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.

  • Getting The Most Out Of Your Oscilloscope: Cursors and Parameters

    caroline_teledynelecroy
    Oscilloscopes give us a wealth of tools with which to view, measure, and analyze the performance of a circuit. Broadly speaking, two classes of such tools are cursors and parameter measurements. Taken on their own, both classes afford the user a grea...

  • Bluetooth Challenge - Home Security System - Blog Post VII

    kedwards@swbell.net
    Hello Everyone, Finally, I am making progress. I figured out the problem I was having with accessing the UARTs. I needed to make changes to the /boot/uEnv.txt file. The details are in Section I. After I resolved the UART problem I made the final...

  • Just finished a tough road test

    Fred27
    Well, I've finally finished my RTM3004 Road Test! Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscope Kit RTM3K-COM4 - Review  It was a amazing to be selected for it and I'm really grateful to E14 and Rohde & Schwarz. I felt that such an impressive piece of te...

  • Simple TileMate

    anuag_ashim
    I wanted to write about tileMate since some time now. I got this small device few months ago at a corporate event and immediately declared it useless. But after using it for some months now I have found it utterly useful. As a person who is unorganiz...

  • Wireless ECG

    kk99
    I would like to present my project which I made four years ago. It was wireless electrocardiograph which work with mobile device.Main presumptions of project:- simple analog front-end working with ARM device and responsible for data collection and tr...

  • ON Semiconductor IoT Workshop

    anupash.1002
    I recently attended the ON Semiconductor IOT Hands On Workshop organized by Arrow Europe in Dortmund. This is a short update on the event and the IOT kit.The workshop was very well organized. I decided learn something new and it was worth it. Th...

  • Cat water spray

    jeanmatthieud
    I love my cats. But they can be really annoying... One of them tries to enter our bedroom every day at 5am, by scratching the door. I want to be able to stop it! That's why I created my water-spray! www.youtube.com/watch It's b...

  • Getting The Most Out Of Your Oscilloscope: Documentation

    caroline_teledynelecroy
    If we really want to get the most out of our oscilloscopes, we'd be remiss in overlooking the documentation capabilities that modern instruments provide. It's so important to document our working sessions so they're consistent and repeata...

  • Uni-Tunes

    jc2048
    Introduction In the course of doing the Simple Music Maker I experimented with a few other odds and ends, both as real prototypes on a breadboard and messing around with the simulator. Here's one of them. I'll blog about a couple of the others, ...

  • Getting The Most Out Of Your Oscilloscope: Trigger Delay

    caroline_teledynelecroy
    Triggering is one of the most basic, yet most useful, tools your oscilloscope offers you. Say you want to see what led up to, and/or what follows, a trigger condition. You're looking at an interesting waveform such as that shown in Figure 1. You ...

  • Getting The Most Out Of Your Oscilloscope: Navigation With MAUI

    caroline_teledynelecroy
    Today's real-time digital oscilloscopes are easier to use than their predecessors, and new models get easier all the time. Oscilloscopes often are equipped with touch screens and elaborate user interfaces that provide a plethora of shortcuts and smar...

  • Problem with the Altera USB Blaster programmer drivers

    sigaris
    I had a problem with the Altera USB Blaster programmer. When I connected the programmer to Windows 10 (64-bit), I received a message about an unrecognized USB device.(I am Polish, that's why I use the Polish language version of Windows). To ...

  • Getting The Most Out Of Your Oscilloscope: Setup

    caroline_teledynelecroy
    Figure 1: Choosing a effective sample rate is key to seeing the finer details of a waveform  Today's real-time digital oscilloscopes are so packed with bells and whistles (or "features," if you prefer) that you can forget how to use many o...

  • Implementing Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Mbed OS on the Avnet NBIOT-BG96-SHIELD

    james.flynn
    Hardware Platform AWS IoT Example AWS IoT SDK Tutorials Differences Obtaining and Building the Mbed AWS sample code Using on-line Mbed compiler Using the Command Line Interface (CLI) AWS Mbed Sample Execution Shadow_sample output subs...

  • High Throughput SPI traffic part 3b - SPI with DMA works

    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 DMA working.  Attention: there's pre-knowledge required. For this blog i...

  • SMT Hybrid Packaging Messe 2018

    snidhi
    The SMT Hybrid packaging international exhibition was going on side by side to PCIM 2018 so I had a chance to discover never seen before new stuff going on in production and manufacturing side of electronics pcb process. The high level of automation ...

  • New Measurement Devices PCIM 2018 -- Part 5

    snidhi
    Some new measurement devices at display at the PCIM conference. From Weller to R&S to LeCroy everyone had their brightest star at the exhibition.  New Soldering Stations from METCAL with integrated software to monitor the status in soft...

  • Hercules Safety MCU Demo with Educational BoosterPack in Action

    Jan Cumps
    Learn about Safety features, test interactively and step through with a debugger.This project gives you ready to run hardware with a screen menu and a joystick to navigate through Safety processes.  You can trigger Safety mishaps in real time an...

  • My Treasures from  PCIM 2018  -- Part 4

    snidhi
    The main aim to visit such events as an engineer for me is to learn what is going on, have a big picture in mind, attend technical lectures and most important of all lay my hands on sample/free development boards, kits and parts.  I was surprise...

  • Focus on Energy and Capacitors  PCIM 2018  -- Part 3

    snidhi
    A significant focus on electric car charging stations and the core power systems and development involved in it. Wanted to see the connector on the other side What does a high power charging PCB looks like...heavyyy  A small colle...

  • Power Electronics  PCIM 2018  -- Part 2

    snidhi
    A quick dive into what was on display at PCIM 2018 in terms of power boards and new devices. There was a deep focus on automotive industry and the growing power hunger of electrical cars, smart charging stations battery management.  Focus o...

  • My trip Update to PCIM 2018  -- Part 1

    snidhi
    This is a short blog on my trip to the PCIM 2018 International Exhibition and Conference for Power Electronics, Intelligent Motion, Renewable Energy and Energy Management held in in Nuremberg, Germany. Table of Blog Series My trip Update to...

  • Smart Home: Movie Light V2.0

    djfraz
    So after having my previous Movie Lighting board break, Smart Home: Movie Lighting, I Broke it. I decided to make a new version with some improvements and hopefully have it last longer. I started by ordering the parts I needed, bit of a mistake,...

  • Craftsman Table Saw

    bradybowers
    Today I assembled my Craftsman table saw.  It took about 2 hours because I decided to install the safety gear on it such as the teeth that prevent kickback and also the guide to keep wood from bouncing up I presume.  I bought this late on t...

  • Starting out...

    bradybowers
    I believe this is my first blog so I'll keep it short.  I plan on covering any random topics I am thinking about so here we go. -have fun