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.

  • And I am back.....

    gam3t3ch
    I just got back from a small few day vacation so much going on... And while on vacation I get the email notification I got in on one of the Road Tested I applied for.... Super stoked about it! So going to have fun with that once it arrives on th...

  • Information Display System using WeMOS and MAX7219

    oksbwn
    This tutorial is all about making a WiFi based information display system. This system is built around ESP8266 but not the standalone ESP8266 instead WeMOS is used and programmed using Arduino IDE. So In this video, we will check out how to make an i...

  • Air Quality Mini Station [3] - Schematic

    gelmi
    A long weekend is gone and it is time for an update. I have created a schematic for the Air Quality Mini Station project. For the main subsystems I have used: USB - micro USB connector with ESD protection chipPOWER/LDO - filtering ferrite beads ...

  • Getting started with NodeJS | GPIO Access | Onion Omega 2

    oksbwn
    www.youtube.com/watch Omega2, the $5 IoT computer.It is a Linux computer designed specifically for building connected hardware applications. It combines the tiny form factor and power efficiency of the Arduino, with the power and flexibilities o...

  • GPIO Programming using JAVA | Pi4J | Orange Pi

    oksbwn
    www.youtube.com/watch This is a simple tutorial on using GPIO of Orange Pi Zero using JAVA. For this, I have used Pi4J library which also works with Raspberry Pi.  This tutorial might help you to interact with GPIO in your IOT projects. In ...

  • Brain Computer Interface | NeuroSky Mindwave | EEG Data Sets | Game Simulator | Asphalt8

    _vishaladitya
    www.youtube.com/watch EEG Data Sets & Game Simulator- Asphalt8 Using BCI [NeuroSky Mindwave] The objective of this project is to develop an understanding and implement the usage of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) and further use it to en...

  • AVNET ABACUS IoT Stuttgart, 09. May 2017

    RAMI
    AVNET ABACUS LÄDT SIE HERZLICH ZUR ERSTEN ‘JUST IOT IT’ SEMINARREIHE EIN. Wir haben die Bauteile für Ihre IoT Anwendung. IoT ist in aller Munde und der Trend für Ihre Applikation der Zukunft. Die Avnet Abacus zeigt in einem kostenlosen Seminar am 09....

  • Safe & Sound Wearables - Trackable Safety Helmet for Miners #7: Data from Sensor to PC

    msimon
    In the last post, I have mentioned the sensor board I built on Arduino. I was testing the system using the serial port and before adding many sensors, I wanted to make the board work independently. Therefore I connect MSP432 and Arduino using the ser...

  • Youtube is the Devil

    gam3t3ch
    So after 7 years of video uploading and creating content I finally decided to go through all of them and start editing them all so they might get more traffic.  I tell you its been the most boring longest part of it yet.  Creating tags and ...

  • Control Logic

    timswift
    I have now finished all ten 4 bit register boards and with them about one third of the soldering (I hope so at least).So now I am moving on to the construction of the multiplexers but in the meantime I thought I might look into the design of the cont...

  • micro:bit as Scratch controller over USB cable

    veaki
    We started to work with micro:bit in Experience Workshop.Our first project is a Scratch controller micro:bit over USB cable, so you don't need to buy a BLE112 bluetooth module.Read more on :  https://github.com/vecsei/Scratchbit

  • Robot remote control for a very Low price

    joaoprosa@mail.telepac.pt
    Dear Sirs of element 14 Community I want to show my idea, and work I have a prototype, in this way who can control a robot remotly in any part of the world with precision for a very low price. The old ISDN network can be seen as a real time IP n...

  • Hello!

    e14phil
    Hello! I would like to introduce myself, my name is Phil Hutchinson, I am new on the element14 team and will be helping out in the running of design challenges. My background is as a Project manager, events manager but also a maker. I am a ...

  • Transistors: Some Very Old Ones

    jc2048
    The other day, I was sorting through some old boxes and found a small bag of old transistors. There were two types, bothof them PNP devices. One kind was an OC204 part, made by the old British company Mullard, the other a 2S3220 device madeby Texas I...

  • Creating a hackers laptop

    chioma
    This one of my biggest dreams to be a well renowed hacker if only one could get into a program where he/she could be able to participate in such practice.

  • Wojtek’s Trick of the Week - 2

    gelmi
    When I work on my designs in Eagle I usually set grid size in mils. It is convenient for me because most of the PCB manufacturers I use specify minimum trace width and distances in mils. Then, when I place some component, this component is aligned to...

  • Kids wanted a new spinner toy

    gam3t3ch
    I decided I was too cheap to buy them one but I will spend the time to design and make it go figure eh?With a little help from the CNC Machine and V-Carve Pro I most of the battle is done.  I see tons of these on the internet not sure why I don&...

  • Smart Transport Wifi

    kishore4110
    This smart Transport WiFi would be placed on every bus stop freely for the people to connect and check where's the bus is coming tracking and informing them there's a passenger waiting for the bus stop.As smartphone was entering in every man's life a...

  • Long day an almost done the shop

    gam3t3ch
    Managed to get alot accomplished today even got some cnc work done.

  • FTDI Chip | BRIDGETEK CleO35  and NERO-LP1 -- Weekly Progress Report

    adsicks
    I took on these Road Tests to help get me out of a terrible habit – soaking up a large quantity of information, applying it, and not documenting or sharing it back to the community. I’ve heard the Dead Sea is considered dead because it is insular and...

  • When IoT gets you in trouble...

    jlangbridge
    Note: Details of this incident have been left intentionally vague, for several reasons. This also occurred a few months ago, dates also have been left vague. It's a little after 7AM, and I'm tired. I woke up at around 5 to get ready, facing the ...

  • Easter is comming and we have a weather bomb

    WarrenW
    Well it looks like we will not be venturing outside much this weekend with the worst storm forecasted for 50+ years.I guess I will just have to strip out the pic micro from my old archery displays and shoehorn in the Arduino to interface to the digit...

  • Arduino Project Step 2

    jeepingoody
    Continued from my first project (First Arduino Project ) This time i was able to connect 2 more sensors, bring total to 3. Not sure what happened but sensor B was reading "correctly" (3-4 degree difference from Sensor A that was right next ...

  • The Switch From Windows To Linux.

    fluxcap
    I am writing this on April 11 2017. I've only ever had experience using windows as my operating system. I didn't even hear of linux until a month ago and recently decided to use the OS just to try it out getting different distributions (distros). I'v...

  • The counterfeit problem is not going away

    RogerUKEA
    An interesting article in Electronic Specifier from one of the delegates who attended our recent Anti-Counterfeiting Forum Seminar in London:The counterfeit problem is not going away  We were delighted to see the highest number of delegates yet ...