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Power Consumption of a Wemos D1 mini ESP8266 - Long Term Test 1

neilk

Background In my previous Blog: https://www.element14.com/community/people/neilk/blog/2019/02/14/investigating-the-power-consumption-of-a-wemos-d1-mini-esp8266 I described my investigations into the power consumption of a Wemos d1 mini ESP8...
- 17 Feb 2019
TinyMoBot #6 : The Transparent Version

dubbie

I am still working on my Tiny24hourMobot, which as the Question of Scale Project14 has finished I will now call TinyMoBot. As I do not yet have the smaller parts needed to make TinyMoBot fit inside the spray can lid I thought I would look at slightly...
- 15 Feb 2019
EU Pharmaceutical Serialisation Directive: Future of Pharma Smart Packaging

qliktagsoftware

According to the estimates of World Health Organisation (WHO), 1 million people globally lose their lives due to falsified medicines. It is the most lucrative of all counterfeiting businesses, netting in 150-200 billion euros per year. In...
- 15 Feb 2019
Power Consumption of a Wemos D1 mini ESP8266

neilk

Background I'm working on a long term project (several years now, if I'm honest!), to provide environmental monitoring and possibly some environmental control for my greenhouses. I've already investigated temperature monitoring using DS18B20 pro...
- 14 Feb 2019
STM32WB55 - New STM BLE5.0 Nucleo Pack

tonydbeck

Please comment if you would be interested in a thorough review of the following kit....... If there is interest, I would be happy to write up a Road Test type review of this kit and include a lot more detail than what is here. I w...
- 13 Feb 2019
How Equalization Works in 10x Passive Probes

caroline_teledynelecroy

We've been discussing 10x passive probes and their inner workings; our last post covered all the ways in which a 10x passive probe is apt to be a liability. They'd be basically unusable for any measurements at all but for one attribute: their...
- 13 Feb 2019
Transistors: Saturation Part 2 and Inverse Mode

jc2048

This is another exploratory blog relating to bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). It follows on from a previous blog whichcan be found here Transistors: Saturation Be aware that I'm not an expert in all this: I'm studying it and you're looking o...
- 12 Feb 2019
Secrets of the 10x Passive Probe

caroline_teledynelecroy

We began this series of posts on oscilloscope probes by putting them in perspective: Probes have a number of different jobs to do, including serving effectively as both a mechanical and electrical interface. Despite having electrical attributes of th...
- 8 Feb 2019
Putting Probes in Perspective

caroline_teledynelecroy

Few aspects of using an oscilloscope are as important as the probe: after all, the probe forms both the mechanical and electrical interfaces between the device under test (DUT) and the oscilloscope itself. To feed a signal into an oscilloscope, we&#3...
- 1 Feb 2019
Walking Robots #4 : I have complete control!

dubbie

I have now connected both of the motors within Tobbie to the Arduino that I have used to replace the provided control PCB, The DRV8833 PCB that I am using has two H bridge drivers so I just connected the second motor for rotating the head, to the sec...
- 31 Jan 2019
Product Review : Knob Potentiometer

meera_hussien

In the market, there any many types of potentiometer. For a different application, we use different types of the potentiometer. Today we will look into the preset potentiometer with a knob. I like this the most because ...
- 29 Jan 2019
Studying : Robot MOOC : Week 4

dubbie

The fourth and final week of the FutureLearn Beginning Robotics MOOC has now come. This week the emphasis is much more on control strategies for the mobile robot and on self-learning. The same types of mobile robots are discussed but with sligh...
- 29 Jan 2019
Epilogue to PS3 controller

ajkatz83

Just wanted to update and say the PS3 controller and Bluetooth associated issues were figured out. Note: that when using the ControlBlocks and the drivers that go with it, automatically controller one and two are taken by this add-on regardless...
- 28 Jan 2019
Connected Weighing scale using HX711 and ESP8266

oksbwn

Since I got into Home Automation System, I have always wanted a central system with as much as information about me starting from my food habit to each and everything that can be measured or collected. You can say that it is greatly influenced by JAR...
- 28 Jan 2019
Arduino Tutorial #6: Introduction To Arduino Using Matlab Simulink

meera_hussien

Arduino Tutorial #6: Introduction To Arduino Using Matlab Simulink In this tutorial, I would like to introduce you to the Arduino using the Matlab ...
- 28 Jan 2019
Tobbie #3 : DC Motor Control

dubbie

Now that the existing control PCB has been removed from Tobbie I can replace it an Arduino. I have decided to use an Arduino Nano, mainly because it is small and I have one. It might even be possible to fit it all inside the available head cavity in ...
- 28 Jan 2019
Making a Come Back

alanthom

So after many years of hands-off hard core electronic work - how does one start again? My first challenge was not being able to see that well anymore. This is a huge impediment. In my younger days, I could read the part number on a ...
- 28 Jan 2019
Drive Sony FD-40A via comoposite input by ESP32 module

kk99

I have found a library for composite video for ESP32 board. You could find more details about this library on author's page: esp32-composite-video/. Based on informations on this page and examples I have create simple demo which allows me ...
- 25 Jan 2019
Tobbie Hacking #1 : Removing the Existing Control PCB

dubbie

Now that Tobbie has been successfully assembled it is time to take him apart again so that I can replace the existing control PCB with an Arduino Nano. Despite having only recently assembled Tobbie for disassembly I thought I would have to remove the...
- 25 Jan 2019
Mobile Robots I Wish I could Make!

dubbie

Having been involved with mobile robots most of my working life (off and on anyway) I just wish I could make them as good as these! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JY_JeodKw A pity they're not real. Dubbie
- 25 Jan 2019
Walking Robots #2 : Tobbie is Completed

dubbie

Continuing with my investigation of walking robots I have completed making Tobbie, as illustrated in the video below. I am very impressed with the mechanical engineering and design of this product and I think it is a great robot. I am sure that there...
- 24 Jan 2019
Tek 465B Additional Teardown Pictures

baldengineer

Teardown Tools element14 Presents | Bald Engineer: James Lewis' VCP Profile | Project Videos www.youtube.com/watchWhen tearing down a product, you will need a screwdriver and plenty of bits. Duratool has you covered with this ...
- 23 Jan 2019
Studying : Begin Robotics : Week 3

dubbie

Week 3 of the FutureLearn Begin Robotics MOOC has arrived already, it doesn't seem all that long since I started with Week 1. The content now is much more challenging than the first week, but still understandable. There is a section on the ...
- 21 Jan 2019
Walking Robot #1 : Collecting Some Ideas

dubbie

For some time I have been interested in creating my own walking robot. Not so much the two legged human like but more replacing wheels with something resembling a leg or leg type motion. I have sort of designed and made a four legged quadruped type s...
- 21 Jan 2019
Examples of IoT DDR Debug Scenarios

caroline_teledynelecroy

Our last post considered some broad aspects of debugging DDR memory on Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as how chip interposers can help with probing access and the benefits of virtual probing software. Let's now take a look at some particu...
- 18 Jan 2019