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.

New Member March 2015

midlandernc

I am basically a newbie to development boards and programing in general. I have the "Hello world" thing down in old Basic and C Turbo, library's, as well as debugging and compiling, but I am endeavoring to learn more modern programing la...
- 6 Mar 2015
Some notes regarding product electrical safety (LVD) assessment

mistertee

Any engineer designing products which uses mains voltages should have a good idea of what is involved in product safety. If one is going to use a test house for assesment of the product then having a good idea of what is involved will help reduce fai...
- 6 Mar 2015
Denford NovaTurn Servo retrofit AMD Gizmosphere iBOB2 PCIe x1

embeddedcnc

Hello all!! I have been very busy working on several projects, iBOB1 and iBOB2 break-out boards. I have started retrofitting a Denford NovaTurn CNC Lathe. I will be replacing the Sanyo Denki stepper motors with Yaskawa AC servos 100W. The control wil...
- 6 Mar 2015
Atmel SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra Roadtest -- Day 7

pettitda

Today I was able to transfer over the hello world application that I built and run it! The issue I ran into was that the image that shipped on the board would not let me connect through rlogin, ssh, sftp, scp, or any other port. It refused...
- 6 Mar 2015
Raspberry Pi 2 Road Test Application Accepted - the Way Forward

e14 Contributor

So this morning I checked my personal email, as opposed to my work email, and was surprised to see a message from Christian DeFoe saying that I have been selected to Road Test the RPi 2 and that it is being sent my way. For those that are curio...
- 5 Mar 2015
This is what i like to do

e14 Contributor

i have worked with the raspberry pi and i have done all this this is my first time doing this and i love to do this love using command line like command prompt (windows) and terminal (Linux) Attachments:community.element14.com/.../Setting-up-NOS.pdfS...
- 5 Mar 2015
Solving a Different Problem

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 ...
- 4 Mar 2015
TI Hercules LaunchPad Tipo 2: Electromyography Signal DSP part 2

martinvalencia

TI Hercules LaunchPad Tipo 2: Electromyography Signal DSP part 1 At this stage of the project, implemented by fourier analysis for muscle bioelectrical signal, its bandwidth is 1.5 kHz spectrum view, theoretically are 3300Hz but the value varies...
- 4 Mar 2015
Atmel SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra Road Test -- Days 4, 5, and 6

pettitda

Over the last three days I've set up a virtual machine (VirtualBox) running Ubuntu 14.04LTS, pulled the Yocto/Poky source, and created the build environment using the instructions listed at PokyBuild < Linux4SAM < TWiki. All of this went ...
- 3 Mar 2015
Vintage Turntable repair: Can I fix a Perpetuum Ebner from 1958 - part 6 - Speed Adjustment with Variable Duty Cycle

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...
- 3 Mar 2015
Are there any companies that make a custom adhesive overlay?

4ringfan

I have an old intra-oral camera box that I'm looking to convert into a bench power supply. It has a front panel PCB with some buttons and LEDs that I may re-use. The metal has cut outs for the buttons and then it has a plastic overlay...
- 3 Mar 2015
Project Flor(a) piano: part 2

charlotte_godley

In the previous post, we decided to start making a floor piano using a FLORA and some other bits. Here we're going to improve on the code and make it more permanent!Step 3: improving the codeBefore we go any further into making the sensors a permanen...
- 3 Mar 2015
Project Flor(a) Piano

charlotte_godley

This month I started working on a new project I'm naming Flor(a) piano. I don't know about older generations, but part of my childhood was dancing around on one of these:Also known as a child's floor piano. When I saw a couple of tutorial...
- 3 Mar 2015
3d viewer & download links created for many GCT parts

LaurenceHillGCT

As of Feb 2015 many GCT products link from Farnell, Newark & Element 14 have links to GCT's 3D model viewer page. GCT's range includes the following connector types: USB, FFC, SIM, Micro SD and board to board. &nbsp...
- 2 Mar 2015
CurSns3 – Current Shunt Test. Big errors are posible!

peterjcs23

CurSns3 – High-Side Current Shunt Test.02 Mar 2015 This section, CurSns3, will test a High-Side Current Shunt to demonstrate:High common mode voltageBig error (x100) using 2-wire connectionWhy you should use 4-wire connection whenever possibleT...
- 2 Mar 2015
K64F With ARM MBED Part 1 getting started

colin_meikle@mentor.com

Introduction to Mbed EnvironmentMbed is a complete environment for developing ARM controllers. One of the main attractions of MBed is you can get started very quickly and you can put together working prototypes extremely quickly. The Mbed Hardware pl...
- 1 Mar 2015
TI Hercules LaunchPad Tipo 2: Electromyography Signal DSP part 1

martinvalencia

Electromyography (EMG) is an electrodiagnostic medicine technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced byskeletal muscles.[1] EMG is performed using an instrument called an electromyograph, to produce a record called anelectr...
- 1 Mar 2015
Camera tracking project

e14 Contributor

benheck did a fantastic job with the Camera tracking project. I have come away with a new respect for what 3 D printing can really do. Great job Ben
- 28 Feb 2015
Vintage Turntable repair: Can I fix a Perpetuum Ebner from 1958 - part 5 - Yes I Can

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...
- 28 Feb 2015
Si4703 code getting better

packetgeek

Finally had time to work on the code again. Figured out last night that the registers are big endian, while the code that usually processes the data is little endian (for some unknown reason). To tell the truth, this chip set could probab...
- 28 Feb 2015
µBlock ate my follow button.

4ringfan

I'm a chrome browser user. Probably because, well, IE just makes me feel dirty. I have normally found that Chrome coupled with µBlock provides me with a fairly pleasant, ad free, "happy" browsing experience. Tonight, however, I noti...
- 28 Feb 2015
Current Sensor Index and References

peterjcs23

Index of blogs about current sensors. Latest additions:CurSns4. Amplifiers: Differential: Isolation. Current shunt amplifiers.Index:CurSns1. Current Sensors, Introduction http://www.element14.com/community/people/peterjcs23/blog/2015/02/21/cur...
- 27 Feb 2015
[FRDM-K64F + Kinetis Design Studio (KDS)+Processor Expert(PE)] Accessing SDCARD through K64 board

bheemarao

Here is a project created to interface and explore how to access the SD-Card slot available onboard with K64F freedom board. Before we start this project below are the pre-requisites:KDS software tool from FreescaleFRDM-K64F Freedom development board...
- 27 Feb 2015
What are we doing tonight Brain?

e14 Contributor

The question Pinky would ask Brain whose reply was "Take over the World, Pinky". From all of the post I have seen on this site, it is full of information that I find useful and as a hobbyist has given me ideas for projects. Unlike Brain, However I am...
- 26 Feb 2015
Vintage Turntable repair: Can I fix a Perpetuum Ebner from 1958 - part 4 - Hercules LaunchPad Enhanced PWM try-out

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...
- 25 Feb 2015