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  • All cleaned up and nowhere to go...

    jack.chaney56
    Simple holding place for the code to this point. Sort of a version management system if you think about it .I have tested the code here, and it does compile, and it does run on a 328P Arduino Nano (programmed with the 6pin programmer).The code turns ...

  • Clean Up Part 5: Need to communciate

    jack.chaney56
    I said I was going to have a main() in this segment, which is going to happen, but there needs to be some additional elements first.  Embedded systems have a general two step method for operation, initialize, and loop.  The initialize porti...

  • ELEC2645 Project - Week 20

    e14 Contributor
    ELEC2645 - Embedded Systems Project - 'Sensor-matic!' The aim of the project is to create an interface between a distance and a temperature sensor and an LCD screen.  Noise Cancellation In The SRF02 Sensor Purpose: The SRF02 Dista...

  • ELEC2645 Project - Specification

    e14 Contributor
    ELEC2645 - Embedded Systems Project - 'Sensor-matic!' The aim of the project is to create an interface between a distance and a temperature sensor and an LCD screen.  Project Aims and Objectives Aims: To develop a small, ...

  • Hello, I'm Sportay & 3D printing is my life

    e14 Contributor
    Hello and welcome to this blog. a) This will be a short message today. I am executive director as well as the majority of the roles in a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, charitable organization located in San Diego, CA, USA.I am a student working on my degr...

  • Rework: Replace a QFN IC

    Jan Cumps
    The GaN evaluation kit I have here at home died because of a power disruption @Cumps Castle.  There was a power failure in the perk of Brussels where I live. Power dropped from 240V to 110.And here's the rub: I was providing the differe...

  • Clean Up Part 4: Tools and technique

    jack.chaney56
    Two tools are presented in this installment. The first provides a base for understanding many of the methods I use when solving design issues. The second, hopefully, shows how to use tables to help eliminate calculation of complex operations. Ma...

  • High-Stability, Low-Noise Current Driver

    DavidGazit
    I'm pleased to announce that a new case study from Australia National University isnow live on Vishay Foil Resistors’ website. The latest additional to ourgrowing library explores how the university’s ResearchSchool of Physical Sciences relied on...

  • Clean Up Part 3: More tools

    jack.chaney56
    More interruptsThe first is the evil tempter. The timer interrupt is the place that can get the system in the most trouble most times without even giving it a second thought. The reason is timer interrupts are the most likely to become interrupt boun...

  • Mécatronique

    e14 Contributor
    Juste une petite vidéo qui permet de relativisé notre avantage technologique et qui donne du coeur a l'ouvrage ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka6nEMPqF0Y Si un bolivien autodidacte arrive à construire sont propre robot à partir des déchets qui la ...

  • Clean Up Part 2: First tools

    jack.chaney56
    Basic Tools:What is the source for tools? Usually it is something that is created to address a need. It is really hard to pull a nail out of a board by hand, but using basics of mechanics, things like the claw on a hammer use a lever to make the task...

  • Clean Up Part 1: Basic Ground Rules

    jack.chaney56
    Part of the clean up process takes the whole thing back to the beginning, assuming nothing, and only using baby steps.  Making a platform.Nothing ever gets built without the tools. Embedded applications are the same, but the tools are not hammer...

  • Ravi Namboori - DevOps & DevOps Principles

    e14 Contributor
    What is DevOps  DevOps is a concept dealing with, among other things: software development, operations, and servicesIt emphasizes communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology (IT) opera...

  • Eoliènne à axe horizontal

    e14 Contributor
    L'éoliènne à axe horizontal, ou l'éolienne de Darieus Un projet de développement en autonomie. http://www.onpeutlefaire.com Un modèle mécaniquement réguler permettant de limiter la partie électronique, a la technologie de l'information et p...

  • Interfaces for the manufacturing systems of the future

    helenchick
    Interfaces have been tasked with a key role in the evolution towards highly flexible production systems for Industrie 4.0. HARTING is offering scalable and therefore cost efficient interface solutions with new, implementable functionalities such as R...

  • ELEC2645 Project - Week 19

    e14 Contributor
    ELEC2645 - Embedded Systems Project - 'Sensor-matic!' The aim of the project is to create an interface between a distance and a temperature sensor and an LCD screen.  **Specification to follow...** Week 19: I made some ini...

  • 2645 Project - Piezoelectric Buzzer

    el14jw
    Buzzer Decision Hardware testing for the buzzer was more of a choice than checking if it actually worked. Getting it to work was fairly simple by just setting a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) pin to a certain frequency and duty cycle and listening...

  • How to build a Cell Phone

    e14 Contributor
    I am having a problem with my project as I struggling to build a dialer or a DIY Cell Phone. The reason why I am trying to build my own dialer is because I am trying to continue with my project as cheap as possible. PLEASE HELP..........................

  • Bluetooth

    chappy1978
    So I got in the mail on of these cheap Bluetooth units from China. I was thinking it would be great to add bluetooth to my Prinrbot. They arent as simple as I thought it might be.

  • Problems soldering micro usb connectors

    camuyano
    Currently I am working building a board that uses a micro USB female connector. In theory this was amazing until I had to hand solder those diabolic connectors. The pins are tiny and very short and that makes my success rate of soldering the connecto...

  • Clean up the mess

    jack.chaney56
    Tried to create a lesson for making an engine controller, and things got way out of hand, so I will be attempting this again, but try to maintain a better structure.Tools, the controller needs to be a controller first, so provide code for sensor inpu...

  • 2645 Project - Testing Hardware Connections

    el14jw
    Hardware ConnectionsThe first step to prototyping any kind of system is to set up connections from the microcontroller to each component and to check that each one works in the way you want them to. In the case of this project the components I need t...

  • IoT Kit

    e14 Contributor
    IoT Enablement Kit: PHYTEC develops and manufactures microprocessor-based solutions such as System on Modules, Single Board Computer and turnkey solutions for the industrial embedded market. Its cutting-edge products have been deployed in thousa...

  • 2645 Project - Game

    el14jw
    IntroductionThis blog post is dedicated to the first few steps on the way to coding a game using the FRDM K64F mbed microcontroller and a Nokia 5110 LCD display. The aim of this project is to create a fully functioning handheld arcade style game code...

  • Joined element 14 community.

    e14 Contributor
    I'm an electronics hobbies, currently working in a solar power project, looking to increase my knowledge of electronics and get some builds working