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.

ARM cortex M3 LPC1768

benak

INTRODUCTION TO KEIL:One of the important part in making an embedded system is loading the software/program developed into the microcontroller. Usually it is called “burning software” into the controller.Prerequisite operations with the p...
- 19 Oct 2018
The Belson FM/AM radio

kk99

I would like to present the really old transistor radio called Belson AM/FM. This radio was made in Japan. It is supplied by three 1.5 V batteries. It probably has around 45-48 years. It is preserved in very good condition. I have cleaned...
- 18 Oct 2018
Google AIY Voice Kit Test

korn

With wake phrase players.brightcove.net/.../index.html With Button press players.brightcove.net/.../index.html
- 15 Oct 2018
The Great Micro:big GiveAway... Introduction

heathmacnelson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLHTWwOBaoA&feature=youtu.be Here is the video of my husband introducing the micro:bit to our group of Ngobe tribal students. Normally, they gather to play soccer. They all wanted to register. I noticed sever...
- 13 Oct 2018
The Great Micro:bit Giveaway… Learning!

heathmacnelson

Back at home, we are having regular power outages with all of the rain. I am learning all that I can about the Micro:bit. The educational resources are exciting and quite supportive. Teachers and moms that I am trying to...
- 13 Oct 2018
Going back to school

littleben1

Ok so for reasons out of my control (illness) I've been disabled for many years now, but still a functioning human being who loves to learn. Anyways, for a while I had considered going back to school (probably online) just to keep my mind busy and no...
- 13 Oct 2018
robotic vacuum defeated

littleben1

So spent a very long day trying to figure out if the battery on a robotic vacuum was bad or not, due to the fact that it wouldn't charge. I've had this project sitting around for awhile and I'm kind of ashamed to admit that it is a friends vacuum and...
- 9 Oct 2018
The Great Micro:bit Giveaway: Arrival

heathmacnelson

I was so excited to receive my Club Pack, full of 10 micro:bits and accessories, AND a bonus gift workbook, that I am incredibly excited about. Pretty cool that the bits come already programmed to immediately engage us humans, in a friend...
- 7 Oct 2018
Micron 40th Anniversary

kevinkeryk

According to this Wikipedia entry here, today is the 40th anniversary for Micron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micron_Technology So happy birthday to you Micron, you are really a great supplier to work with on several projects over the ye...
- 5 Oct 2018
going insane

littleben1

I have been racking my brain over the Element14 Easter egg badge. The Title of the badge is gnu overhead so I'm thinking it's got to be something with some type of gnu(free software) cloud based setup and have been searching and searching. unfortunat...
- 5 Oct 2018
Product Review : Desoldering Pump

meera_hussien

Desoldering Pump Last week I bought a desoldering pump from element14. The shipping took less than one week to arrive and it cost around RM 32.00. The manufacturer of this product is Duratool. This is the first time I am buying a product of this...
- 3 Oct 2018
Rocklin Mini Maker Fair October 6th

jomoenginer

For those in the NorCal area, the Rocklin, CA Mini Maker Faire will be in full swing this Saturday October 6th from 9am to 4pm at Sierra College. There is something for everyone, young, old, young at heart or even old at heart. &nbsp...
- 3 Oct 2018
Kudos to element14 on the Great micro:bit Education Giveaway

yg@ap

I received our micro:bit Club pack last night from element14. Thank you!We really love the idea of the Giveaway, and crowdsourcing good vibes and good actions. I'm feeling really happy to have stumbled upon this community, and I look...
- 3 Oct 2018
Mr Moog's Fabulous Filter

jc2048

This blog is about a ladder. Another one. A few days after I had finished the series of blogs I did on the R-2R resistor ladder I was in my local library, browsing the shelves in the way that you do, when I came across a book [1] on the history ...
- 2 Oct 2018
Investigating IoT Wireless Signals (Part II)

caroline_teledynelecroy

Internet of Things (IoT) devices must communicate with their peers--other IoT devices--as well as with the host system that governs their activities. In our previous post, we examined how to perform amplitude and frequency demodulation of RF bursts, ...
- 2 Oct 2018
The Great micro:bit Giveaway: Anticipation

heathmacnelson

I would like to share our journey of discovery, my students and I. Our kids were just selected to be recipients of a Club bundle of 10 micro:bits. As a Newbie Grandma Coder orNGC, I will be discovering along with m...
- 28 Sep 2018
RAK831 LoRa Gateway with Raspberry Pi

oksbwn

Lately, I have been working with LoRAWAN and I don't have Lora gateway around. As you might be knowing LoRAWAN network requires a gateway to push data to the internet. As Lora is not an IP based protocol the gateway helps it in doing so. Basicall...
- 27 Sep 2018
An overview of the LTE Cat 4 IoT Starter Kit operation

james.flynn

Overview The M2X Interface PC & SK2 environment setup Running Quick Start Source Code OverviewI have been recently revisiting the software that goes along with the AT&T IoT Starter KitAT&T IoT Starter Kit (referred to as t...
- 25 Sep 2018
Using the Mbed O/S to build an Azure IoT Client

james.flynn

I recently was asked to create an Azure IoT Client using the Mbed OS. I know that the ARM Mbed OS is a rapidly evolving operating system, so I thought that the first thing to do was to see if there was any reference/sample code available....
- 25 Sep 2018
Mini Arcade Consoles

korn

My son and I decided to update the Cigar Box Game Controller we made last year using some boxes from harbor freight.First thing was the artwork. Not my job… Probably why it came out so nice…Starting with a 1/8 drill bit then moving on to forstner bit...
- 25 Sep 2018
Motion security system

dmdobrea

Introduction The motion security system is an application able to work only with CC2650 SensorTag. This limitation is mainly due to a unique capability of the CC2650 to wake-on-movement (shake detection). &nbs...
- 24 Sep 2018
Getting Started with the Cora Z7 Board - A Step by Step Guide to Creating a SDK Project

adamtaylorcengfiet

A few weeks ago we looked at how we could create the hardware element of a Zynq design which uses the Cora Z7, in this blog we are going to look at how we can create the software application and run on the hardware.To do this we are going to use Xili...
- 23 Sep 2018
Why I don't own a benchtop PSU, for my solar projects

station240

As my areas of interest are power electronics, SMPS, solar power and related areas of Microcontrollers and opamps, any form of PSU I use for testing has to be suitable. But most of the electronics can be powered from simple fixed voltage supplie...
- 22 Sep 2018
Alternative HW Platforms for Implementing an Azure IoT Client using the Mbed O/S (part 3)

james.flynn

Ethernet with the NXP FRDM-K64FFRDM-K64F Board LTE-M Cellular Data with a NXP FRDM-K64FFRDM-K64F Now, you have a program that works using a cellular connection, but the beauty of ARM Mbed OS, is that once that is done, it is trivial...
- 21 Sep 2018
Community Reference at Matrix Labs

Sean_Miller

Just thought I'd share an interview Connor and I had with Matrix Labs where I referenced the community and talked about our experience on the Ben Heck Show. www.youtube.com/watch
- 21 Sep 2018