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.

Orange Pi Zero | First Look

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watchWhat’s Orange Pi Zero？ It’s an open-source single-board computer. It can run Android 4.4, Ubuntu, Debian. It uses the AllWinner H2 SoC, and has 256MB/512MB DDR3 SDRAM(25...
- 11 Jan 2017
Dilemmas, dilemmas...

jlangbridge

There was a parcel waiting for me today. I hurried back home to see what it was. The fact that it had "element14" written on it made me even more excited! And here is what I got:I've just moved into a new house, so some geek decorations are more than...
- 10 Jan 2017
TPS54A20EVM evaluation - part 5

jc2048

This is part five of evaluating a TPS54A20 on an evaluation board. The TPS54A20 is a buck converter with an interesting topology - it has two phases merged with a switched-capacitor. This isn't a formal road test (I was given the board by jancumps, n...
- 8 Jan 2017
Flash MicroPython firmware to ESP8266

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watchFlashing MicroPython Firmware to ESP8266 12-F Module.MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimised to run on m...
- 7 Jan 2017
The Massive Russian Cybercrime Operation Stealing Millions from Advertisers - Inside ‘Methbot’

seyakers

Security experts have uncovered what appears to be the biggest and most profitable advertising fraud scheme known to date. In a report released Tuesday, cybersecurity firm White Ops mapped out a massive operation through which Russian cybe...
- 6 Jan 2017
Get an Email from Your Raspberry Pi with its IP Address

mikedavis

This came from my a recent post I did on my own blog, but I wanted to share it with this community as well. I often struggle with finding the IP address of my Raspberry Pi. I usually need to plug it into a monitor, get its address, ...
- 5 Jan 2017
mochila laptop

mochilalaptop

Comprar accesorios de viaje, mochilas viajes y accesorios, maletas equipaje, bicicleta lentes deportivos, mochila laptop, bolso tipo bandolera en Mexico.
- 4 Jan 2017
Bouncing and debouncing

jlangbridge

I’ve been teaching students of all ages, from 8 years old to adults, and one of the most common things I’ve heard is about bouncing. Sooner or later, we are faced with this rather simple problem, so what causes it, and what can we do? Let’s star...
- 3 Jan 2017
ROHM SiC SBDs (Schottky Barrier Diodes)

rohm

SiC makes it possible to develop SBDs featuring faster speeds and high breakdown voltages that exceed 1200V (vs.150V with conventional silicon SBDs), resulting in significantly lower recovery loss when replacing existing mainstream FRDs (Fast Recover...
- 31 Dec 2016
privacy of membership of private groups

b.smith

There are a number of private groups at this site, and it defeats the purpose ofhaving a private group if the membership list is public, as they all are.For example, there is a private test group: Rainbows & Butterflies and its membership is show...
- 30 Dec 2016
Flash NodeMCU firmware to ESP8266

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watchFlashing NodeMCU Firmware to ESP8266 12-F Module. NodeMCu is an open-source firmware and development kit that helps you to prototype your IOT product within a few Lua script lines. Links :NodeMCU official : http://bit....
- 30 Dec 2016
TPS54A20EVM evaluation - part 4

jc2048

This is part four of evaluating a TPS54A20 on an evaluation board. The TPS54A20 is a buck converter with aninteresting topology - it has two phases merged with a switched-capacitor. This isn't a formal road test (Iwas given the board by jancumps,...
- 29 Dec 2016
IOT BASED NET METERING

anandavishnu

IOT Internet of things is a promising idea . all of as know that manual metering is a tough job,so my idea is to connect electricity meters via internet through lan,wlan(wifi) or LoRa lan etc
- 28 Dec 2016
TPS54A20EVM evaluation - part 3

jc2048

This is part three of evaluating a TPS54A20 on an evaluation board. The TPS54A20 is a buck converter with aninteresting topology - it has two phases merged with a switched-capacitor. This isn't a formal road test (Iwas given the board by jancumps, ni...
- 27 Dec 2016
Calibrate your strain gage or load-cell system with high precision up to 1M resistors by Alpha Electronics. TLA, TLC Series

DavidGazit

* Custom calibration points easily available, even in small quantities* New calibration points easily added to kit for new or changing applications. Very adaptable! * Rugged & economical* Perfect for field or lab use TLA, TLC Series: http:/...
- 26 Dec 2016
1-Beginings

josephobsidian

English:this is being last year in college, i have grown nervious and anxious, i know i might not be the most acomplished engineer student in the world, nor even in my school, life wasn't easy but i wont make excuses, i really love my career and my f...
- 26 Dec 2016
Thermocouple Interfacing usng MAX31855 | JAVA & Pi4J| Raspberry Pi

oksbwn

Reading thermocouple data on RAspberry Pi using JAVA and Pi4J with the help of MAX31855 14 bit thermocouple to digital converter.The MAX31855 performs cold-junction compensation and digitizes the signal from a K-, J-, N-, T-, S-, R-, or E-type thermo...
- 21 Dec 2016
TPS54A20EVM evaluation - part 2

jc2048

In this next part I'm going to look at the output on a static load. Here's my output load: For 10A at 1.2V I need a load of 120 mOhms (1.2V/10A) and it has to be able to dissipate 12W (1.2V x 10A).I made this up from cheap 1 oh...
- 20 Dec 2016
Send/Receive data using BLE and MBED | BBC:Microbit

oksbwn

Guys this video is all about sending and receiving data between BBC Microbit and any BLE enabled smart phone. Over here I have used C/C++ (MBED) as the programming language as other language (Python/JavaScript) don't support UART data transfer servic...
- 17 Dec 2016
My favorite development boards

itsalivehobbies

Hello! I made this quick video to share my favorite development boards and to practice making a video in the first place. I rushed this video so I could start remodeling my basement into a better studio. I want to thank you for checking it out! It me...
- 16 Dec 2016
TPS54A20EVM evaluation - part 1

jc2048

It's Christmas! Well, almost. Santa has been early and delivered a present to me. I didn't realise this,but he's moved his whole operation from the North Pole to Belgium (perhaps he likes chocolate, frites,and reading Tintin comic books). The pr...
- 14 Dec 2016
Never Too Late for Computer Security

RParkerE

In today's world it seems far too often computer security takes a backseat to all the drama and stories and feeds that engulf social media. So I decided in light of this and as a late Computer Security Day post I wish to enlighten those who may come ...
- 14 Dec 2016
WT-E14

rsc

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html
- 12 Dec 2016
Tibbo Technology Announces new TIDE Release 5.03.03 that features TiOS Simulator

dmitry_slepov

New Tibbo IDE (TIDE) release 5.03.03 includes a Tibbo OS (TiOS) Simulator. The Simulator implements a virtual TiOS device incorporating virtual Ethernet interface, virtual EEPROM, virtual flash memory, virtual MD button, buzzer, and status LEDs, as w...
- 10 Dec 2016
Creating a GSM BTS

ranfred

using Pi 3 Model BBlade RF X115 Loading Ubuntu 12.04 hoping to get minimum 30 calls at once with all setup
- 9 Dec 2016