Legacy Personal Blogs

Please Note:

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.

4 Bit ALU

timswift

This is my 4 bit test ALU.It has 6 functions, Add with carry, Subtract with carry, Shift Right with carry fill, AND, OR, and XOR. While assembling the ALU I made some errors two of them being with the adder carry chain being wired backwards (MSB...
- 5 Nov 2016
New SHLR series of precision Bulk Metal Foil current sense resistors

DavidGazit

VPG Foil Resistors’ Powertron brand introduces the new SHLR series of precision Bulk Metal Foil current sense resistors — the industry’s first such device’s to combine low resistance down to 0.001 Ω, TCR to ±2 ppm/K, and high power ratings up to 50 W...
- 3 Nov 2016
PCB Designer Recognised by Electronics Industry with CID Qualification

angelina

Hoff said – “From a personal point of view this is an excellent qualification to have as a PCB layout engineer as the IPC is a recognised body all over the world and more and more people are specifying this as a pre-requisite for design work. This qu...
- 1 Nov 2016
4 Bit Accumulator - Adder

timswift

I have recently constructed a 4 bit adder and accumulator.The input of the adder is set by switches and the other input comes from the accumulator, the output is fed back into the accumulator.The contents of the accumulator is displayed on four LED's...
- 1 Nov 2016
Small Codebug Project for Halloween

e14 Contributor

#ShareTheScare this HalloweenVisit our Halloween space and find out how to win one of two Cel Robox 3D Printers. There are two ways to win:Build and document your past or present Halloween projects.Tweet your best engineering spook with #ShareT...
- 31 Oct 2016
The classification of the via holes - ALLPCB

bella_1018

Through hole generally divided into three categories: blind via, buried via and via hole. Blind via: located at the top and bottom surface of the printed circuit board, with a certain depth, for the inner surface of the line and below the line c...
- 31 Oct 2016
Custom Character Generator Desktop app for MAX7219 Based 8x8 LED Matrix

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watchIn this video i will show you a custom character generator for MAX7219 based 8x8 LED matrix. The app is developed using JAVA. If you are interested in making some updates to it you can cjheckout my repository on github. All links...
- 31 Oct 2016
Altium CS - Review Underway - Three board designs sent to OSHPark

antosh

Hi everyone, Quick update. I made two new PCB designs and updated one older design I created from Altium Designer. I sent all three designs to OSHPark this past week. Good news! Even though ...
- 30 Oct 2016
Hercules LaunchPad and GaN FETs - Side Note A: BoosterPack Layout - Custom KiCad Parts

Jan Cumps

I'm designing a BoosterPack to evaluate GaN devices with the help of a microcontroller.This double post (a+b) documents the PCB layout, specific for significant currency and high switching frequency. Custom Schematic Elements and Footprint...
- 30 Oct 2016
Hercules LaunchPad and GaN FETs - Part 3b: BoosterPack Layout - my version

Jan Cumps

I'm designing a BoosterPack to evaluate GaN devices with the help of a microcontroller.This double post (a+b) documents the PCB layout, specific for significant currency and high switching frequency. The SchematicThe EVM User Guide has...
- 29 Oct 2016
Hercules LaunchPad and GaN FETs - Part 3a: BoosterPack Layout - Reference Design

Jan Cumps

I'm designing a BoosterPack to evaluate GaN devices with the help of a microcontroller. This post documents the PCB layout, specific for significant currency and high s...
- 28 Oct 2016
Smart Mirrors & Progressive Web Apps

makerspender

Google Trends shows huge gains on Smart Mirrors and Progressive Web Apps both, so how about combining the two into an all powerful highly intelligent mirror with both offline and online functionality? This is what a team of developers and engine...
- 28 Oct 2016
Logic Level Shifter using 2N7000

oksbwn

The 2N7000 and BS170 are N-channel enhancement-mode MOSFETs used for low-power switching applications The two are nearly identical except that the leads are arranged differently and the current ratings are somewhat different they are sometimes listed...
- 24 Oct 2016
arcade still in progress

atillad

i got the arcade running and the screen set up now too paint the bezzle wich i am using a peace of insolating foam as the bezzle for.sorry for the graneyness of the picture my phones cammera's protective lens is scrached up.
- 24 Oct 2016
Alpha Electronics RW Series

DavidGazit

To provide competitive pricing for OEMs, the new Alpha Electronics RW Series of precision surface-mount Bulk Metal Foil resistors is manufactured in Japan in a fully automated process. http://bit.ly/2elYjh9
- 20 Oct 2016
Overview - Using MATLAB for Robocon-India 2017

infprasanna

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html A conversation with Robocon-India contestants!This is Prasanna Deshpande, I work as an Application Engineer at MathWorks Inc. For last few years I have loved the experience of working with Robocon India part...
- 17 Oct 2016
Some Thoughts on Counters

timswift

Up to now my counter design uses a master-slave SR flip-flop with asynchronous set and reset (separated from the main set and reset). The flip-flops are wired so that they form a T flip-flop with ...
- 11 Oct 2016
projects

atillad

i have multiple projects currently one of wich is a project others have don but. i havent worked on my self so here is pictures of the piboy project so far.currently the piboy project is on hold till i can get a 3d printer so i can make the case as f...
- 10 Oct 2016
DJ Mixer and PC - All in one solution

supanova

So I've been thinking about this project for some time and I think it's time to do it. I have an Allen and Heath Xone 43C Mixer. It's got an internal soundcard meaning I can connect four decks into it and use them to control music playing on a P...
- 4 Oct 2016
VR World

rsc

Once you put on a set of VR glasses it's not hard to "see" what the hype is all about.Looking at a picture is one thing, but VR "immersion" is quite an experience.The only problem I had with the Oculus was getting my glasses to fit in the devic...
- 4 Oct 2016
MSP432 Domotic Control Energia RTOS

martinvalencia

About the AuthorIt has been some time since I upload a blog, well my work in the mine is not leaving me much time to do projects.I hope to escape some of my work and share with you!! Best RegardsMartin Valencia About the projectUsing ...
- 4 Oct 2016
Tibbo Project System-based Office Aircon Controller Application

dmitry_slepov

The app allows you to manage traditional air conditioners that are controlled through infrared remotes. Designed for the office environment, the app relies on the ambient brightness (measured by Tibbit #28) to determine whether the aircon should be r...
- 3 Oct 2016
One Bit Transistor "Computer"

timswift

The computer is built from 70 NPN bipolar transistors.It has two one bit registers, a 4 x 4 bit ROM, and a two bit counter. The instruction format is as follows: | Halt | Opcode | Address 1 | Address 2 | If halt = 1 the instruction is execu...
- 2 Oct 2016
Create a Programmable Instrument with SCPI - Part 7: Talk to Hardware Registers

Jan Cumps

For a hardware evaluation project I'm working on, I want to create a device that can be controlled via LabVIEW.LabVIEW can talk to instruments using serial out of the box, and it knows how to talk Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (S...
- 30 Sep 2016
Create a Programmable Instrument with SCPI - Part 6: LabVIEW Integration

Jan Cumps

For a hardware evaluation project I'm working on, I want to create a device that can be controlled via LabVIEW.LabVIEW can talk to instruments using serial out of the box, and it knows how to talk Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (S...
- 27 Sep 2016