Legacy Personal Blogs

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Using Midas I2C LCD with Arduino

lee329

I had one of below product on my bench so try to use it for my project Manufacturer: MIDAS Manufacturer Part No: MC21605G12W-VNMLWI Order Code: 2425704 Product Range View the full series and range associated to this ...
- 25 Sep 2019
Kaypro USB Keyboard Interface (TTL)

mfetting

My goal is to have a keyboard interface that would enable the use of a USB keyboard with a Kaypro computer. The Interface will allow input from a USB Keyboard and communicate via TTL serial (transistor-transistor logic) through the J2 serial in...
- 19 Sep 2019
ESTEEM Club - Blog 1

carlitos71

We’re pleased to be taking part in Farnells Element 14 summer challenge. We’re a little bit late getting started with the ESTEEM clubs so we’ll use this first blog to share with the community how we developed the ESTEEM concept, what is all about and...
- 16 Sep 2019
Micro Bit: Code club post 7: Coming full circle

ashutosh_pandey

When I started this code club in July, I started with a few daring students. They worked, learnt and enjoyed themselves so much, that the school has formally decided to have a 'Computer Science Club' where students will be encouraged to code ...
- 15 Sep 2019
Micro: Bit code club post 6: Smart Refrigerators

ashutosh_pandey

Resource conservation is very important. Annually, a huge amount of resources are wasted for often trivial reasons - someone leaves the tap running for too long, leaving the lights in the room on after exiting it, etc. So at the code club we decided ...
- 15 Sep 2019
Micro: Bit code club post 5: Compass and Radio systems

ashutosh_pandey

As a kid, I learnt how a compass worked. It was almost magical to a 7 year old me to see a suspended bar magnet reorient itself. Now that I get to teach the kids here how to code, they often surprise me with their creations. One student came forward ...
- 15 Sep 2019
Micro: Bit code club post 4: Fun with piezo buzzers

ashutosh_pandey

The students at DSIS have been very busy over the last few weeks building their projects, and unfortunately so have I. Now that I have some time off from college, I am going to document their progress over the last month. Piezo Buzzers:Till now ...
- 15 Sep 2019
Fluke 1732 few hours usage review

weiwei2

earlier this week i got a few hours chance to use Fluke 1732 energy logger. It is the first time i use it although i have some somewhat similar datalogging usage before. I would think it is a relatively easier instrument to work itas what i understan...
- 15 Sep 2019
Kaypro 10 with MFM Hard Drive Reader/Emulator

mfetting

Kaypro 10 In June of 1983, Non-Linear Systems introduces the Kaypro 10, it shipped with one double-sided double-density (DSDD) floppy disk drive and a 10-MB internal hard drive. Currently, replacement parts for both the floppy and hard dri...
- 15 Sep 2019
Installing the Arduino IDE on Raspberry Pi (both ways)

gam3t3ch

So when I first started playing with the raspberry pi and getting it connected to my Arduino Uno I was all but happy to see things starting to work I was able to program and upload sketches to it. This was great for the first little bit b...
- 11 Sep 2019
CatDogFox #7 : Unboxing Prizes

dubbie

Having recently been happily awarded a $100 (or £81) prize for CatDogFox in Remote Monitoring and Control I splashed the cash on a Knippex wire stripper (after being encouraged by shabaz 's article on wire stripper. I might not use it that much but i...
- 11 Sep 2019
If need for space

gomathybabu

"Time for you, as to be provide by you to yourself rather expecting it from others"
- 10 Sep 2019
Node.js - A Beginner's Project

djfraz

Personally I have not had much experience with working with backend web development (server side), but for an industry placement I will be doing for my degree, I am going to need to be able to work with Node.js. Something I have had no experience wit...
- 9 Sep 2019
Sensing the World with sphere

vinojv

Started to Process the development kit
- 7 Sep 2019
Two Boxer Robots Interacting

dubbie

I have always wanted to obtain one or more of the small Boxer mobile robots that were first manufactured a few years ago, but they were too expensive for me. Recently I saw that the price of new ones had dropped significantly from £70 to £30. I then ...
- 6 Sep 2019
Elderly Activity Monitoring Using Agile SmartEdge

jarain_78

Story In recent years there has been anincrease in applications related to Internet objects (IoT), the vast majority ofthese applications focus primarily on the control of our homes, themotorization of environmental data, intelligent citie...
- 4 Sep 2019
Monitoring the energisation of a 132kV Circuit

three-phase

Introduction Something a little bit different of a blog from me with this one, but as it is along the lines of data acquisition that I have been looking into recently, I thought it might be of interest to some. I was requested to assist wit...
- 3 Sep 2019
Arduino UNO Clone for DIYers - Updated!!

andrewsays

One of my kids has just started studying Arduino and she is working on simple projects. She wants to build her own Arduino someday but she still has a long way to go until reaching to that level. She is just barely doing the simple programming with k...
- 3 Sep 2019
Port of Microsoft Sample: Wi-Fi setup and device control via BLE

james.flynn

IntroductionThe Microsoft sponsored MT3620 communicates using a WiFi connection and in a development or static environment this isn’t an issue, but when deploying in a dynamic field environment, can be because accessing a dynamic WiFi environment and...
- 3 Sep 2019
R&S - FPC1500 new firmware release, InstrumentView new release

geralds

R&S has released a new firmware for the FPC1000 and FPC1500 as well.https://gloris.rohde-schwarz.com/irj/portal/SearchDetailView?xml.unique.id=670352_en&relatedDownloads=542759,670353 Also, there is a new release of the software Instrum...
- 3 Sep 2019
UltraZed-EV Software VCU Lib Test

mollex

Hi everyone!If you want to create your project based on a VCU library or modify it, then perhaps my repository will be useful to you. Getting Started This repository contains example how to build library and app for an easy start debugging ...
- 30 Aug 2019
Layerscape LX2160A: Strong Enough for Computing but Made for Embedded

layerscapesupport

* This blog is originally posted by Joe Byrne @ https://blog.nxp.com/industrial/layerscape-lx2160a-strong-enough-for-computing-but-made-for-embedded . I recently got in a discussion of which graphics card to pair with NXP’s Layerscap...
- 29 Aug 2019
Three Phase Contactor Testing

three-phase

Introduction This blog is an extension of the contactor testing I have carried out recently utilising the Keysight DAQ970A. It goes into the testing arrangements more and the results obtained, so that the Roadtest can concentrate more on the per...
- 28 Aug 2019
PlatformIO #2 SiPEED Maxduino ---> error

weiwei2

The first device i try with PlatformIO IDE is SiPEED maixduino. It is what known as AIoT, which means IoT device with AI technology. The device is powered by a Chinese chip Kendryte K210. It is a system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates machine vision an...
- 26 Aug 2019
PlatformIO IDE for VSCode

weiwei2

Today try install a new IDE for embedded device on Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Windows 10 Proit is call PlatformIO IDE. It supports quite a number of embedded device like MSP430, STM32 and RISC-V I use Anaconda as my bridge to python and it ...
- 25 Aug 2019