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.

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- 20 Dec 2014
question

e14 Contributor

which is better using a 555 timer or a 556 timer to make a pulse width modulator ? -
- 19 Dec 2014
What is Antenna Diversity - The Basics

ndutton

Environmental factors cause the vast majority of problems people experience when using wireless radio technology for communication. Designers also often experience difficulties reproducing environmentally related issues because the environment is con...
- 19 Dec 2014
Increasing Linux Swap with a File

cstanton

I've been setting up a spare computer so that I can cross-compile system images for various platforms I have. The spare computer really isn't all that powerful, but I have zero issue with just leaving it to churn away until it's done (maybe I should ...
- 17 Dec 2014
Almost there...

packetgeek

Have been making my way up the food chain (processor-wise), figuring out what's the smallest system that'll run my home-grown jukebox. This week, I was able to squeeze in a bit of time in on the Cubietruck (aka Cubieboard v3). While I am ...
- 14 Dec 2014
TI Hercules LaunchPad - test the CAN with a poor man's CAN driver

Jan Cumps

I've been working on a breadboarded BoosterPack to test the CAN modules on the TI Hercules LaunchPad, without transceivers or real CAN bus.This is inspired by the following Siemens application note AP2921 On-Board Communication via CAN without Transc...
- 13 Dec 2014
Where Dinosaurs Are Born, China #BlackgangPi3

drlucyrogers

Dinosaur skeletons, dinosaurs being made and controlling dinosaurs ... I, Lucy Rogers, was invited to visit an animatronic dinosaur factory in China - the factory that supplies the dinosaurs for Blackgang Chine Theme Park on the Isle of Wight.&n...
- 12 Dec 2014
Will Artificial Intelligence Really Destroy the Human Race?

bluescreen

Earlier this month, celebrated astrophysicist Stephen Hawking told the BBC that artificial intelligence could bring about the end of the human race: "It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate... Humans, who ar...
- 12 Dec 2014
First MDF CNC 3 Axis or how not to build a CNC

binarygenius

This machine was more of a learning bug finding machine and here is a little about what i plan to accomplish with this machine. I am hoping to end up with a 5 Axis CNC machine that will have a cutting area of about 1300mm x 1000mm x 240mm. I will fir...
- 10 Dec 2014
6 Decade Resistor Substitution Box

binarygenius

I have finally got round to start building the rest of the tools needed for my electronics workshop. I built this Resistor Substitution Box using 6 x 12 Pole Rotary Switches, 6 x Chicken Head Knobs, 1% 1 Watt Metal Film Resistors, 2 x Banana Sockets ...
- 9 Dec 2014
Next ESCO counterfeit awareness seminar

RogerUKEA

Onine booking is now available for the next ESCO counterfeit awareness seminar, which will be held at the 1VS Conference Centre in Victoria Street, London on Thursday 19th February. This seminar will build on previous seminars by providing an up...
- 9 Dec 2014
Magnificent Seven - November is award winning month for element14

JenCooke

November has been element14’s most successful month with seven award wins across marketing, product, distribution and sales! Electronica Supplier AwardsNovember was electronica month and at the event in Munich, Germany we won three supplier awar...
- 9 Dec 2014
Dyman Associates Insurance Group of Companies: Versicherungsbetrug

e14 Contributor

Was ist Versicherungsbetrug? Unternehmen, Agenten, Adjuster, Ärzte und Krankenhäuser oder Verbraucher begehen Versicherungsbetrug, wenn sie lügen oder falsch Fakten zum eigenen finanziellen Vorteil. Da Unternehmen die Kosten für die Ansprüc...
- 9 Dec 2014
Raspberry Pi based low cost computer

andrewk182

Been working the past many many months on a linux based os for the Raspberry Pi with a little of a MAC OS feel so far so good. Using Linux Mint as a bases to it work's good so far. Still only in beta stage hoping I'll putting it out soon for all to e...
- 9 Dec 2014
EFM32™︎ Zero Gecko: Encryption with AES

