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.

  • Release 2019-9 testing

    rachfasi
    Release 2019-9 testing

  • I have an Element14 blog now!

    ktrainor
    Hi All, I decided to create and Element14 blog and post this message to see if my status would change from 'Just joined the community'.  Wish me luck! Best, Kevin

  • Circuit Switched Data (CSD) Setup Application Note

    omari
    This application note details how to use an analogue circuit switched connection (CSD) between a Siretta Modem intergrated to an existing systeam at a remote location and another modem at a different location for the purpose of data transmission or r...

  • Goodies bag

    three-phase
    It appears that I am also a recipient of some project14 goodies.  Sone stickers and a post card to add to the collection. An Arduino thingy and two extension boards. I really must learn to do something with those. A Feather Huzzah. A select...

  • More Walking Robots : Following on From Tobbie

    dubbie
    I obtained my first six-legged walking robot in Jan'19 as a post-Christmas present to myself.Walking Robots #2 : Tobbie is Completed which I tried (and failed) to convert to Arduino control, mostly due to my own mistakes, I have thought about ret...

  • (Not) Getting started with the Nordic Thingy:91

    stevesmythe
    Thanks to element14 and Nordic Semiconductor, I won a Nordic Thingy:91 for asking one of the best five questions in a recent element14 webinar - Nordic Thingy:91, Cellular IoT Prototyping Platform (Winners Announced: Win a Nordic Thingy:91 for Askin...

  • Raspberry Pi Magic Mirror project

    cypresstwist
    A friend of mine is a Harry Potter fan. So when her birthday approached I've decided I'll gift her something special. I took a Raspberry Pi 3 B+, a Skywriter HAT for gesture control, an old 17” LCD monitor and some cables and set to work. There's a L...

  • Design for manufacture

    duncannicol
    In today's digital world, designing electronics devices is all about form and function and engineers are often working in isolation during the design phase. By isolation I mean disconnected from the down stream manufacturing process. As a design ...

  • Arduino Shield For LCD Testing

    meera_hussien
    Arduino Tutorial #11:Simple Arduino Uno Shield For LCD Test               In this post, we shall see how can we can make a simple Arduino Uno shield to test HD44780 LCD. This shield can...

  • Makevember++ : A Christmas LED Decoration

    dubbie
    I know that it is now December but I still have one more Makevember project to include, which I mostly did in November, so I have made it a Makevember++ Project. It is just 7 white LEDs arranged in the abstract shape of a Christmas tree. I 3D printed...

  • A Hard Lesson Learned - PART II - Climbing out of the Hole!

    neilk
    Where am I? At the end of my last Blog, I had a semi-functional Arduino IDE/ESP8266 development environment. It would sometimes compile a sketch correctly and sometimes it would fail to compile the same, unchanged sketch, usually with errors rel...

  • A Hard lesson Learned - Always Document your Software Development Environment before Upgrading

    neilk
    WHAT DID I DO? Wednesday 27 November 2019 was cold, raining and generally miserable, so I decided to try and get back to some project work. I hadn't done any coding with my Arduino IDE since about May this year, so I thought I'd better c...

  • IoT: Should You Be Connecting Your Devices Via VPN?

    raulharman
    As of late, IoT (Internet of Things) devices have been in the centre of attention both from consumer and business point of view. Consumers find the concept of smart homes convenient, whereas businesses are more than looking forward to gathering consu...

  • Oooh.....Goody box.

    Andrew J
    Look what arrived today: Could it possibly be...? Yes!   It's a 10Kg/22lbs behemoth!  Now all I need to find is a UK power cable!  With many, many thanks to James, , and Element 14.  It was awesome to ge...

  • AWS IoT Device Shadow Service

    brianchilders
    The AWS IoT Core Device Shadow Service solves the problem of communicating to a device, even if the device is offline.  The Device Shadow enables you as a programmer to retrieve the last known state of the IoT device or even configure a desired ...

  • Swag Pack November 2019

    jc2048
    Received this 'swag pack' last week.   Not sure why I got it, but thanks anyway. I like the Faraday and Lovelace stickers, they're cool. I'll see if I can do something with the Uno.

  • Makevember Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Project!

    gam3t3ch
    When it comes to the Raspberry Pi I love to come up with new projects and test things out and play around even if it fails its all about learning and enjoying the adventure.  The Raspberry Pi has been a wonderful source of knowledge in my shop a...

  • Blue Robot Man Electricfied : Part 1

    dubbie
    Ever since I received a Blue Robot Man I have toyed with the idea of converting him from mechanical power to electric power so that  he would be able to dance forever! Having recently received a package from Element14 for Makevember that contain...

  • My 2019 Top 10 Items I wish Newark Could Have Sourced for the Maker Community

    Sean_Miller
    This year my son and I joined a lot of competitions at e14.  Some we placed in the competition, some we got a goose-egg.  With Christmas around the corner, I took a trip down memory lane through my main two Maker part suppliers:  Newar...

  • Christmas has come early this year!

    gecoz
    A few days ago I received an email notification from UPS: a parcel was coming my way! The sender address gave me some clues as coming from element14, and I guessed it was from .I had no idea what the content could be, as recently I have be...

  • YAPS Part Thirteen - Encasement and Wrap Up

    Andrew J
    Selecting a CaseI need to fit most of this lot into a case  Aluminium, not too big and I want it to have some sort of decent aesthetic given it will sit on my desk for some time.   There are some very nice cases out there, mostly at an...

  • Why am I here...

    brianchilders
    I thought I'd share a little about myself to help others know why I'm here.  If you're not interested, just click on to the next thread / topic.  My career has been an interesting one, I've done everything from building computers to softwar...

  • Testing Release 2019-8

    rachfasi
    Testing Release 2019-8

  • ESP32 Devices

    brianchilders
    After looking around at the projects I could get started in, I am settling on one (or two) projects that are inexpensive and allow me to get my feet wet in electronics and assembly. The first project will be to work with the ESP32 micro-controll...

  • Thanks for the Nano

    dubbie
    I'm not sure what I did to deserve this but a parcel arrived a couple of days from Tarig Ahmad. As usual I left it for a day, or two in this case, to let the excitement grow. In the parcel was an official Nano (my first one - but don't tell A...