At the end of the week, I'm retiring.
What can I say to express my appreciation for nearly 9 years on the community team and managing the roadtest program? It's been a wonderful experience to end my career. I've found my job both interesting an...
Analog Devices’ TMC9660-3PH-EVKIT Evaluation Kit is designed to gauge the capabilities of the TMC9660 motor controller and gate driver IC. The kit allows users to drive motors straight out of the box while providing full register functionality ...
ROHM's recently released LogiCoA001-EVK-001 power supply platform is aimed at small to medium industrial and consumer equipment that ranges from 30W to 1kW. The solution takes advantage of both analog and digital technologies to provide the funct...
New roadtesters come from a variety of backgrounds: professional engineers, makers, STEM/parents, graduate/undergraduate students, teachers, researchers, academics, and many more.
Whether you are an experienced engineer or an electronics ...
2023 went by so fast, I can barely believe we are already into 2024. I hope all of you have had a successful 2023. Just a few years ago, I would be writing you from home, but now life and work are pretty much back to normal. I am writing this r...
Power Integrations' RDK-928 Reference Design Kit is a novel 60W USB PD 3.0 power supply circuit designed to increase the efficiency of flyback power converters for power supplies. The RDK-928 circuit is a combination of power technologies that includ...
Earlier this year, Arduino launched its Plug and Make Kit designed for people looking to step into the maker scene or the engineering fields. One of the largest drawbacks many people have getting started with electronics projects is soldering, a skil...
The element14 Community is offering another roadtest for community members and looking for some engineers and makers who would like to push the limits of their POL converters with increased power density and efficiency using Vishay’s ...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
A new year has begun!
I thought 2023 was a great year for the RoadTest Program. We roadtested a lot of new and interesting products, and the roadtest review completion rate was very good, about 86 percent. I want to thank all the members who have par...
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...
2023 went by so fast, I can barely believe we are already into 2024. I hope all of you have had a successful 2023. Just a few years ago, I would be writing you from home, but now life and work are pretty much back to normal. I am writing this r...
One of the questions I often receive as Roadtest Program Manager is about new roadtesters. Do I use new roadtesters? Of course I do. element14 promotes our roadtests in newsletters, social media channels, pre-roadtest discussions, and word-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This part of the Polarfire SOC Video Kit review will detail the installation of the required software for working with the Polarfire Video SOC development board. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS was used for all the development work however similar steps can b...
This is the third and last blog post before the final review for the Rohm BD9G500EFJ-EVK-001 RoadTest. Here, I'm going to explore one of the many tools Rohm has available on its website to assist with the design process.
To get access, you have t...
Hello everyone,I am having a very similar problem to this post:Need Some Help: Adapting 2-pin Mil-C5015 to BNC plugBut unlike rscasny, I am planning to use Hansford HS1001005401 accelerometers, because I have a lot of these flying aroundand I don'...
This is the second part of the Eval Kit BD9G500EFJ-EVK-001 RoadTest. If you have missed the first blog, you can check it out here.
In this blog I'm going to design a buck converter to provide power to one servo. Input power is supposed to be 4s L...
