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.

  • Instrument Control Board: DAC and ADC Characterisation

    Andrew J
    EDIT: I decided to enter this in the Project14 competition for DIY Test Instrumentation and that post contains a lot of the information originally in this one but in more detail.  This post has been changed to just concentrate on the DAC and ADC...

  • Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 - FPGAArcade Replay - Playing Pong

    javagoza
    Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 - FPGAArcade Replay - Playing Pong To finish the FPGAArcade Replay library test with the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000Arduino MKR Vidor 4000, we connected a keyboard and powered the board with a regulated power supply.When connec...

  • Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 - FPGAArcade Replay - SD Card Connection

    javagoza
    You can boot FPGA cores from FPGAArcade Replay framework, on the MKR Vidor 4000 with the FPGAArcade Replay library: https://github.com/FPGAArcade/replay_mkrvidor4000  One of the prerequisites is Arduino MKR SD Proto Shield or Arduino MKR ME...

  • Lego Lamborghini

    dwinhold
    So I was a bit board on the weekend and decided to add LED’s to my Lego Lamborghini. Dale W

  • Saving energy with SiC technology: 6 facts you should know about SiC

    rohm_eu
    The use of SiC technology leads to considerable energy savings and CO2 reduction. Therefore, SiC is considered to be the future of power electronics. What makes this material so special? Here are 6 key facts you should know about SiC: With a few...

  • Noise: Transistor Preamp 3

    jc2048
    Introduction About time I did some more blogging. This one will be a confused mess as I try to untangle and document some of what I've just been doing: regard it as a few 'notebook' pages rather than a coherent blog effort. I&#3...

  • Hi everyone!

    dychen
    I wanted to make a quick introduction...I'm Dave, the new guy on the element14 team! I'm going to be helping Randall and the content team here at element14, including the Tech Spotlights, Quizzes and more. My degree was in Electrical Engineering...

  • The Aperture Science Personality Core Initiative: How to Build an Animatronic Robot from Portal 2 in 100 Easy Steps!

    mrvolt
    This blog will be an ongoing mind dump as I plan out my build of a roughly half scale “working” version of an Aperture Science Personality Core, specifically: Wheatley. Here's the first video intro of my series. www.youtube.com/watch For th...

  • Sparkfun RedBoard Artemis ATP on Arm®︎ Mbed™︎ OS

    javagoza
    SummaryThis guide will cover the installation of the software required to develop with Sparkfun RedBoard Artemis ATP on the Arm®︎ Mbed ™︎ operating system.  RedBoard Artemis ATPThe Artemis module has 48 GPIOs and the RedBoard Artemis ATP expo...

  • Weather Station (Pimoroni Enviro Board)

    cbohra00627
    Previous year, I got a Pimoroni Enviro board for a competition on E14. I was not able to complete my proposed project on time due to some technical issues and college exams (Well, the truth is that I was struggling with the Raspberry Pi the whole tim...

  • Surf Report 2021-6-4

    airbornesurfer
    I finished broadcast rig that I've been working on this past week or so. It's now streaming a reasonable facsimile of The Weather Channel, circa 1995. I'll likely add more features to it as I go along, but it's at the minimum viable product stage, an...

  • FPGAs are a Blast!

    jc2048
    About a week ago I bought myself a USB Programmer for Altera FPGAs and CPLDs. The place I bought it from also had a small, simple CPLD board based on a Max II part for sale, so I got one of those too. The pair came to around £16 and arrived the next ...

  • HIOKI and Lithium Ion Batteries

    cookmesomekai
    In 1985 a team around Akira Yoshino from the Japanese Asahi Kasei Corporation finished the development of a lithium ion battery that allowed for commercial mass production and that was the prototype of the lithium ion battery which we know today. Fur...

  • Fixing Grandchildren's Toys

    dubbie
    I was fortunate to see my family yesterday with the grandchildren and I was presented with two toys no longer working. They contain electronics which was no longer functioning. After serious consideration and deep, deep thought I inserted some batter...

  • Capacitores - ¿Cual es la nueva tecnologia de este componente?

    nio
    Vamos a ver que tanta experiencia tienen en este tema, por lo que me gustaria saber si podemos alimentar este blog, podrias charlar e inclusive si pudieras compartir links de imagenes seria muy bien venido, de antemano les agradezco la infomación com...

  • Surf Report 2021-5-28

    airbornesurfer
    I took a little bit of time this week to work on a couple of side projects before I get back to work on Project Califone in earnest. I have a collection of hockey pucks depicting the history of the sport in Atlanta (from the Flames in the 70s to toda...

  • RASPBERRY PI PICO - Zippy IO Pins

    scottiebabe
    I am just starting to skim through the published specifications for the Pi Pico. At a casual glance the IO drive strength looks quite a bit stiffer than what I am accustomed to seeing on other MCUs. The output HI drive IV curve is given as:&nbsp...

  • Did Newark serve me a slice of bamboozle Pie?

    scottiebabe
    I was excited to see Newark list approximately 2000 units of the Pi Pico in stock yesterday!!!  I immediately jumped at the opportunity to pick up a few of the new on the block $4 development boards. Yay!!! When I placed my order, the Pi Pi...

  • What to look for in enclosures suitable for medical applications and environments

    camdenboss
    Medical devices put tough demands on enclosures. From special hardwearing materials that can withstand heavy use on a daily basis to easy clean finishes and ergonomic designs. After all, they carry out a very important job and form the basis of a doc...

  • The Art of Noise

    jc2048
    22nd May 2021  I've just been playing with a very simple noise generator and that's the result.The digital phosphor of the oscilloscope presents multiple traces of the waveform as though it were sketched with a pencil or crayon. In cas...

  • Surf Report 2021-5-21

    airbornesurfer
    Nearly a month between surf reports! I must be slipping--or I've just been inordinately busy with the Day Job. I finally finished the pre-amplifier stage of Project Califone. Of course, I forgot how a comparator works, so that took some consternation...

  • KRIA ... reproducing the benchmark results

    albertabeef
    In this blog series, I discuss various topics regarding Kria. IntroductionIf you did not see my overview of the new Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit, check it out on hackster:http://avnet.me/kria-tutorial I wanted to reproduce the benchmark...

  • DLIB ... building from source on Avnet platforms

    albertabeef
    This blog takes a deeper dive into building DLIB from source, in reference to the following hackster project:http://avnet.me/vitis-ai-1.3-headpose The first thing to do is to download the source tar bar from dlib.net (I tested with version 19.21...

  • project overview

    retrofusion35
    so rough outline of the task ahead and the goal at the end of the tunnel 1-using as many new / updated parts as possible create a pcb design based off an existing CRT driver IC.2- be able to use RGB inputs without hijacking the menus for RGB passthro...

  • Best ESP32 Based Development Boards

    dnukavin
    I'm sure if you are an electronic geek, you might have heard about ESP32. It is a small yet quality microcontroller that will become handy for your projects. So, in this article, we will see briefly what ESP32 is and its features in short and more on...