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.

  • Switching to diffrent CryptoCurrency

    e14 Contributor
    My original project was to create a rasberry pi that would mine Bitcoins. I started to do alot of reaserach on diffrent CryptoCurrencys out there. I decided to switch to PPCoin. They are a bit easier to mine and i like the idea of having something to...

  • Self Sustaining RasberryPi Bitcoin Mining Rig.

    e14 Contributor
    I had heard about Bitcoins a couple years back and didnt think much of it. Recently in the news i heard about the SilkRoads owner and his recent down fall. Most interesting part of his whole story is that he has a billion dollars in bitcoins stashed ...

  • Just joined

    e14 Contributor
    Well, I just joined this website and so far it seems pretty darn promising.

  • Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) - a brief for electronic engineers

    mistertee
    All electronics engineers involved in product development should have an appreciation of EMC. Many product designs have hit problems due to an inadequate understanding of this. The most recent example of this was the delay to the launch of the Raspbe...

  • DSP - On/Off Control - Flowcode 6

    benmatrix
    Flowcode v6 has new features designed to expose more information to the user in both a useful and meaningful way. Two of these new features are the scope window which is capable of displaying analogue and digital traces over time and the console wind...

  • HTML Text

    e14 Contributor
    Size and color test in divfloat right test in divadd clear floatSize and color test in span with 10px margin-topadd clear floatH1 HeaderH2 HeaderH3 HeaderUnordered 1Unordered 2Unordered 3Ordered 1Ordered 2Ordered 3

  • Vintage Computing Festival Midwest 2013

    fustini
    Happy Friday!  I'm wearing my DEC PDP-inspired design t-shirt from the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest last weekend! http://vcfmw.org/  I was amazed to see a working Apple I at the festival - signed by Woz!  I even got...

  • Timers, compilers and structures

    mlease
    I started getting into the detailed level about low power firmware design. There are many ways firmware can waste power and most of them are things you never even think about.   http://cmicrotek.com/wordpress_159256135/?p=151

  • New book launched - "From Prototype to Product"

    mistertee
    Electronic product development is a specialist field. It requires not only a good understanding of the technology - it demands a thorough knowledge of the whole process of taking an electronic design through the various stages and making it available...

  • Quadrocopter - Testing and Assembly

    benmatrix
    For the next stage of quadrocopter development I wanted to get something off the ground to ensure that when I get the software correct I will be able to put it to use. To do this I brought out my trusty 3D printer and SketchUp software and got design...

  • PiFace - The Digital Unknown

    e14 Contributor
    Look for more at: http://www.bartbania.com/ Just recently I got a PiFace Digital from Farnell. PiFace Digital is an interesting Raspberry Pi add-on board.It features 8 digital inputs, and 8 open collector outputs, as well as 2 relays (NOTE: thou...

  • The i.mx6 based Quad core Utilite pro computer gets benchmarked

    e14 Contributor
    I received my Utilite pro (with Ubuntu 12.04) some days ago and looked for some easy benchmarking tools.After some searching I found the right tools and compared the Raspberry Pi and the Utilite. http://bitkistl.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/the-utilit...

  • More low power firmware concepts

    mlease
    This week I'm continuing with some of low power firmware concepts. It may seem counterintuitive but some of the concepts I've used for low power firmware are the same things I did for the firmware on high performance disk controllers. To a large degr...

  • Looking for professionals to help me complete Cuptoopia Web Application Platform

    e14 Contributor
    If you know Ruby On Rails or Developers or database developer. I  Need to create the ability to allow people to collaborate to create digital products within the web application like apps, games, eBooks, eMagazines, eNewspapers, movies, TV Shows...

  • Raspberry Pi rack road test as I build !!

    dwinhold
    This is the start of my road test. Testing the pirack I felt would be interesting enough with just using it with the expansion boards. I proposed going further, a lot further with this. This is why the blog, due to the size and complexity of my propo...

  • Flowcode v6 MPU-6050 Accelerometer and Gyro

    benmatrix
    One of the great aspects of Flowcode v6 is the ability to use the simulation to help create and debug real world devices. I am in the process of building a Quadrocopter using Flowcode v6 and will release details here as I make progress. When sta...

  • Easy PIC Fusion v7 Development Board

    waelect
    This review is now available and updated on the Road test group - http://www.element14.com/community/roadTestReviews/1553Review1 - IntroductionThis review is for the EasyPIC Fusion v7 evaluation board along with Mikro Electronika’s other products has...

  • Low power firmware design

    mlease
    I'm starting a series of posts on the blog about low power firmware design. For many products the firmware will determine if the power consumption or battery life goals are met yet firmware is often not even discussed in articles on low power design....

  • BART

    e14 Contributor
    BART = Booster Airborne Recording Technology 

  • MORT

    e14 Contributor
    MORT = Miniature Onboard Recording Technology

  • portable desktop pc hack pt1

    msalko
    I eventualy brought this pc to my school to test it out in better enviroment. But on my way to school i figured out that this hack needs improvements. (Seriously everyone has been looking at me like im carring dirty bomb, or something) So i came...

  • portable desktop pc hack

    msalko
    there is slight chance that you know about my portable desktop pc hack.but if not it looked like this:        NEVER ATTEMPT TO USE YOUR POWER SOURCE WITH INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS (INTERNAL POWER SWITCH) what...

  • Stepper Motor Frustration

    gypo
    I need to be able to drive a few stepper motors moving in microstep, each motor will have a 1kg shape attaced directly to its rotor.  The stepper motor I have to use is the Astrosyn MY6403-02N (24V, 1.5A, Step 1.8 degree) The reason for mic...

  • Low power design resource

    mlease
    Last month I started a Low Power Design blog as a forum for engineers to exchange their experiences with battery-power and low-power design. Nearly all the information on the Internet about low-power design is hardware oriented yet firmware will ofte...

  • 7c - Irrigation Alerts

    ge0rgej
       The following Python script will be executed when instructed in our Garden_Irrigation1 file that we created in Section 6. As I want to be alerted -  1) when the irrigation pump starts and -  2) when the pump stops we ...