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.

  • CPLD Controlled Door Lock - Output Circuit

    oldmanraskers
    The weekend is over and I'm back to my design... I don't have much to say about the output circuit, except that I want to drive a bunch of 24V solenoids and provide an indication (via LEDs) when the output should be active. Below is the circu...

  • The Light-up NFC Bracelet Project: Stage 1

    charlotte_godley
    Recently I embarked on a new project: creating a bracelet of LEDs. But not just any old bracelet. This one has the ability to be changed using a mobile phone, using a technology I've written about in the past called NFC. Essentially the idea...

  • Debian 8 auf dem Raspberry Pi 2

    Anonymous-342052
    Hi zusammen,wenn jemand das neue Debian 8 ( Jessie ) mit dem Raspi testen möchte sollte folgendes durchführen.Zuerst den Download Mirror von Wheezy ändern. Diesen findet man unter :/etc/apt/source.listIn der source.list Datei den Eintrag ändern in : ...

  • Cypress USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Explorer Kit - Measure Data Throughput

    Jan Cumps
    Cypress released an evaluation kit for their USB 3.0 device EZ-USB FX3.Their Quick Start Guide steps you through a very useful exersise.You can measure throughput and compare USB 3.0 with 2.0.  Detecting USB Version The default applica...

  • Launchbox #3 - Continuity Check Circuitry

    e14 Contributor
    Hello everyone, I received this update on the remote rocket motor ignition project (Launchbox) from one of our engineers, Tyler Dean:  The primary goal of this past meeting was to reorganize the inventory in order to refine the assembl...

  • simplified gaming experience

    e14 Contributor
    now most people know about the gaming community out there, but some people aren't satisfied with these massive consoles we have to use, so why not make these consoles as small as the raspberry pi. the only thing is where will the DVD drive go, simple...

  • Ein Raspberry Pi als Server und Serviceüberwachung

    Anonymous-342052
    Hallo zusammen, heutzutage ist die Verfügbarkeit der IT Landschaft ein wichtiger Faktor geworden. Services, Server, Telefonsysteme etc. müssen immer verfügbar sein. Falls doch einmal etwas passiert, sollte man als Supporter oder auch als Dienstl...

  • CPLD Controlled Door Lock - Input Circuit

    oldmanraskers
    Input CircuitThe input circuit is very simple. Consider that 24V is present at the connector X1-1; this will allow 20mA to flow through LED1 and indicate there is an input present.  Approximately 2mA will flow via R2 and R3, thereby pulling the ...

  • TI MSP432 LaunchPad: Power Meter 6000 Samples/cycle

    martinvalencia
    Description MSP432The MSP432P401R LaunchPad enables you to develop high performance applications that benefit from low power operation. It features the MSP432P401R – which includes a 48MHz ARM Cortex M4F, 95uA/MHz active power and 850nA RTC operation...

  • Home temperature monitoring using openHAB on RaspberryPi, ESP8266 and HDC1000.

    e14 Contributor
    It's been awhile since I've wanted to start making my home "smart". I figured I could put some of my past projects together to build something nice, so I installed openHAB, a very known and powerful home automation software, on my raspberryPi.In...

  • Marking für einen LFXTAL016788

    Anonymous-342052
    Hallo, war auf der Suche nach ein Marking das ich auf einem 6MHz Quarzosillator LFXTAL016788 gesehen habe. Ich bin aus dem Code nicht schlau geworden und habe den Hersteller dafür kontaktiert. Auf dem QuarzOszi stand : KDN4ZNun IQD ( der Herstel...

  • Arduino GPS Tracking System

    benmatrix
    When your out and about it can sometimes be handy to create a log of where you’ve been, what speeds you have been doing and how long you have been travelling. For example monitoring your workforce while they are out and about in their company vehicle...

  • ROBOT OF THE WEEK: WEEK 1 - ECOBOT III

    e14 Contributor
    ROBOT OF THE WEEK: WEEK 1 - ECOBOT III  Ecobot III is the most developed robot in the Ecobot series. The idea behind the series? Autonomy through self-sustenance. It has been developed by researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. How does ...

  • Wilkie Robot - Progress so far!

    wilkiepj
    Hi, I am a first time poster here, and I wanted to create a blog about a project that I have always wanted to do, but my life wandered off in a different direction for a while! I have always been fascinated with robots and electronics, and even studi...

  • Capturing the 2015 eclipse with a TI Hercules LaunchPad

    Jan Cumps
    On Friday March 20, there was a solar eclipse in parts of our globe. I live in Ramsel, Belgium. On that location, the sun was blocked for 80%.I captured the event.picture from greatamericaneclipse.com, annotated by me. Although the sky was cloud...

  • Altium CircuitStudio Hangout

    JenCooke
    Yesterday I hung out with Lawrence Romine from Altium and Marisol Salgado from element14 to present the new CircuitStudio software.  You can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch In the Hangout viewers learnt: • How to b...

  • EnOcean Starter Kit - Teil 1

    Anonymous-342052
    Hallo zusammen, ich hab mir das EnOcean ESK300 Starter Kit ( 868 MHz ) zugelegt. Wollte einmal sehen ob und wie gut das Energy Harvesting funktioniert. Das Starter beinhaltet :BetriebsanleitungGateway USB 300 StickPTM 330 Energy Harvesting Übert...

  • AT&T Introduces UNIX

    bluescreen
    I came across this video from the AT&T archives today + felt it was just too good to keep to myself. :-) www.youtube.com/watch

  • Rasperry Pi - Netzwerkprobleme

    Anonymous-342052
    Hallo zusammen, ich hatte vor kurzem Netzwerkprobleme mit meinen Raspberry Pi 2. Habe dort Ubuntu MATE am laufen. IP bekommt er über DHCP. Leider gab es aber immer wieder Probleme mit der Netzwerkkarte, die beim Booten nicht erkannt wurde.Mit fo...

  • unhide hidden airwire

    bjgatesjr
    I mistakenly hide a wire (checked "Air wire Hidden" box).  How to fix this: Draw a polygon around the part with missing wire, then click on the polygon around the part. Then name the polygon the name of the missing wire or net name, and wi...

  • KEIL MDK Versionen

    Anonymous-342052
    Hallo zusammen, ich habe mich vor kurzem mit den KEIL MDK Versionen beschäftigt und möchte meine gesammelten Infos hier einmal weitergeben. Die KEIL MDK Versionen werden unterteilt in :MDK-Professional -- Genau wie die MDK-Standard Version ...

  • Formalized Synesthesia

    chriswhite
    Posted by Elecia White.Humans are fantastic model makers.I don’t mean those painstaking models where you cut and join until the results look like the box (though Chris did a great job on the metal Falcon). I mean the mental models we make for how thi...

  • Getting started with Raspberry Pi

    bhavikbhansali
     How to Install Raspbian on SD card ? here some easy step for installation of OS. BUT before installation some information is required on Raspberry pi.Raspberry pi is a credit card size computer. And we know that every computer want an Operating...

  • What would you like to ask the authors of "Art of Electronics"?

    bluescreen
    Hi Everyone. We're pleased to announce that we'll be interviewing Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, the authors of "The Art of Electronics," here on element14. The long-awaited 3rd edition to their classic text has just been released, and it is a...

  • Raspberry Pi 2 - Continued...

    Capper
    After finishing a bluetooth project that I've been working on for a few weeks, I managed to get a few hours of Pi-Play this afternoon.I set up LAMP server so I can transfer my mini-weather station data via the Pi 2.  All the updates went well,