Review Blogs

Hands-On Evaluation of the ams OSRAM AS1170 Evaluation Kit for Embedded IR Applications

Arnovsharma

Introduction to the AS1170 Evaluation Kit Infrared LED drivers are a pretty big deal in the embedded world these days, particularly for things like sensing, lighting, and telling how close something is. Picking the right driver really changes everyth...
- 14 Jan 2026
Giga Oscilloscope

dougw

Intro The last demo I want to show in this road test is an oscilloscope application. The Arduino Giga with its display has the infrastructure to implement an oscilloscope function so I wanted to include a quick demo of this in action.. This demo simp...
- 2 Dec 2025
GIGA Paint

dougw

Intro This is one more little demonstration of how powerful the combination of an Arduino Giga and its touch LCD is. A very simple finger paint program can be implemented using only the hardware included in the road test kit. Here is a brief video d...
- 30 Nov 2025
GIGA MQTT Client

dougw

Intro For quite a while now I have wanted to explore the idea of using MQTT as a text messaging system, where users publish and subscribe to a topic of mutual interest - forming an interest group. The Arduino GIGA with its display is an excellent&nbs...
- 27 Nov 2025
STMicro, WURTH Elektronik and E14 Special Project - SensorTile Wireless Industrial Node

Robert Peter Oakes

STMicroelectronics, WURTH Elektronik and Element14 have created a Special Project which comprises an STMicroelectronics Motor Control Evaluation kit. EVLSPIN32G4-ACT Motor control Evaluation Board STLINK-V3SET Programmer/debugg...
- 26 Nov 2025
Arduino GIGA Touch Display HID Keyboard

dougw

Intro I have implemented lots of HID style peripherals in the past, but I have never made a capacitive touch keyboard HID before. The GIGA with its touch display means a touch keyboard can be implemented without any extra hardware, so that is what th...
- 17 Nov 2025
STMicro, WURTH Elektronik and E14 Special Project - Programmer

Robert Peter Oakes

STMicroelectronics, WURTH Elektronik and Element14 have created a Special Project which comprises an STMicroelectronics Motor Control Evaluation kit. EVLSPIN32G4-ACT Motor control Evaluation Board STLINK-V3SET Programmer/debugg...
- 12 Nov 2025
STMicro, WURTH Elektronik and E14 Special Project - Overview

Robert Peter Oakes

STMicroelectronics, WURTH Elektronik and Element14 have created a Special Project which comprises an STMicroelectronics Motor Control Evaluation kit. EVLSPIN32G4-ACT Motor control Evaluation Board STLINK-V3SET Programmer/debug...
- 10 Nov 2025
GIGA WAV Player

dougw

Intro Previously I investigated how to use the GIGA Display's microphone, but now it is time to explore the audio out put, This blog demonstrates how the Arduino GIGA R1 can read a WAV audio file from a USB memory device and play it using its DAC out...
- 2 Nov 2025
STMicro and Wurth Special Project - Intro

Robert Peter Oakes

STMicroelectronics and Wurth Elektronik in collaboration with Element14 has put together a development kit to evaluate including the addition of products needed to fully review the development/evaluation products. Wurth Elektronik and STMicro ar...
- 1 Nov 2025
Arduino GIGA Display Bundle - finally getting started

ralphjy

After a somewhat bumpy beginning, I am starting the roadtest. The first Arduino Giga R1 board that I received was missing the 24 pin display passthrough connector J5 on the right side below. The good news is that cstanton was ab...
- 26 Oct 2025
GIGA VU Meter and Spectrum Analyzer

dougw

Intro The Arduino GIGA R1 kit I am road testing has a display with built in microphone. To test the microphone I am starting with using it to create a VU meter (volume unit meter). All the hardware necessary for this VU meter is included in this plug...
- 26 Oct 2025
Arduino Giga R1 Display and Camera