Jan Cumps

I hadn't reviewed the encryption module of the Zero Gecko microcontroller yet. The Zero Gecko processor family supports an accelerator for encryption and decryption. Simplicity Studio comes with application note AN0033 and example projects.T...
- 8 Dec 2014
Norvell Group and Associates Manufacturers Review: About Digital Power Corporation

e14 Contributor

Das Unternehmen Digitale Power Corporation entwickelt, produziert und vermarktet flexible Stromversorgungslösungen für die anspruchsvollsten Anwendungen in der Telekommunikation, Medizin, Industrie- und Militärbereich. .Das Unternehmen wurde 19...
- 4 Dec 2014
Construction of a Lie Detector

ncubez

Lesson 1:This was a first practical lesson done at Premier Farnell in Leeds as an introduction to the new student on how to build a simple circuit using a certain number of components given. It was also an introduction on how to use the Soldering equ...
- 3 Dec 2014
2-in-1 Raspberry Pi Power Supply

toxxn

To put it simply, I absolutely love the Raspberry Pi. There is almost an infinite amount of things you can do with it and it seems almost everyday there is someone, somewhere, doing something new and innovative with it. When I first heard about the R...
- 2 Dec 2014
EFM32™︎ Zero Gecko Starter Kit w/ Sensor Card: logging to SD card

Jan Cumps

Inspired by the Zero Gecko Starter Kit roadtest review of baldengineer , I'm going to try if I can get the weather station example log its data to an SD card.The example shows its data to the lcd screen by default. I wonder if it's possible to ...
- 1 Dec 2014
The Woo Group RBC Wealth Management Hong Kong USA: RBC Blue Water Prosjekt

e14 Contributor

RBC Blue Water Prosjekt kunngjør frist for 2015 Ledelse og fellesskapstiltak Grants. TORONTO, 14 november 2014 - Det kan være at ekstra par øyeblikk i dusjen eller kjører en halvfull oppvaskmaskin, faktum er, mange av oss tar ferskvann for gitt....
- 29 Nov 2014
Getting Started with Cheepest PSoC4 - CY8CKIT-049 42xx Prototyping Platform - PART ZERO - SECTION 2

gsgill112

The Board The 4$ Dev Kit is based on Cypress CY8C4245AXI SoC, and have a User LED, Current Measurement header, Boot/User Switch, ~40 GPIO's, A usb to UART/I2C/SPI convertor with GPIO's all in a breadboard friendly Format.[Refer image ab...
- 28 Nov 2014
Getting Started with Cheepest PSoC4 - CY8CKIT-049 42xx Prototyping Platform - PART ZERO - SECTION 1

gsgill112

Hi Everyone, Welcome to my Getting Started with Cheep (4$) Cypress PSoC 4 - CY8CKIT-049 prototyping platform Series. In this post I will talk about setting up the Environment for PSoC4- CY8CKIT-049 42xx prototyping platform, getting and setting ...
- 28 Nov 2014
Feels like Christmas!

markvenn

Today I had a parcel from Farnell / element14. Nice parcel, next day delivery as usual and it looked the usual, not very exciting box; but I knew what goodies lay inside for me.Inside the delights waiting my attention are lovely new Raspberry Pi B+ w...
- 26 Nov 2014
Q&A with Mike Ford, Business Development Manager, Temp-Flex®︎

MolexConnectors

Hosted by Anthony Kalaijakis, Medical Strategic Marketing ManagerQ: The medical device market is looking for increasingly smaller interconnects and at the same time driving higher wire counts; how can Molex contribute to this challenge?A: Good questi...
- 25 Nov 2014
LED Xmas Tree Project 2

benmatrix

It’s been nearly a year since my last blog on creating a simple LED based Xmas tree so thought it was time for a re-visit. Xmas Tree Blog 1 This time instead of cobbling together a section of breadboard I decided to go with a more professio...
- 25 Nov 2014