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.

First talk on Raspberry Pi and hardware

camuyano

Last week with the help of local Infosec group we were able to put together a Raspberry Pi talk to the community. This was my first hardware talk and it was a blast. We talked about single board computers focusing on the Raspberry Pi and technical as...
- 1 Jun 2014
NXP 74AXP1G57 review

RWM

NXP was so nice to send me demo board of 74AXP1G57. It is configurable, 3-input digital logic device. Can act as AND, EXNOR, inverter, buffer etc. Power supply is in 0.7-2.75V range, however I checked also voltages below lower limit. Demo board has 4...
- 31 May 2014
LPC1500 Motion Control Kit - Post #1

terrydark

Well, I received my kit yesterday (Friday) and all appears intact according to the packing list so I guess this is it! I had a look at the webinar that I missed because I apparently don't know how to set a alarm! Not a good sign for someone who ...
- 30 May 2014
raspberry pi operating system

e14 Contributor

i just found bootberry and it works exelent
- 29 May 2014
just got my new raspberry pi

e14 Contributor

i just got my raspberry pi and i am so in love lol shout out to all those tech designers keep designing new technology
- 29 May 2014
TK1 relay alternative

e14 Contributor

Cephos has added a new relay module to its catalogue following recent requests. The Panasonic TK1 relay is now obsolete and difficult to obtain, the Cephos C-TK1 replacement relay module will be available in 5V, 12V and 24V coil voltages. D...
- 28 May 2014
raspberry pi

e14 Contributor

tommorow my raspberry pi is coming in i cant wait gonna have so much fun with it
- 27 May 2014
Dexi Numeral System

fahrenheit_98

It is well known that we use the Decimal Numeral System just because we have ten fingers. It is also well known that the numeral systems with base two and multiples of two make the calculations much easier, compared to the use of the decimal sys...
- 27 May 2014
profile

fahrenheit_98

Who I am I am a senior Electronic Engineer with a long experience in the electronics field (I built my first radio equipment in 1959, when I was seven years old). I took my first steps in a tv and radio repair laboratory, under the ...
- 27 May 2014
drone r/c

e14 Contributor

why note take a raspberry pi and code it to control a r/c car,helicopter,boat,tank.or a real car
- 27 May 2014
Poll

edumotion

Looking forward to your entries and opinions What to do next ?
- 24 May 2014
Bio

edumotion

To start with some biographics ... I've made my master in medical Computer science in the early nineties. But at the very first beginning I started with building electronic dices, blinking red leds, 7400 gates and Computers like apple ][ and C64...
- 23 May 2014
Vintage Philco AM Radio Restoration

brickbricker

Welcome to my first blog post! Constructive criticism is encouraged. For my first post here, i will be talking about an old AM radio my dad gave me to fix up. It works, but the sound isn't that great. Sure, you cant expect hi fi from such an v...
- 23 May 2014
Elecia White on the Life and Times of a Consulting Engineer--The element14 Interview

sophikravitz

This is Elecia White, embedded systems consultant with her own company, Logical Elegance. Elecia works on all kinds of projects containing software and hardware. She authored the O’Reilly book Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Softwa...
- 21 May 2014
Raspberry PI experts consultants required for commercial project

e14 Contributor

Hi there, I am looking for expert(s) that have worked with, or are currently working with Raspberry PI, to work on a commercial project initially on a casual hourly basis. You will need to be familiar wi...
- 20 May 2014
Power Factor Correction Workshop - In July

e14 Contributor

Learn how to design analog and digital power factor correction systems from a ground up quickly and easily with this in-depth laboratory based design workshop. The 3 workshops we have available in Garching, Munich area, are completely flexible and at...
- 20 May 2014
Empty Capacitor Bank

e14 Contributor

Hello everyone. I am in the process of building a coil gun, and I am having problems with my capacitor charger. Would a voltage multiplier circuit serve the same purpose as a capacitor bank charger? I have a schematic for a capacitor bank charger, an...
- 19 May 2014
[TI Connected Launchpad] 1. Turn On, Tune In, Boot Up -- CLP+Energia+Ubuntu!!!

vish

In this post, I'm going to connect my Connected Launchpad to my Ubuntu 14.04 Notebook.I hope if you know about Launchpads, you would probably be heard of Energia. Or if you are a beginner to the launchpad, then you would have used one. For the people...
- 19 May 2014
Clase 1 de Eagle

e14 Contributor

Pregunten. Empezamos con la creación de un esquema. Comandos, facilidades de manejo, rápidez para convertirte en un experto del diseño. Edición de símbolos.
- 16 May 2014
Consumers and the Internet of Things

elecia

At EELive this year, I gave a talk entitled What marketing won’t tell you about the Internet of Things. While the talk title is link bait, the presentation is more about how technology is not serving consumers and how to start fixing that. A few peop...
- 15 May 2014
why not follow Electrolube on Twitter...

karenharrison

https://twitter.com/electrolube Electrolube, the solutions people are now up and running on Twitter, another place to engage, find out facts and product news.
- 15 May 2014
[TI Connected Launchpad] 0. The packet arrives!!!

vish

First of all, special thanks to element14 for giving me this opportunity. From the day I first came to know about TI's Connected Launchpad, I really wanted to have one. And now, I'm holding one in my hands. Thanks a lot!! Today morning, I got t...
- 14 May 2014
Electrolube Announce Senior Appointment for Conformal Coatings Division

karenharrison

Electrolube, the manufacturer of specialist chemicals for the electronics, automotive and industrial manufacturing industries, has today announced the appointment of Phil Kinner as Global Business / Technical Director for the company’s international ...
- 14 May 2014
Industry First Shapeable LED Backlight

dlaegeler

Lumex announces the global launch of its first-in-the-industry QuantumBrite Shapeable LED Backlight . With the new shapeable LED backlight, holes can be cut into the backlight in virtually any shape (for example, to allow space for a switch or other ...
- 13 May 2014
7-Segment LED Displays Offer Market-Leading Temperature Range

dlaegeler

CAROL STREAM, IL –Lumex announces the global launch of its QuasarBrite High-Temperature Surface-Mount Seven-Segment numeric LED Display technology capable of providing bright, crisp display performance in market-leading temperature ranges up to 105°...
- 13 May 2014