dougw

Intro The Arduino Giga R1 has a camera connector, so of course I want check it out, so I purchased the highest resolution color camera I could find that had the correct connector. This is the Arducam B0462 which uses a 2 megapixel GC2145 camera senso...
- 20 Oct 2025
Arduino GIGA R1 - Display Images from a USB Memory Device with Touch Control

dougw

Intro This is the second installment of material that will contribute to a road test of the Arduino GIGA R1 and its LCD. The Arduino web site has an example of how to display an image stored on a USB memory stick, but it needs the IDE serial monitor...
- 20 Oct 2025
Arduino GIGA R1 Unboxing / Demo

dougw

This is the first installment towards an Arduino GIGA R1 Road Test. Intro The Giga R1 WiFi could be the most capable microcontroller so far, both from a computing capability point of view as well as an I/O point of view. On the computing side it has...
- 14 Oct 2025
Introduction of the B&K Precision DAS60 High Speed Multi-Function Recorder - unboxing

john.porter

B&K Precision DAS60 High Speed Multi-Function Recorder The B&K Precision DAS60 is the top model in the High-Speed Multi-Function Recorder category and positioned for applications in research, development, maintenance, and power monitoring....
- 5 Aug 2024
3D Printer Filament Calibration | Multicomp Pro 3D Printer Filaments RoadTest

Attila Tőkés

Hello Element14 Community! This is a short blog post, part of my MultiComp PRO 3D Printer Filament RoadTest, in which I will show how I usually calibrate new filaments for my 3D Printer. The 3D printer filaments I got for thi...
- 6 Jul 2024
Arduino Pro Nicla Voice ABX00061 Roadtest (DRAFT)

vlasov01

Introduction I was very exited and grateful to Element14 to get an opportunity to evaluate Arduino Pro Nicla Voice board. I wanted to use it as an input device for my local chat bot, so it can be always on, and be my digital companion....
- 21 Apr 2024
Random Reset of Arduino due board Rev 3

neerajrd82

Dear Community members, I m working on Arduino due board Rev 3 version. I have observed that this board gets reset in Random fashion . I unable to find out the reason. If Somebody who has worked more extensively than me on this board,might help...
- 14 Apr 2024
A Brief Review on Multicomp Pro MP730655 3.5-DMM - Blog 2(final)

flyingbean

Table of Contents True RMS Performances of MP730655 Conclusions True RMS Performances of MP730655 What means RMS? RMS = root mean square. I am not going to discuss the details of the math formula for RMS here. The basic idea of RMS is to calcula...
- 1 Feb 2024
A Brief Review on Multicomp Pro MP730655 3.5-DMM - Blog1

flyingbean

Table of Contents Out-of-Box Review Some Features and True RMS Performances of MP730655 Out-of-Box Review I recently received part of the prize from Element14 as the fifth prize winner in NI LabVIEW and Test Automation Beginner’s Course. Th...
- 24 Jan 2024
VectorBlox - Custom Networks on Polarfire Video SOC

dimiterk

In this last part of the Polarfire Video SOC review we'll develop a custom AI network from scratch to use the VectorBlox SDK and run on it on the Polarfire video board. Then we'll try to port a current state of the art like (SOTA) stereo networ...
- 7 Jan 2024
RAsynboard - Keyword Spotting - Out of box wireless edition

balajivan1995

Introduction In the previous blog we have seen the data coming from serial device. In this blog, we will see how to monitor the inference result through BLE communication. Receiving Methods Android mobile with Nordic Semiconductor’s “NRF...
- 7 Jan 2024
RAsynboard - Keyword Spotting - Out of box testing

balajivan1995

Introduction Thanks to E14, I received a RASynBoard dev kit as a part of Road-test. For a small product, this kit has so many features that cannot be covered in a single blog. So, I have decided to split the content into two blogs, each focusing on d...
- 7 Jan 2024
VectorBlox SDK setup

dimiterk

VectorBlox SDK Setup in this part we'll install the VectorBlox SDK and test the example networks on board. The VectorBlox AI accelerator makes use of an SDK that leverages the openVino framework to convert AI networks from floating point format desig...
- 19 Dec 2023