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.

  • Firecrackers1

    drlucyrogers
    Chinese New Year Traditions vary, but a reunion dinner, red coloured decorations and firecrackers are all high on the Chinese New Year celebrations list. While dinner and decorations are available globally, firecrackers cause thousands of injuri...

  • Leakage current & current leaks – part 3

    mlease
    This post will focus on “current leaks”, the points of power consumption that are often designed into a device without much thought. In some cases they are things you have some amount of control over, in other cases they are things you have little co...

  • TI C2000 LaunchPad F28069: GPIO / LCD Control 3 PIN

    martinvalencia
    Warning: The video is in Spanish language on the grounds of appeal to Spanish-speaking public, I beg your understanding.ElectronAplica My first project with the # C2000 / F28069 LaunchPad, an LCD control with only 3PIN the microcontroller, a ser...

  • Bluetooth Low Energy, Three Ways

    chriswhite
    Written by Elecia White. In Episode 102, we spoke with Charles Lohr about the extremely cheap ESP8266 WiFi chip. He has a great write up on getting started. I haven’t gotten my hands on one yet but I sure want to. In the meantime, everyone ...

  • Talk SPI to EEPROM with Hercules Launchpad - part 4: First Trial on the RM46

    Jan Cumps
    My Peruvian mate and I purchased a set of 25LC256 SPI serial EEPROM chips.Our plan was to get them working with the Texas Instruments Hercules LaunchPad MK II.That was back in January. And then we stalled.Martin has restarted the exerc...

  • Buck up Young Person

    chriswhite
    A listener wrote in to the show Hello from Sweden! Thanks for a great podcast! I just found your show a couple of days ago and I love it, you guys are great! To the point, I'm doing my first year as an electrical engineering student, at the Sw...

  • EasyConfigure - Quick User Manual

    tomaja
    EasyConfigure project - Quick Manual.I'm posting this in personal blog because challenge deadline has passed.Please check the attached PDF document. UPDATE: reinholdbehringer Client Monitor applications (Win32, OSX and Android) are attached ...

  • Creating a datacenter cluster system

    russm24
    In today's setup, a cloud configuration is ideal for all kinds or purposes; whether you want to go for data storage, computing power or for network interaction. This tutorial of mine entails a lot of time on the user's end but is very efficient based...

  • Accurate low-current measurements with a scope

    mlease
    Last week was incredibly busy so I wasn’t able to put the time in to complete the third part of the “Leakage currents & current leaks” post. This will be a short post with a link to a white paper on our website for more details. Most enginee...

  • [updated] Webinars Video links List

    mudz
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  • CPLD Controlled Door Lock - Soldering the CPLD

    oldmanraskers
    I am now in the process of redesigning the circuit to accommodate a larger pin pitch CPLD, since soldering the 100 pin package proved very difficult and I trashed three of them - admittedly I was better each time but I still ripped up tracks, moved ...

  • Home Automation Using ESP8266 eBook

    RuiPT
    Hey there, I just wanted to share with you the latest Random Nerd Tutorials eBook. Let me know what you think.Home Automation Using ESP8266 eBook For the past few months I've been sharing tutorials and projects with the ESP8266 on my blog.A...

  • Cable Assemblies - Short Guide

    e14 Contributor
    Cable assemblies are needed in most industries and applications since many processes of an industry depend on high power requirements. A variety of types of cable assemblies is available in the market that can assist in different types of application...

  • My Parents were Makers before 1970

    Jan Cumps
    When you look at this pre-1970 photo of @me,you can see that I'm offspring of a maker family The late 60's were not really golden years (first house with warm water, bath, shower, flushing toilet in 1984), so a happy childhood depended on the ma...

  • CPLD Controlled Door Lock - First Stage Testing

    oldmanraskers
    I think this emoticon says it all! Today I got some parts, including the LD1086D2T33TR regulator chips. I connected ground to ground and 24V to the input pin and I expected 3.3V on the output pin but what I got was my bench power supply going i...

  • Piezo Technologies at Sensor+Test 2015

    piezotech
    Excited about the discussions we’re having about our piezoceramics and ultrasonic systems at Booth 12-264, Sensor+Test 2015 in Nurnberg, Germany. There is much to learn about measuring, testing, and monitoring at the conference this year. If Sensor+...

  • MCM Electronics Recap of Hamvention 2015!

    gsimerlink
    MCM Electronicsreturned for a second year to the annual Hamvention in Dayton on May 15-17! Hamventionis sponsored by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association and this year their theme is makers as they wholeheartedly welcome the maker community to t...

  • #KinetisConnects: Turn your curiosity into tomorrow’s greatest invention

    freescale
    This blog was originally published by Kathleen Jachimiak. product marketing manager for Kinetis MCUs, on the Embedded Beat.We all are born with an innate sense of curiosity about the world. A curiosity that parents and teachers know all too well as c...

  • Leakage currents & "current leaks" - part 2

    mlease
    Virtually all semiconductor devices have some amount of leakage current. It is interesting to note as operating voltages and device power consumption keep dropping, leakage current is becoming a larger percentage of a device’s power consumption. In m...

  • Changes in Tinkering

    chriswhite
    Posted by Elecia White.Two years ago, Jen Costillo, Star Simpson, and I put together a panel about how to start tinkering in your garage, specifically how to do engineering without company budgets. I recorded the session and made noises about startin...

  • BBB UNO Yun a step back into electronic engineering.

    amigaamigo
    Well over the past few weeks I've been a busy little beaver. It's been 12 years since I practiced electronics as a profession and with a few trips to radio shack I have started to build up a supply of parts and components that bring back fond memorie...

  • Testing XTRINSIC-SENSOR BOARD

    armour999
    Navigation System Part 1 I'm hoping to get the Microstack Board early this week. Part of my submission was to enable the tracking of the Pi Defender Rover by GPS and an inertial navigation system. The inertial navigation system is a system t...

  • Ardino Wars

    Jan Cumps
    I'm having a tough time with Arduino. Probably like a number of people these days. A: There's this sentiment of disgust with how SRL acts as a business partner. But the adult me knows what business is like sometimes. They're all adult. Both LLC ...

  • Getting silly with it...

    packetgeek
    Haven't had the time to play with some of the newly acquired chip sets but, while fixing a Gleebox configuration, did write a Gleebox interface to control the Si4703 radio.  (Why?  Don't know.  It was the middle of the night and I was ...

  • 3D printers?  What you should be ready for with a low end machine

    deepankarmaithani
    3D printing is really a great thing that has come up. It has benefited  makers who think and imagine of new things to bring their thoughts to life very quickly.Here i want to share about my experience with one cheap printer and one printer from ...