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The Best RoadTest Reviews for 2024

rscasny

It's 2025 and a quarter of the 21st century has passed. AI is at the center of the tech stage, and as I write this, TikTok went off-line in the United States, shining a light a data security, privacy, and governance. This year, I expect the tech ind...
- 19 Jan 2025
The Best New RoadTesters for 2024

rscasny

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 ...
- 17 Jan 2025
element14 Community's Latest Roadtest Takes Advantage of Power Integrations' RDK-928 Reference Design Kit

Catwell

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...
- 21 Nov 2024
Get Your Hands on Arduino’s Plug and Make Kit with element 14’s Latest Roadtest

rscasny

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...
- 19 Nov 2024
Take Advantage of Vishay’s microBRICK Evaluation Board in element14’s Latest Roadtest

rscasny

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 ...
- 30 Oct 2024
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
How The RoadTest Program Has Changed Over the Years (2015 to 2023)

rscasny

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...
- 29 Jan 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
The Best RoadTest Reviews of 2023

rscasny

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...
- 20 Jan 2024
The Best New RoadTesters of 2023

rscasny

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-...
- 16 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
Polarfire Video SOC licensing and setup

dimiterk

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...
- 17 Dec 2023
Rohm buck converter Eval Kit BD9G500EFJ-EVK-001 part 3: online simulation tool

strb

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...
- 3 Dec 2023
Need some help: adapter mcc 172 hat to Hansford HS100 M12 accelerometer

TheRTmiller

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&#39...
- 28 Nov 2023
Rohm buck converter Eval Kit BD9G500EFJ-EVK-001 part 2: further testing and design procedure

strb

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...
- 26 Nov 2023
Seeking Electronics Tech and Engineers to Review Products by Top Companies

rscasny

We are seeking electronics techs, electronic design engineers, IOT engineers to review products by some of the top electronics and industrial tech companies today. We need them to review products that these companies launch to the market. We call the...
- 12 Nov 2023
Keysight E36731A: First look and Impressions

saadtiwana_int

I recently had the good privilege of being selected to receive the Keysight E36731A Battery Emulator and Profiler as part of Element14's roadtest program. Now, batteries might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but having spent some years worki...
- 7 Nov 2023
Rohm buck converter Eval Kit BD9G500EFJ-EVK-001 part 1: out of the box experience

strb

First of all, I want to thank element14 and Rohm for this great opportunity: testing the BD9G500EFJ-EVK-001 evaluation board and becoming for the first time a roadtester. What's special about the BD9G500EFJ-EVK-001 ? The BD9G500EFJ-EVK-001 is a...
- 3 Nov 2023