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.

Reverse Lookup

e14 Contributor

Hey, by doing a reverse lookup online anyone can reveal the entity behind that anonymous ID. That ID could be anything: a phone number – thus, a reverse phone lookup; or an email address – a reverse email search it will be; or an SSN&nbsp...
- 26 Oct 2011
TI Piccolo Multi-DC/DC Color LED Kit Roadtest - Unpack + First Test

Stefan-xp

Hello People, I'm happy to present my first Blogpost @ element14 today, how the fortune turned, I was so lucky to receive my Roadtest-Package today :-)This was the UPS Package :-)This is the TI Piccolo Multi-DC/DC Color LED Kit PackageThis is the Con...
- 26 Oct 2011
Simple NE555 sound generator - video

RWM

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html Morse code
- 26 Oct 2011
Simple NE555 sound generator

RWM

What do we need to build NE555 sound generator? Traditionally NE555, one capacitor, two resistors and one speaker (besides power supply). Can this be simplified? Yes! Schematic: Speaker acts like sound transducer and part of frequenc...
- 26 Oct 2011
Piezo generator - video

RWM

Short video: players.brightcove.net/.../index.html
- 25 Oct 2011
Simple NE555 piezo sound generator

RWM

DescriptionMinimalistic NE555 design - simple sound generator using only one piezo element (membrane) to generate sound and one potentiometer to change frequency (besides NE555 and battery). Switch can be used to learn Morse code transmission. S...
- 25 Oct 2011
Interesting Talks by the Planetary Society

patkelly

The Planetary Society – Part 1: IntroductionPart 1: Jennifer Vaughn and Dr Bruce Betts give an introduction and some background on the planetary society before Bruce begins to discuss the first of several topics, the solar sail. The Planetary So...
- 24 Oct 2011
Productronica 2011 - innovation all along the line

wendypreston

Hi all, It's time for us to be getting packed and ready to ship off to Germany again - this time for Productronica 2011. The sister exhibition to Electronica, this show is for all the production equipment required to make those wonderful p...
- 19 Oct 2011
MSP-EXP430FR5739 Road Test Review

e14 Contributor

I was recently selected to Road Test the MSP-EXP430FR5739MSP-EXP430FR5739 kit. Unfortunately my detailed review in the road test section won't show up properly so I'm postting it on my personal blog here at E14, I hope you guys find it usefult. ...
- 18 Oct 2011
Code in peace: remembering Dennis Ritchie, father of C & Unix

fustini

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (source: Wikipedia) I was very sad to read a post from Jon "Maddog" Hall yesterday evening revealing the news that Dennis Ritch...
- 13 Oct 2011
Deeter Announce Free Wireless Sensor System Site Survey Service

deetergroup

The Deeter Group, market leaders in the design, development and manufacture of electronic sensors and control systems, announce the introduction of a free site survey service for customers considering the implementation of a Deeter or any other wirel...
- 12 Oct 2011
Deeter add Modbus Gateway Integration to Wireless Sensor System

deetergroup

The Deeter Group, market leaders in the design, development and manufacture of electronic sensors and control systems, has added a Wireless Modbus Gateway to its range of Wireless Sensor Network products. Any users of Modbus communication protocols ...
- 12 Oct 2011
Element14 Member of the Month - Nico teWinkel

patkelly

Rewarding 5 star members Today we are recognising Nico for his great contribution to the community in the Summer Of Design Competition and wider community. Nico will receive a mixed box of element14 goodies and development kits. Nico teWink...
- 10 Oct 2011
Today is Ada Lovelace Day

patkelly

Ada Lovelace Day is here!Do you remember which women have influenced you over the years?Perhaps your maths teacher, one of your university lecturers, or a colleague?This Ada Lovelace Day on October 7, share your story about a woman — whether an engin...
- 7 Oct 2011
LED照明应用市场发展以“用户体验”为中心

ledlszm

越来越多的国家都制定了节能减排的法规和照明标准规范，不仅有助于LED 照明灯应用市场的发展，也意味着LED路灯将成为下一代道路照明光源领域的主导产品。据估计，随着全球经济增长，全球路灯市场将呈现出逐年增长趋势。LED景观灯据统计，2010年全球路灯市场规模达1.6至1.8亿盏。其中，LED 景观灯以其卓越的环保性、可靠性、节能及便于美学设计的特性，成...
- 6 Oct 2011
Coherent light saves the day, lost keys returned

fustini

Howdy, Here's yet another reason to join a hackerspace that has a laser cutter - you can etch a QR code to help ensure your lost keys are returned safely: A QR Code That Returns Your Keys Once the code was generated, I etched the acrylic on ...
- 5 Oct 2011
Video: My Personal Motivator

maggie

Maggie finds out that with a little help from herPersonal Motivator (Kurt McStar, played by GregHelm), she can achieve amazing things. Maggie is inher element when she's "giving it her all." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi3fzfpSNUM My co-...
- 5 Oct 2011
Who’s your inspiration?

patkelly

As we live in these ever changing times of financial downturns, technology and electronics continues to advance at an ever increasing rate. We all sit at work or at home worrying about some deadline or how to tackle the next task on our lists (you mi...
- 5 Oct 2011
Program Technologického dne 5. října na FEL ČVUT

Kamila

Program Farnell Technologického dne ke stažení zde. Attachments:
- 4 Oct 2011
Defeating defeat

NurulTaha

It's been over a month since I came back from the World Cup. I had been disappointed with my performance there and I wasn't sure if there was anything I could share on. It was particularly upsetting that I had somewhat jeopardised my standing to qual...
- 2 Oct 2011
Visual diffs for hardware design

fustini

In a new post from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, the clever idea of visual diffs for schematics and board layouts is explored: GitHub now automatically supports visual diffs for image files included in commits. What this means is that if you...
- 29 Sep 2011
Deeter Wireless Sensor System – FAQ

deetergroup

Deeter Wireless Sensor System – FAQ Q. How does the Deeter Wireless Sensor System work?A. The Deeter Wireless system uses radio messages from a remote sensor unit to the base station. This replaces the traditional wiring used to connect sensors ...
- 29 Sep 2011
First work with an FPGA

e14 Contributor

Today, I had my first hands on experience with an FPGA, specifically an Altera MAX 7128S on a UP2 board. While the wiring was interesting (It took my lab partner and I a few minutes to realize that the ports directly around the chip correspond direct...
- 29 Sep 2011
Ben Heck gets a plug from the cycling mainstream

SamKavanagh

In my daily wandering of everything cycling on the Internet I was excited to see that one of Ben's recent developments was recognized by the cycling mainstream. Just goes to show how the world of technology is influencing the world in so many unique ...
- 28 Sep 2011
Farnell Tech Day - October 2011

Kamila

Farnell team would like to invite you to a unique seminar full of presentations about electronic design and exhibit of interesting technologies. You will have an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge and contacts with the number of leading m...
- 27 Sep 2011