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.

Success (kinda) with RDS on the Si4703

packetgeek

Have had some initial success in decoding RDS from the Si4703 FM radio receiver. I can see 8-character chunks of the decoded output. Now I need to play with the timing and aggregate the output into a series of words on a single line.&nbsp...
- 14 Mar 2015
Remembering Ham swap meets, surplus electronics stores, and an old power supply project.

4ringfan

I thought everyone might enjoy this. When I was like 15 years of age, I got my Ham Radio operators license. I used to attend Ham Swap meets with a few of my buddies and their fathers who also had electronics interests. Monty's d...
- 14 Mar 2015
Make a Logic Analyzer from your Dev Kit Part 1: Arduino UNO

Jan Cumps

Yes, your Arduino Uno can be turned into a logic analyzer. Andrew Gillham has created a sketch that turns the UNO into a 6 channel SUMP compatible analyzer. The maximum sample speed is 4 MHz. You can get 256 µS worth of samples f...
- 13 Mar 2015
Atmel SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra Road Test -- Day 12

pettitda

This week I received the PDA TM4301 module that I ordered and hooked it up the board. Here's what it looks like with the qt5 demo:To get to this point, I had to reprogram the board with the .dtb which was configured to use the PDA display.&...
- 13 Mar 2015
CurSns4 – Amplifiers: Difference: Isolation.

peterjcs23

CurSns4 – Amplifiers: Difference: Isolation. 12 Mar 2015 Blog Index: http://www.element14.com/community/people/peterjcs23/blog/2015/02/27/current-sensor-index-and-references This blog, CurSns4, will look into:Current Shunt AmplifiersD...
- 13 Mar 2015
what do I do now george

bluidevil62

I have a KEPCO FMP24-0.45K and I'm getting nowhere with KEMPO SO DO YOU HAVE A IDEA OR A WAY TO USE THIS POWER SUPPLY
- 13 Mar 2015
Si4703 update

packetgeek

Have removed the wiringPi dependency for all code, even in the init function for controlling the RSET pin on the chip. As other people have indicated, working with RDS appears to be a bit more difficult than initially estimated. I have wh...
- 13 Mar 2015
Arduino rejuvenates an elderly Real Robots/Eaglemoss publications Cybot - Part 1

neilk

More years ago than I care to remember (probably 15), I foolishly subscribed to a magazine called Real Robots, published by Eaglemoss. Each monthly part included components which, when you had spent a small fortune buying the magazine, would let you ...
- 11 Mar 2015
How to Win the Hackaday Prize (and Other Design Challenges)

chriswhite

The Linker is a new blog from Christopher White and Elecia White, hosts and creators of the weekly embedded.fm podcast. The Linker discusses embedded software and hardware engineering, education, and entrepreneurship. The goal is to dive deeper into ...
- 11 Mar 2015
Wireless RS485 Remote Annunciator

s-fly

I install, test, and inspect a lot of fire alarm systems, mostly notifier, and have been thinking of a way to wirelessly control one of these panels using the rs485 annunciator port on the panel. After working in N.D. the last few months and constant...
- 11 Mar 2015
Why Does this even need a title?

e14 Contributor

I lost my care keys whilst sledding in the park. According to a friend, who is going a bit crazy this winter, my keys could be at the center of the Earth by now. (since the world is nothing but snow now)After 4 hours of metal detecting, and onl...
- 11 Mar 2015
Great design - Simin's Qiu water faucet

danteo

Simin Qiu's Swirl: source: https://www.behance.net/gallery/22614295/Swirllicense: Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported — CC BY-NC 3.0
- 10 Mar 2015
Bake Off!

redkcir

I found out we are having a Raspberry Pi BakeOff near by this Saturday! (Mar. 14th). This will be my first event and I am really looking forward to it. I found out only because of the weather we have been having here. I was checking to see if ...
- 10 Mar 2015
My first blog posting.

e14 Contributor

As I complete some projects I am working on I will be sharing the pics along with the program(s) as they are completed. I want to be able to share with the community as much as they have with me. More... soon to come :-)
- 9 Mar 2015
"We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched closely"

patkelly
- 9 Mar 2015
A short demo of the Maxim's ECDSA Stick

danteo

www.youtube.com/watch Maxim’s ECDSA DS28E35 + DS 2475: A duo that brings a ECDSA to 1-wirehttp://www.maximintegrated.com/en/products/embedded-security/authenticators/advisor/asymmetric.cfm Quick info links:Deterministic Usage of the Digital...
- 9 Mar 2015
Vintage Turntable repair: Can I fix a Perpetuum Ebner from 1958 - part 8 - Sample the Motor Speed with Microcontroller

Jan Cumps

What happened before: For almost a year I have a vintage turntable from Perpetuum Ebner at home.It's not mine. It belongs to someone that asked me to fix it. And it turned out that fixing the motor would cost too much.I asked the owner to co...
- 9 Mar 2015
How to Win the Hackaday Prize (and Other Design Challenges)

elecia

The Linker is a new blog from Christopher White and Elecia White, hosts and creators of the weekly embedded.fm podcast. The Linker discusses embedded software and hardware engineering, education, and entrepreneurship. The goal is to dive deeper into ...
- 9 Mar 2015
Vintage Turntable repair: Can I fix a Perpetuum Ebner from 1958 - part 7 - Make Speed Sensor from Scrap Parts

Jan Cumps

What happened before: For almost a year I have a vintage turntable from Perpetuum Ebner at home.It's not mine. It belongs to someone that asked me to fix it. And it turned out that fixing the motor would cost too much.I asked the owner to co...
- 8 Mar 2015
my own avr devolopement programming board

e14 Contributor

hai every one...i am new to element 14.. i am beginner to electronics.. i have a doubt ..i started to design my own avr devolopement programming board last week.. i soldered components and followed the site- www.robotplatform.com/howto/.....
- 8 Mar 2015
IS PI 2 Made in UK

e14 Contributor

I want to know whether all your products are made in UK
- 7 Mar 2015
Hi there

lokkytron

I was trying to figure out what to write about in this first moment. But I will use this space to say something about me. I am 40 years old, I am from Spain. Working in Sevilla as system infrastructure technician, living in Córdoba wi...
- 7 Mar 2015
Atmel SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra Road Test -- Day 8

pettitda

Today I was able to install one of the images that I built on Day 6. To do this I had to modify the scripts from the pre-built image that I downloaded. Here's the steps I followed: 1. make a new directory 'mybuild' and copy over the ...
- 6 Mar 2015
Introduction

redkcir

Hello there! My name is Dancing Rabbit (not really, but it's what the kids call me) and I am running a summer program for kids teaching robotics and intro programming. I use LEGO Mindstorms, Raspberry Pis and Arduinos in my program. I kno...
- 6 Mar 2015
Interests and Exploration for Raspberry Pi

randomfactor

I have several potential projects that I'm interested in exploring on a Raspberry Pi. Tor Node: I'd like to attempt to use a Raspberry Pi as a network bridge to route all my external IP traffic through the Tor network transparently. Bar Tri...
- 6 Mar 2015