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.

Tony's Random PYNQ adventures

grondak

Hey there,This is a blog of my personal experiences with PYNQ. I'll write Pynq from now on because all-caps is hard on my shift finger and four letters is too short to put on capslock and take it off. On to experiences. I listened to most of Get...
- 24 Aug 2020
Using DMA with an AXI stream on a CMOD-S7

tcmichals

Vivado example (Also includes other AXI slaves, PWM decode and DSHOT150 generation)For the past several weeks been working on using DMA (microblaze softcore ) with an AXI Stream interface connected to the FTDI serial interface. Here is a diagra...
- 24 Aug 2020
Participation and Surprises

Andrew J

I love surprises, who doesn't? Knock on the door and... cstanton and e14community has sent me a goody box as part of Element14's Member of the Moment. Totally unexpected and I'm genuinely touched to have been select...
- 20 Aug 2020
Alps Alpine's smallest force sensor in industry

alpselectric

Alps Alpine’s force sensor employs a piezoresistive method using Si semiconductor elements. They detect loads with a piezoresistive element manufactured using MEMS processes. The new HSFPAR007A is the smallest in the industry (according to Alps Alpin...
- 19 Aug 2020
Testing 2020-6

rachfasi

Testing 2020-6
- 19 Aug 2020
New FETs with lower Rds_on (and another FET)

wolfgangfriedrich

Time passes...I finished the design of Rev4 (and Rev3 in between) of my USB-C PD Sink. Most important improvements are a 2nd switch to select the current and new switching FETs . The new FETs have a Rds_on of only 9.5 mOhm (at Vsg = 4.5V), which cuts...
- 17 Aug 2020
Arduino Nano 33 IOT - Unboxing Video

meera_hussien

www.youtube.com/watch
- 17 Aug 2020
Product Review : Knob Potentiometer

meera_hussien

In the market, there any many types of a potentiometer. For a different application, we use different types of the potentiometer. Today we will look into the preset potentiometer with a knob. I like this the most becaus...
- 17 Aug 2020
SMD Component Box

aswinvenu

Today when I went to the supermarket to procure weekly grocery items. One small medicine box grabbed my attention.I was looking for an SMD component box for quite sometime. Either they are too expensive or not available due to shipment restrictions d...
- 13 Aug 2020
Pause in Production

saganefect

Just updating. I haven’t been able to get much done. My grandmother passed away as well as a close cousin. So I’ve been really tied up with this since the first Blog Post I made. Hoping to get back on track after the funeral tomorrow but then on the ...
- 12 Aug 2020
Using my Particle.io Xenon (nRF52840) boards with MBED Studio

BigG

Introduction Let’s get started with MBED Studio Moving beyond “blinky” Digital IO Analog IO's OLED display via I2C bus Video demo of examples Using the MBED BLE API with nRF52840 (Xenon boards) Peripheral Example Central Example O...
- 10 Aug 2020
Update for Waste Food Managment Blog #2

wtos03

Just post blog #2 for Waste food management project under sustain the world -Design chanllenge blogWaste Food Management Blog #2
- 3 Aug 2020
Multimeters - Some things are just worth bragging about

parachaser

I have had many test meters on my bench some good , some not so good.. I had come across the AstroAI DM6000AR . Read a lot of great things about it . Very low price tag ,so I thought I would check it out.PROFESSIONAL LEVEL features include Auto-Rangi...
- 2 Aug 2020
Inductance basic understanding

parachaser

Things Have really changed over the years as to how we learn electronics.. Years ago we did not have the same tools, knowledge, component availability that we have today. My interest began with a Fox hole radio I had to make by hand giving me a gener...
- 1 Aug 2020
A Solar Cell on a Very Sunny Day

dubbie

On 6th May'20 I blogged about the characteristics of a solar cell on a sunny day (Solar Cell On A Sunny Day ). Inspired by the Evaluation Kit for Epishine Light Energy Harvesting Blog by Jan Crumps (Solar Energy Harvesting with Epishine Flexible ...
- 31 Jul 2020
LoRa Rewards : Unbagging

dubbie

Recently, or was it some time ago now - time passes so quickly - I was pleased to be gifted a couple of Arduino MKR LoRa boards for asking a question during the recent LoRa Meets Arduino Webinar (https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/console/Event...
- 24 Jul 2020
Blog #1 Concept

wtos03

Concept of the projectf we can reduce the food waste from every house. It will reduce the cost of garbage management for the city. And if we can recycle food waste. it’s will improve the environment.This project “ Food waste recycle bin “ ...
- 23 Jul 2020
Getting kids coding with MakeCode Arcade

Fred27

One of the few upsides to this whole Covid-19 nonsense is that a lot of conferences were moved online. Instead of having to persuade your boss that you should take a week off and go to a conference, all you had to do was shuffle your work-from-home d...
- 21 Jul 2020
EDGE AI

pratyush_cetb

Living in an era of unprecedented booming artificial intelligence (AI) feels none less than storylines for science fiction movies. A tiny portion of recent successes of machine learning can be attributed to the advancements of algorithms in this past...
- 20 Jul 2020
3D Printed Arduino Logo Wall Tile

airbornesurfer

Inspired by scouting merit badges, I decided to start a tile wall to celebrate my various achievements or milestones or whatever. To celebrate building my first online course (Arduino For Kooks), I'm going to design a tile based on the Arduino Co...
- 9 Jul 2020
LT spice, loop gain, and an Electronic load

jeff_electron

I was recently working on an electronic load - a digitally controlled current sink which could draw a defined current from a power supply regardless of voltage. I had to draw a couple of amps from a 20V supply, with a large bandwidth and high accurac...
- 8 Jul 2020
Testing Release 2020-5 mine

rachfasi

Testing Release 2020-5
- 8 Jul 2020
PiFace package

sunnymike

I cannot get pifacedigitalio to upload. I get a "pifacedigitalio package not found" message. I have a RPi 3B with Rasperry Pi Debian OS, I update and upgrade and enter " sudo apt-get install python3-pifacedigitalio ". I have SPI enabled. A...
- 6 Jul 2020
How I Enroll for a RoadTest - Part 9: Case for Renesas RX65N, Trinamic TMC2300, Infineon Block Chain, STM32H7B3I DISCOVERY KIT

Jan Cumps

The element14 roadtests are a great way to learn new things. Whenever I see a test that interests me, I enroll.Success is not guaranteed. I've been selected for some, not for others. In this series I'll explain how I decide to enroll or not.I'll also...
- 4 Jul 2020
Unboxing Molex Antenna Sample Kit

dubbie

Recently I was pleased to be awarded one of the Molex Antenna Sample Kits given out for taking part in the Antenna Essentials and the kit arrive recently. I do enjoy attempting to unbox items such as this while videoing the process, although I do not...
- 3 Jul 2020