but I'm getting...
- 26 Jun 2020
Soldering Supercut: The RC2014 (Long Play)

airbornesurfer

For those of y'all that enjoy more soldering and synthwave, here's over an hour of real-time soldering that maxolmsted & I compressed to build element14 presents episode 454. Presented without commentary for your relaxing pleasure so sit ...
- 23 Jun 2020
PYNQ-Z2 Workshop - AXI GPIO

beacon_dave

Continuing on from the previous PYNQ-Z2 Workshop blogs, this blog continues to investigate the topics covered in the Element 14 PYNQ-Z2 Workshop series led by Adam Taylor, where we took an introductory look at the PYNQ-Z2 development board produced b...
- 15 Jun 2020
JCRobot

jaygolden

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- 12 Jun 2020
Alps Alpine Humidity Sensors

alpselectric

Alps Alpine has a strong reputation for designing and manufaturing high quality humidity sensors for electronics. We are here to introduce the sensing principles and features of our humidity sensors. Principles of Alps Alpine Humidit...
- 10 Jun 2020
Role of the Internet of Things in the Industrial Revolution

naticw

The landscape of manufacturing is ever shifting. Long gone are the days of calm waters in this vertical when every task was handled manually by a human worker. As soon as we invented machines, the manufacturing processes started changing. Today, we ...
- 9 Jun 2020
PYNQ-Z2 Workshop - PS GPIO

beacon_dave

Continuing on from the previous PYNQ-Z2 Workshop blogs, this blog continues to investigate the topics covered in the Element 14 PYNQ-Z2 Workshop series led by Adam Taylor, where we took an introductory look at the PYNQ-Z2 development board produced b...
- 8 Jun 2020
Copy form Fighting Germs: EMDR tappers with Arduino (to reduce stress and anxiety)

ilvyanyatka

My project is EMDR tappers made with Arduino UNO. It falls under the category Build Projects to Help You (and others) Cope! EMDR is used by psychotherapists in the office setting to reduce patients’ stress and anxiety. And now due ...
- 8 Jun 2020
Copy from #badass women makers entry - Night Safety vest

ilvyanyatka

Night Safety vest using EL wire and Arduino UNO with brightness and blinking frequency control Attachments:community.element14.com/.../NightSafetyVestv5.mp4 community.element14.com/.../2knobs_5F00_blink_5F00_frequency_5F00_brightness_5F00_elwire.txt.z...
- 8 Jun 2020
Driver Lib :- 2.9" EPD Display with Azure Sphere

gsgill112

Hello Everyone,Just wanted to share a small project I have been working on. A Library for Interfacing a generic E-Paper Display with Microsoft Azure Sphere device on Avnet Azure Sphere Starter Kit The project implements a Standard Interface abst...
- 1 Jun 2020
PYNQ Workshop 2 - Creating IP for use with PYNQ

Fred27

The second in the PYNQ Z2 work shop series was much more involved that the first. In the first we concentrated on using PYNQ, but in the second we fired up Vivado to actually build an overlay to call from PYNQ. I can imagine that it might be quite da...
- 1 Jun 2020
PYNQ-Z2 Workshop - Session 1 blog 2

beacon_dave

Continuing on from the previous PYNQ-Z2 Workshop - Session 1 blog, this blog continues to investigate the topics covered in the Element 14 workshop session PYNQ-Z2 Workshop: Getting Started with PYNQ led by Adam Taylor, where we took an introdu...
- 28 May 2020
PYNQ Z2: Getting Up and Running - Tea Storm

yuricts

Tea Storm Get up! Concepts AXI and AXI Interconnect HLS Overlays Get Running! Fun part Create your own Test Pattern Generator Get it out over HDMI Output Tip Of course you can animate that... Tea Storm, I can do that... sort o...
- 28 May 2020
AUTOMATIC WATER/SANITIZER DISPENSING BALL

rajesh-mr.x

Fighting GermsEnter Your Project for a Chance to Win a Thermal Imaging Camera, Germicidal UV Lamp, and a Shopping Cart with Matching Charity Donation!Submit an Entry Submit an Entry Back to homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll...
- 28 May 2020
Instrument Control Board - Component Selection

Andrew J

This is part of my Instrument Control Board project in which I describe the choice of DAC, ADC and Op Amp.Component SelectionNo great science behind many of the components selected - mainly "do they do what I want?" and "price vs simil...
- 26 May 2020
Creating an Instrument Control Board

Andrew J

Introductionjancumps, jc2048 and peteroakes are building an electronic load with what they call a Booster Pack control board to front end. I've found it really interesting to look at what is being done and decided I wanted to have a go at somet...
- 26 May 2020
A Pycom FiPy LoRaWAN Sensor node w/ Micropython

oksbwn

This video is around the FiPy module from Pycom which comes with ESP32 controller and supports 5 network communication protocol support on a single board. The protocols include LoRa/Sigfox/LTE CAT M1/Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. There are radios available fo...
- 25 May 2020
ZX62 Series: Micro yet Reliable

t.adegoke

The ZX62 series is a micro yet reliable connector complying with the USB 2.0 electrical and environment standard requirements. Key Features Number of contacts: 5Pitch: 0.65 mm Locking mechanism: LatchRated voltage: AC 30 VOperatin...
- 22 May 2020
Charactersitics of a Small Buck-Boost Convertor

dubbie

For my mobile robots I have traditionally used AA or AA batteries as power sources, which is fine but does mean that there is a minimum size of chassis that is needed and that the motors need to be more powerful in order to move the heavy batteries a...
- 22 May 2020
PYNQ-Z2 Workshop - session 2

beacon_dave

Continuing on from the first workshop in the series, this Element 14 workshop sessionPYNQ-Z2 Workshop: Getting Up and Running with PYNQbuilds upon what was previously learnt about working with the PYNQ framework on the Tul Corporation PYNQ-Z2 develop...
- 21 May 2020
Diodos

ojed81

Los diodos son semiconductores que se utilizan como un interruptor mecánico para el paso de corriente eléctrica, pero estos lo hacen en una sola dirección. Para provocar que el diodo pueda convertirse en un conductor se necesita un voltaje en sus ter...
- 20 May 2020
My tryst with the PYNQ Z2 development kit

moi8765

The Pynq Z2 board based on a Xilinx FPGA and aims to reduce development time on these processing beasts. SoC-based boards are gaining more and more popularity. And this is not surprising, because such a combination provides truly amazing opportunitie...
- 19 May 2020
Excelsa

mastermx72

Vehículo independiente en energía y decisiones para hacer limpieza con una lámpara UV. Auto móvil con brazo robot, sensores súper sónicos, sistema de energía solar y programa de inteligencia artificial .
- 18 May 2020