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.

Implementing my Local Webserver - a frustrating, yet instructional story.

neilk

I've long harboured the dream of remotely monitoring the temperature in my greenhouses, but have been put-off by the need to run cables, or invest in relatively costly WiFi shields for my Arduinos. I'm sure there are other solutions, but let&...
- 17 Dec 2018
Next project .... Seismograph ?

tigerfeather

next project suggestion at home seismograph with data logging and maybe a mesh network of them to pin point the direction. The Surf Lab: A Place For Kooks and Dukes Alike
- 15 Dec 2018
Adding GPS functionality to the BG96 on the Telus LTE-M IoT Starter Kit

james.flynn

Previously, I developed an example program using the Telus LTE-M IoT Starter Kit (available from Avnet) using the Mbed O/S. This effort is detailed in the Blog post https://www.element14.com/community/blogs/JimFlynn/2018/09/25/using-the-mbed-os...
- 14 Dec 2018
Fluke Prize Winnings

three-phase

I recently completed a survey sent to me by Fluke and at the end had the option to enter a prize draw with the ability to select the preferred prize. Some of the prizes were meters, but they also offered their Calibration: Philosophy in Practice...
- 13 Dec 2018
Derek Molloy's new book includes PocketBeagle and BBB Wireless

jomoenginer

It looks like Dr. Derek Molloy, the author of the very popular Exploring Beaglebone and Exploring Raspberry Pi, is creating a second edition of his Beaglebone book which will include the PocketBeagle as well as the BeagleBone Black Wireless. Dr' Moll...
- 13 Dec 2018
Debugging Ethernet, SATA, and PCIe for IoT Devices

caroline_teledynelecroy

Figure 1: A generic IoT block diagram shows serial-data links in blue In our ongoing review of debugging serial-data standards for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, let's now turn to three more popular protocols: Ethernet, SATA, and PCIe. Et...
- 13 Dec 2018
Finished the Mobile Robot MOOC

dubbie

Having become a little behind on the four week Open2Study Mobile Robot MOOC that I signed up near the beginning of November 2018 I decided to put some extra effort in and get ti finished. I didn't quite manage to get 100% in every asse...
- 13 Dec 2018
Anyone need a set of SNES ASICs?

baldengineer

The Good NewsThe chips are in good physical shape. I removed them from the board with a hot air pencil. There are no significantly damaged pins. The chips include the main CPU, VRAM, PPU1, PPU2, and two 32K RAMs. There is also a BA6592F TV enco...
- 13 Dec 2018
micro:bit Break-In Game

yg@ap

The micro:bit Club we have been awarded from element14 for the Great Micro:bit Education Giveaway is still awaiting its showcase at one of our preferred At-Risk Youth Centers here in Singapore. Meanwhile, we've been working with Maha Bodhi s...
- 13 Dec 2018
Arduino Tutorial #4: RGB LED

meera_hussien

Arduino Tutorial #4: RGB LED In this tutorial, we will look into how to control the RGB LED. First, let us look at the theoretical of the RGB LED. B...
- 12 Dec 2018
ALPS / Energy harvester SPGA Series debut

alpselectric

ALPS' SPGA series Energy Harvester is a compact power-generating deviceemploying electromagnetic induction to generate power with each push or release.The product can function as a switch when it's combined with low-power wireless technology....
- 12 Dec 2018
Quick LED project

dwinhold

Here is a quick LED project I made for my daughter. The picture was cut with a CNC in 1/4" Plexiglas, I drew it in AutoCAD. There is an LED light strip attached to a USB outlet which I plugged into a battery. Thanks for checking it ou...
- 11 Dec 2018
Studying

dubbie

One of the goals of my retirement was to undertake some further study, mostly in robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Not for any constructive reason but just for fun. I didn't want to do anything too heavy or demanding as I wanted to be retired and...
- 10 Dec 2018
Arduino Simulator : UnoArduSim

meera_hussien

In this tutorial, we will look at the readily available simulator for Arduino. There are a lot of simulators available in the market. Some need to be purchased and some are freeware, which means you can use it for free. Today we will look at the Ard...
- 8 Dec 2018
iWave's RZ/G1C Single Board Computer to rank 'TOP 10' Single Board computers of 2018

prashanth.nagendrappa

Hi All Great to find iWave's G1C SBC ranked in TOP10 by EE Times. https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333687&page_number=8 &nb...
- 3 Dec 2018
Key Microminiature Connection Points

MolexConnectors

Microminiature connectors were initially designed for consumer handheld devices but are now being used in applications across my industries. These new application features have translated into more modularity and increased flexible printed assemblies...
- 30 Nov 2018
IOT Central - Microsoft's SAAS Solution

james.flynn

Overview Data Collection Internet Storage aka, the cloud Managing/Manipulating the Data Creating the IoT Central Application Create the Application Create a REAL device Configuring your Telus Kit/Data-Collection device source code Mon...
- 29 Nov 2018
Testing-8 pb

rachfasi

Testing pb
- 28 Nov 2018
Comdev-2154

summerella_nonadmin

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html
- 28 Nov 2018
A Transistor Load: Stability

jc2048

Introduction This is a follow-up to A Transistor Load which I blogged about as part of the Project14 Test and Instrumentation competition.Since then I've been looking at the way the load performs, so this blog is on the subject of stability. By ...
- 28 Nov 2018
Debugging CANbus For IoT Devices

caroline_teledynelecroy

A myriad of serial-data standards come into play when we're discussing Internet of Things (IoT) devices. We've talked about I2C, SPI, and UART in a previous post. Yet another serial-bus standard that comes under the IoT umbrella is the Contro...
- 27 Nov 2018
How ‘Connected’ Consumer Products Could Help Reduce Food Waste in the Near Future

qliktagsoftware

Approximately 1.3 billion tonnes or one-third of the food produced in the world for human consumption gets wasted every year, amounting to a loss of roughly $680 billion in industrialized countries. More than 40% of this waste and loss occurs at the...
- 22 Nov 2018
Debugging Low-Speed Serial Data on IoT Devices

caroline_teledynelecroy

Our last post discussed the difficulties in acquiring the many sensor signals that may be input to a deeply embedded system such as an IoT device as well as a hardware solution to the problem. Another aspect of IoT debugging and validation is the low...
- 21 Nov 2018
Getting up and running with Arm Design Start

adamtaylorcengfiet

One of the big announcements at the recent Xilinx Developer Forum (XDF) in San Jose was the Arm design start programme. This opens to FPGA developers license free both the cortex M1 and M3 for our Xilinx FPGA designs.In our design, we use the Cortex ...
- 19 Nov 2018
High Throughput SPI traffic part 4a - SPI Master with DMA and Parallel Data Lines

Jan Cumps

We know SPI as a 4*-wire protocol. But it doesn't have to be.I'm checking high speed SPI data transfer with buffers, DMA and parallel data lines. In this blog, I finally got everything working. I'll show a single buffered SPI Master with D...
- 16 Nov 2018