Legacy Personal Blogs

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- 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
Alps exhibited at CEATEC Japan (3)

alpselectric

Alps electric showed its HAPTIC Reactor at CEATEC Japan. The product generates realistic and diverse vibrational feedback,and vibrational expression based on sound.Demonstration with rolling ball machanism received much attention. Product i...
- 13 Nov 2018
Wireless voltage measurement with microbit

kk99

Test InstrumentationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a Grand Prize for Originality, a Tool Set, and a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll Micro:bit has a...
- 12 Nov 2018
How I Enroll for a RoadTest - Part 7: Case for Some Other Road Tests

Jan Cumps

The element14 roadtests are a great way to learn new things. Whenever I see a test that interests me, I enroll.Success is not guaranteed. I've been selected for some, not for others. In this series I'll explain how I decide to enroll or not.I'll also...
- 12 Nov 2018
Project: Object Tracking Gimbal - Blog 1

milosrasic98

Introduction Hi! For now I had only worked on smaller couple of weeks projects, where I would usually end up with either a prototype/proof of concept, or something that is only useful for me. So I thought why not try out somet...
- 11 Nov 2018
Vivado's forgotten feature: The Dashboard

wolfgangfriedrich

The roadtest about my adventures in Vivado together with the Digilent ARTY S7 board continues. I just re-found a feature that might help during very low level debugging and system testing: the dashboard. It is accessed through the hardware ...
- 10 Nov 2018
Emerging Application Areas for IoT in the Consumer Retail Industry

qliktagsoftware

Internet of Things is the talk of the town over in construction, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation and home automation. But we are yet to fully tap into the potential of IoT driven solutions to trigger disruption in and deliver value to the c...
- 6 Nov 2018
Acquiring and Characterizing IoT Sensor Signals

caroline_teledynelecroy

If we recall our earlier post with its definition of what constitutes an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device, one of the main functions of such devices is to sense its environment and digitize the collected data. Often, an IoT device uses many sensors to...
- 5 Nov 2018
Adventures in Board Bring-up Chapter 1: 8-Channel USB Audio Interface

rusgray

I'm currently working on bringing up a board for a piece of hardware I've been working on for a little over a year. You can read more about the history of the project on my project website if you're interested. This post is a work in prog...
- 5 Nov 2018
4D IoT Game Engine Blog

Sean_Miller

The underlying objective of this project is to build us a personal library of circuit blocks for high power motors and actuators and a suite of microcontroller web socket (IoT) code that will serve us for every future build to come. A build vid...
- 4 Nov 2018
Scare-O-Matic

wolfgangfriedrich

www.youtube.com/watch The Scare-O-Matic is a little box 105mm x 65mm x 45mm with a 5V barrel jack for power supply, a motion sensor and a powerful 0.5W 45mm diameter speaker.The motion sensor is wired to a Sparkfun microSD Audio Module WTV020SD ...
- 28 Oct 2018
:MOVE mini buggy kit + micro:bit unboxing and first impression

mahmood.hassan

Here is the gallery of unboxing snaps of MOVE mini buggy kit + micro:bit. {gallery} :MOVE mini buggy kit + micro:bitIMAGE TITLE: Element 14 Box containing MOVE mini and microbitIMAGE TITLE: That how the contents were placed inside Element 14 box...
- 27 Oct 2018
Combined NFC reader / keypad

Fred27

So, the board is back from the fab. It looks really nice - especially as it only cost $1 (+$8 shipping) for 3 from Seeed. It's been pasted, populated and toasted and ready for test. Well - it would be ready for test if it wasn't missing just ...
- 25 Oct 2018
Er liquid.

littleben1

does anybody have a good source for a small amount of electrorheological fluid? needing some to test an idea I have.
- 25 Oct 2018
Future-proofing Clinical Trials Management with Digital Labels & Smart Packaging

qliktagsoftware

Growing at a CAGR of 5.7%, the global clinical trials industry is set to be worth $65.2 billion by 2025 as per Grand View Research, Inc. Under the constant stress of a myriad of challenges like complex research designs, stringent and ever-changing re...
- 25 Oct 2018
jc2048 Blog Index

jc2048

Electronic Art 9 Pieces of Pi: Slice 1: The Long Way Round 9 Pieces of Pi: Slice 2: Manifesto for Art Electronic 9 Pieces of Pi: Slice 3: Trickle Down to the Brave New World (This Way!)9 Pieces of Pi: Slice 4: Fast Forward micro:bit The ...
- 24 Oct 2018
What The Heck Is TIROS?

airbornesurfer

Raspberry Pi NOAA Satellite Receiver element14 Presents | AirborneSurfer's VCP Profile | Project Videos Great vintage background material on NASA's first experimental weather satellite, developed by RCA and launched in 1960. N...
- 23 Oct 2018
Shameless

littleben1

cstanton yes I did this to shamelessly get the mega bytes badge finished, thanks for the use of your name
- 21 Oct 2018
Simple thermometer based on DHT11 sensor

kk99

I would like to present a simple thermometer with support for humidity measurement based on DHT11 sensor. This sensor is connected to the atmega328p which is responsible to reading the data. Recived data is presenedted on two seven segment displays: ...
- 21 Oct 2018