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.

  • Is electronics an "Art"?

    YT2095
    A stinking wet and windy day outside, making me gratefull that my pastimes are all indoor activities!I`d just built a 7 segment x 4 plugin board for prototyping quickness, and hooked that up to a newly programmed PIC16C54 (my 1s`t ever OTP!) and need...

  • Explore with element14 on Google Plus

    patkelly
    We have just set up a page on Google Plus to showcase the best innovations in electronics from around the globe. If you have a G+ account come and join us to share the knowledge, if you don't you can join with any google account. Take a look https://...

  • Arduino heart rate data logger

    fustini
    Howdy, I've finally placed the Polar chest strap receiver chip and Open Heart LED matrix on the Adafruit data logger shield:Quick video while I'm sitting at rest: www.youtube.com/watch The Adafruit shield has a SD card accessible via S...

  • Dev to Dev

    YT2095
    I`m not Quite sure Where to start here, as some of you may already know from my last couple of blogs, I`v been working with the Duinomite board(s), and have one of these mounted on a breadboard (Kind of?), and of course this allows me to mess about q...

  • Dual Level Controllers

    deetergroup
    If you want to control the level of liquid in a tank between two points and/or you want an extra control output in the event that the tank over or under fills, this controller box is what you need. The controller box provides safe low voltage for th...

  • LED灯具专卖店建设缓慢 受五大方面制约

    ledlszm
    LED补光灯具的故障虽多数发生在电源上，但并不能一味责备电源企业。由此也表明，LED电源的可靠性也与其的应用领域息息相关。led终端的渠道建相对LED研发制造的火热环节相比显得有些缓慢。目前，专业经营LED补光灯具的制造企业已经有几千家，但是在市场终端，专业从事LED产品经营的商家却寥寥无几，LED专卖店在市场上也较为少见。近日，笔者就LED专卖店建设的话题与业内人士进行了交流，了解到要做好LED专卖店，内功修为可一定要扎实。建立专卖店，无论是对产品销量的提升、LED补光灯品牌形象的塑造、消费者...

  • Series Circuit Puzzle

    e14 Contributor
    www.youtube.com/watch This is a simple electricity based puzzle I made recently. I've been sharing it with my friends, and I have received many wild explanations to how this work. However, no one has been able to accurately draw me a schematic o...

  • Who is Electro-Matic Connectiviy?

    e14 Contributor
    Founded in 1969 as a provider of industrial automation products, Electro-Matic Products supplies various industries. EMP has quiet the history of introducing innovative technologies to market with superior design features and overwhelming value for c...

  • Todays little "waste of time" :)

    YT2095
    Ok, so here`s some pics of the little beastie that`s used up so much of my time this week, I`v mounted it to an Alu plate in this picture with little silicone rubber feet, I had to rob some of my daughters beads to use as stand-offs for the board mou...

  • a Fantastic "time waster"

    YT2095
    I`m a bit too old now to say "I`m in Love", so I`ll temper that a little and say I`m certainly Infatuated with my latest item to hit the bench.and I`v not "lost" so much time since the Internets were created as I have with this DuinoMite board!Being ...

  • Rock and Roll life of a Computer/Software Engineer

    patkelly
    I stumbled across this video on Youtube highlighting the exciting work life of a typical computer/software engineer. It what most of us do sat at our desks but it's strangely entertaining and makes you think. www.youtube.com/watch Is this your t...

  • Ouverture du projet Hyperion P.A.C.

    e14 Contributor
    Bonjour,      Element14 semble être une communauté idéale pour y démarrer un projet qui touche l'électronique ainsi que l'informatique. Hyperion P.A.S. est un projet qui vise à concevoir de A à Z et au moindre coût un Système...

  • Setting the Open Heart a flutter

    fustini
    Howdy, This year I decided to make my own version of the HeartSpark which I gave my girlfriend last year for Valentine's Day: http://www.element14.com/community/blogs/pdp7/2011/02/14/heart-spark-an-open-source-valentine-3 I posted last...

  • TCN75-3.3 Temp Sensor Control Board

    robotonics
    I just started on a project to familiarise myself with the TCN75-3.3MOATCN75-3.3MOA Temp sensor from Microchip. I have used a PIC24FJ64GA004 microcontroller, mainly to practice programming the PIC24F. Below is a pic of the etched PCB board ...

  • the Uno32

    YT2095
    A bit of an Impromptu blogging here (I really love the concept of Blogs btw, I`m new to it and wish I`d discovered it earlier instead of the silly website attempts I made in the 90`s) I digress.anyway... I just to delivery of a rather snazzy little d...

  • openPicus Flyport WIFI

    robotonics
    I have tried to develop an application using the MRF24WB0MA Wifi module from Microchip. I had no problem building a board, however, I had huge problems unravelling code for the TCP/IP stack. All code provided by Microchip is intended to be used ...

  • new to SMD/SMT Devices?

    YT2095
    So was I until this morning! in fact I So wasn`t sure about what to do I kept a Photo record so that I could post on here "What went WRONG!!???? please help!".turns out that this will be somewhat of a tutorial for others like me (prior to this mornin...

  • One month into 2012...

    wendypreston
    Hi all, I realised it was probably time for another blog post.  After, the reason for not blogging is because I am so busy, which must mean I have something to blog about! 2012 has started well.  We have new producte being added t...

  • New TI deal - F28069 Piccolo controlSTICK

    RWM
    www.tideals.com - F28069 Piccolo controlSTICK at reduced price!

  • Introducing the "Multipoint Wireless Sensor Network V1" from LogicaTronics

    logicatronics
    Hello, I'm Richard Oliver, Director of a micro-business called LogicaTronics Limited here in the UK. We are not corporate, but we are professional. As an Independent Electronics and Software Developer, we evangelise mbed and other types of Singl...

  • Another common question - how to have multiple fused poles

    M_B
    Another common question I encounter (just asked now in fact)  is how to use the CFTBN fused terminal block in an application with more than one live terminal. The example recently was an emergency lighting application. The engineer had a live an...

  • Merry Birthday to You

    fustini
    Howdy, I had a great time making SMD LED Christmas cards (which double as tree ornaments) back in December:However, I only managed to make 3 out of 13 in time after parts and PCBs finally arrived.  My mom's birthday is today so a couple of ...

  • wired up

    e14 Contributor
    got the network and usb wired up useing old ide cable and tested out network peformance works great need to change the usb wireing to a thicker guage wire cause its low on power  next is to get a short cat 5 cable to run inside the case&nbs...

  • There you all are!

    YT2095
    bloggy bloggy blog blog    no, I haven`t entirely lost my mind (yet), but have you stopped to consider what a gift Vision is? a bit of background on Today... This morning, after taking Nick Gray`s advice (one of our experts here) on ADC con...

  • your Very Own computer!

    YT2095
    something I`v been thinking about for some years now, what does it mean to have your very own "Computer"? I have to confess that todays machines do little for me, in fact Less than little, they Annoy me most of the time!it almost seems like the whole...