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YAPS Part Twelve - Design revisited: reworking the layout and PCB

Andrew J

Two things became very clear to me once I got into the detailed testing of the project:I have completely stuffed up the grounding and layout of the components. In particular the Switching Regulator has a convoluted route back to Vin -ve and the...
- 11 Aug 2019
Micro: Bit code club post 2: Radio communication and Electronic Voting Machines!

ashutosh_pandey

It has been an interesting week here in Bangalore. After the students got acquainted with how to use the micro:bit and its sensors, we decided to move on to more complex projects. Over the course of 6 days students worked on Radio communication using...
- 11 Aug 2019
Convert a 2.4GHz wireless speaker to bluetooth.

mfetting

My Rocketfish RF-WS02 Digital Wireless Speaker uses a proprietary 2.4GHz wireless communication system to transmit low-latency, high fidelity audio from an audio source to the speaker. Which worked great at first, but has developed an annoying ...
- 10 Aug 2019
Release 2019-5 test

rachfasi

Release 2019-5 test
- 9 Aug 2019
Jive 9.0.5 upgrade regression

oadesida

Jive 9.0.5 upgrade regression
- 9 Aug 2019
Hacking the Backlight on a Sharp Atomic Alarm Clock

airbornesurfer

Thankfully, it's a pretty simple override to just bridge the two sides of the switch. It seems like there's a timer IC that counts how long to keep the light on for, and "holding the button down" just continuously resets that timer....
- 6 Aug 2019
Hardware acceleration is the next battleground in SoC design

tomtzigt

Tech decision-makers and company leaders often say they value cost, performance, and efficiency—but following through requires determination and business acumen. Only the most sophisticated leaders can lead these transformations—for instance, the tra...
- 5 Aug 2019
Micro: Bit code club Post 1: Humble beginnings and a game of Hand Cricket.

ashutosh_pandey

Greetings from India! Before starting this post, I'd like thank jlucas and danzima for getting the Micro: Bit and Kitronik kits shipped here. I asked John a lot of questions, and he patiently answered all of them. Special thanks to Dayananda Sag...
- 3 Aug 2019
A Primer of MICROPHONE SENSOR ARRAY PROCESSING Fundamentals and Hardware Design- Part 6

noorpuri

4.1.1 Digital MEMS MicrophoneThe selection of Microphone plays a vital role in the efficient Array processing. Now-a-days MEMS Microphones are considered as best choice for the development of Microphone Sensor Array due to following featuresMechanica...
- 31 Jul 2019
GuardPost - Azure Sphere NFC RFID Reader/Writer

mfetting

Utilizing the SunFounder PN532 NFC RFID Module Kit to control physical access to a building. The Azure Sphere supports universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART) for serial communication. The UART provides the ability to send and receive data...
- 31 Jul 2019
A Primer of MICROPHONE SENSOR ARRAY PROCESSING Fundamentals and Hardware Design- Part 5

noorpuri

3.3 .Beamforming Beamforming is spatial filtering exactly like to frequency domain analysis of time signals. It is used to maximize the sound quality. There are many definitions of Beamforming as follow Beamforming is a signal processing ...
- 29 Jul 2019
A Primer of MICROPHONE SENSOR ARRAY PROCESSING Fundamentals and Hardware Design- Part 4

noorpuri

3. Application techniques of Microphone ArrayThe fundamental techniques of microphone array are used to develop an acoustics based system according to the given requirement can be listed as Estimation of Direction of Arrival (DOA) E...
- 27 Jul 2019
A Primer of MICROPHONE SENSOR ARRAY PROCESSING Fundamentals and Hardware Design- Part 3

noorpuri
- 24 Jul 2019
A Primer of MICROPHONE SENSOR ARRAY PROCESSING Fundamentals and Hardware Design- Part 2

noorpuri

2.2. Microphone Sensor Array system A Microphone Sensor Array consists of multiple Microphones placed at different spatial positions and each of these microphones acts as an individual sensing unit. The output of a single Microphone based acou...
- 23 Jul 2019
A Primer of MICROPHONE SENSOR ARRAY PROCESSING Fundamentals and Hardware Design- Part 1

noorpuri

Abstract:Microphone Array Processing technologies are playing a vital role in every field of daily life by enhancing voice quality from the smart phone, inside the modern vehicles, conference audio systems and also in the concert halls. The vis...
- 22 Jul 2019
MyGuardian - Azure Wheelchair Monitor

mfetting

Wheelchair Monitor The number of Americans ages 65 and older is projected to reach 95 million by 2060*, bring the percentage of this age group in the total population to approximately 23%. An increasing number of older adults wanting to l...
- 22 Jul 2019
Azure Spree - Home energy use

kdwilson

Design and develop a project to monitor the real time energy use of your home, monitor the energy production of your solar system, monitor the efficiency of your HVAC. Combining all data to give you a real time view of efficiency and what appli...
- 19 Jul 2019
YAPS Part Eleven - Further Testing

Andrew J

EDITS: 21/07/19 - added a PDF of the schematic 11/08/19 - updated navigation links IntroductionMy intention was to document, in some detail, testing of the power supply with both ...
- 18 Jul 2019
Human Interaction Robot Based on the Satellite Kit Platform

jarain_78

In recent years there has been a growing interest in voice assistants. Large companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple, have presented their devices. These allow us to control objects in our home (lights, TV, etc.), using voice commands. ...
- 18 Jul 2019
Vidor's Toccata

alisterw

Posted by Al Watt in Programmable Logic on May 25, 2019 1:06:43 PM Sadly this project is not yet working. I need a bit more time but I will definitely get there! Please excuse the dreadful joke! Something I have been trying to...
- 17 Jul 2019
My time with the pi as a desktop

gam3t3ch

So it seems that over and over again I try to upgrade my pi desktop unit every time a new pi comes out so eventually the pi4 will be on my list of desktop replacements. But for now lets start with my adventures with the Raspberry Pi...
- 15 Jul 2019
Analog Discovery 2 LabVIEW Audio Analyzer

rusgray

This blog post is a continuation of the project I worked on for my Analog Discovery 2 RoadTest Review. Check back soon for updates! UPDATE 1 (7/16/19) I've managed to get the analyzer partially functioning. I'm getting reasonable ma...
- 13 Jul 2019
Using MikroE Click Boards™︎ with Microsoft Sphere

james.flynn

Implementing MikroElektronika Click board™︎ support on Azure Sphere MT3620 Implementing MikroElektronika Click board™︎ support on Azure Sphere MT3620 Overview Development Platform Demonstration click-board Repository Demonstration Programs...
- 12 Jul 2019
Laser safety is so important!!

dwinhold

Hello everyone, I just wanted to show how laser safety is so important. I am bad for this myself as I was educated the old school way, safety is secondary. I have recently purchased a laser CNC. I have been following all safety procedures with i...
- 12 Jul 2019
Renesas Synergy AE-Cloud1 for IoT and IIoT #2

weiwei2

The Renesas Synergy AE-Cloud1 can use 2 IDEs, e2 studio and IAR for Renesas Synergy. https://www.renesas.com/sg/en/products/synergy/software.html accordingly to the page above , both are freeThis is about the latteri decide to install IAR partl...
- 10 Jul 2019