Legacy Personal Blogs

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Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress v2 - Original PCB Rebuild

Andy Betts

The Electric Mistress....... This effect pedal, along with the Big Muff defined David Gilmours sound through the late 70's and into the 80's and beyond. This pedal, although not used extensively on the album was utilised on nearly all the songs on th...
- 10 Jul 2018
Getting The Most Out Of Your Oscilloscope: Tracks and Trends

caroline_teledynelecroy

Our discussion of cursors and parameters leads us neatly into the topics of tracks and trends, which are both means of extending parameter measurement into a more analytical direction. We can do this using math functions that are part of your Teledyn...
- 10 Jul 2018
MSP430FR2633 Saving FRAM when uploading code

baldengineer

On the MSP430FR2633 I needed to store an unsigned long in FRAM. The approach and examples suggested this was a straightforward task. The catch is that I wanted to avoid losing the contents when reprogramming the chip. This post is a description of wh...
- 10 Jul 2018
555cc

jc2048

This is some more experimenting and general 'fiddling around' sparked off by the Project14 Simple Music Maker challenge. 555 timers have been around for a long time. When the UK electronics store chain Maplin went out of business a coup...
- 9 Jul 2018
X-SERIES BECOMES CAMDENBOSS' MOST ROBUST ENCLOSURE RANGE

catherine@camdenboss

The X-series offers unbeatable protection against every knock, bump and scrape. The X8, X7 and X6 series are now CamdenBoss’ most robust electrical enclosures with IK09 impact resistance rating. Together with IP66/67 class sealing, the X-series...
- 5 Jul 2018
CONNECTED AGAINST THE ELEMENTS - CAMCIRC CIRCULAR CONNECTORS

catherine@camdenboss

CamCirc is the interconnect solution from CamdenBoss that can take on the elements and withstand the worst of nature. ‘WEATHER’ your application be military, industrial, autosport, medical or marine, CamCirc will perform where other products often fa...
- 5 Jul 2018
When the weather turns wet and cold ( not that we’ve seen that in a while) we wrap up, face the elements and grin and bear it but how does an electronics device continue to perform when it’s based in these conditions?

PhoenixContactUK

Whether you agree with the concept of global warming or not we all know that mother nature can throw some challenging weather our way. We all discuss the weather when we are either too hot or too cold and sometimes simply to break the ice when ...
- 3 Jul 2018
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...
- 3 Jul 2018
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...
- 3 Jul 2018
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...
- 25 Jun 2018
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...
- 23 Jun 2018
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...
- 23 Jun 2018
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...
- 23 Jun 2018
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...
- 23 Jun 2018
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...
- 21 Jun 2018
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, ...
- 19 Jun 2018
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 ...
- 18 Jun 2018
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...
- 14 Jun 2018
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 ...
- 13 Jun 2018
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...
- 13 Jun 2018
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...
- 11 Jun 2018
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...
- 10 Jun 2018
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 ...
- 8 Jun 2018
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...
- 8 Jun 2018
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...
- 8 Jun 2018