Review Blogs

RoadTests Are For All Skill Levels: Pick The One That Fits You Best

rscasny

I call a roadtest "a product review." That's how I describe it when I speak with our sponsors. And that's what the roadtest sponsors want: someone who can take a look at their product, experiment with it, and then write about those experiences and ma...
- 16 Nov 2020
Road Testing The PAN1780 Evaluation Kit (part 5) - Air Quality Dashboard via Web Bluetooth

parasquid

Introduction Parts and Software Web Browser and Javascript Libraries Particulate Matter Sensor Temperature, Humidity, TVOC, and eCO2 Sensors Display PAN1780 Firmware Build Sourcing Power from the Board's Rails Shield and Wiring As...
- 13 Nov 2020
Road Testing The PAN1780 Evaluation Kit (part 4) - Controlling a Smart LED Color Light Bulb with Web Bluetooth

parasquid

Introduction Parts and Software Web Browser Lightbulb / Neopixels PAN1780 Firmware Build Modifying the Lightbulb to run Neopixels Programming the PAN1780 Programming the Web Browser Demo Observations Conclusion IntroductionI'm...
- 4 Nov 2020
Creating a SYZYGY board - assembling the board and testing

Fred27

As part of my Eclypse Z7: Zynq-7000 SoC Development Board - Review road test, I decided to try creating my own SYZYGY peripheral board. I've already documented my research into the Syzygy/Zmod ecosystem here and quickly designed a board to be sen...
- 2 Nov 2020
Panasonic PAN1780 RoadTest: unboxing and Cold Start

jeff_electron

This blog post forms part of my road test review for the Panasonic PAN 1780 Bluetooth LE Eval Kit its a little self contained section, and also a bit of fun. What are we doing here? for the RoadTest, I wanted to try to replicate ...
- 1 Nov 2020
A Big Thank You to Our Element14 Roadtesters

rscasny

Part of my job at element14 is to manage the Roadtest program. That entails lots of every day activities such as speaking with suppliers about the products that they would like to roadtest or creating roadtest pages or even answering all kinds of que...
- 31 Oct 2020
MAX31889EVSYS Conclusion

hugohu

Here is a run up of all my thoughts and experiences during this RoadTest... The MAX31889 is quite a powerful chip, with great accuracy levels and precision. I was quite disappointed to see that Windows 7 was not supported even though the we...
- 26 Oct 2020
Picoscope 6424E Road Test - More decoding and some other stuff

michaelkellett

I2C Testing (continued from Picoscope 6424E Road Test - I2C Serial Decoding ) Keen followers of my Picoscope 6424E Road test blogs will have noticed that I rather messed up on the I2C decoding by having the 6424E connected to my PC via a USB 2 o...
- 24 Oct 2020
Enrolling RoadTests: 4 Days to Go for the Indoor Air Quality Raspberry Pi HAT Roadtest

rscasny

There are four days left in the enrollment for the IDT ZMOD4410 Indoor Air Quality Raspberry Pi HAT roadtest You can submit an application today by going here: https://www.element14.com/community/create-roadTestApp!input.jspa?containerID=1069&am...
- 23 Oct 2020
Road Testing The PAN1780 Evaluation Kit (part 3) - Home Automation via BLE Advertising and MQTT

parasquid

Introduction Parts and Software Sonoff S26 and Sonoff Basic R3 programmed with Tasmota Raspberry Pi 4B (1GB) with an External Bluetooth Dongle PAN1780 Evaluation Kit Espruino, Espruino Hub, MQTT, and Node Red Build LED Bulb Fan Pi 4...
- 23 Oct 2020
Announcement: Introducing the Reliable RoadTester Badge in November

rscasny

Hi All. I wanted to make a brief announcement about something we are rolling out in November. We will be adding a Reliable Roadtester Badge to all the other badges a member can earn on the element14 community. The badge is our way of ...
- 21 Oct 2020
Picoscope 6424E Road Test - I2C Serial Decoding

michaelkellett

Most modern scopes offer some kind of serial data stream decoding. Many supply it as a paid for optional extra although special offers where some decoders are bundled with the instrument are common.Pico have an unusual approach - all the serial decod...
- 21 Oct 2020
Enrolling RoadTests: 6 Days to Go for the Hioki Battery Tester

rscasny

There's six days to go for enrolling in the Hioki Battery Tester roadtest. You can submit an application by going here: https://www.element14.com/community/create-roadTestApp!input.jspa?containerID=1069&containerType=700&roadTestID=2227&...
- 21 Oct 2020
Enrolling Roadtests: 10 Days to go for the Arduino Portenta H7

rscasny

There's ten days to go for enrolling in the Arduino Portenta H7 Development Board roadtest. You can submit an application by going here: https://www.element14.com/community/create-roadTestApp!input.jspa?containerID=1069&containerType=700&am...
- 20 Oct 2020
Picoscope 6424E Road Test - SPI Testing with MSO Pods

michaelkellett

The 6424E can accept one or two TA369 Digital Pods to extend its capabilities by up to an additional 16 digital channels. This is a nice simple conversion from 4 channel analogue to 4 + 16 MSO functionality for which you need only to buy the Digital ...
- 20 Oct 2020
Enrolling RoadTests: 1 week to go for the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera

rscasny

There's one more week to go for enrolling in the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Roadtest. You can submit an application by going here: https://www.element14.com/community/create-roadTestApp!input.jspa?containerID=1069&containerType=700&amp...
- 19 Oct 2020
Road Testing The PAN1780 Evaluation Kit (part 2) - Throughput Comparisons

parasquid

Introduction and Disclosure Setup Adjacent (Horizontal, Vertical, and Side orientations) 1 Meter Apart 5 meters apart 1 Meter apart but with the board under test inside a plastic box 1 meter apart but with the board under test on top of m...
- 15 Oct 2020
PicoScope 6424E Oscilloscope + Accessories: Workbench Wednesday Practice

colporteur

Before tackling the actual review document for the PicoScope 6424E Oscilloscope + Accessories I was encourage by other blog posts about the 6424E to try another test. The motivation for this additional testing was after reviewing the the blog post Pi...
- 12 Oct 2020
Picoscope 6424E RoadTest - Testing a Transformer

michaelkellett

In my last Picoscope 6424E RoadTest blog I was testing a power supply which uses a hand wound custom transformer.shabaz asked about the transformer, and specifically how it might behave at lower frequencies (25kHz a rather than the 150kHz I tested at...
- 11 Oct 2020
Picoscope 6424E RoadTest - Testing a power supply

michaelkellett

In this blog I'm going to describe using the 6424E to look at various aspects of the working and performance of a switching power supply. The power supply has been designed for the Earth Resistance meter project which hangs out in Open Source Har...
- 9 Oct 2020
PicoScope 6424E Oscilloscope + Accessories: Linux

colporteur

This is a blog post in support of thePicoScope 6424E Oscilloscope + Accessories . It is the eight and final blog post in a series exploring the equipment in order to generate the content for the final RoadTest review. The operating system (O/S) ...
- 8 Oct 2020
Creating a SYZYGY board for the Eclypse Z7 - PCB design

Fred27

As part of my Eclypse Z7: Zynq-7000 SoC Development Board - Review road test, I'm hoping to investigate further into the Zmod add-on board ecosystem. Whilst Digilent call their board Zmods, these are based on the open SYZYGY specification. Let'...
- 8 Oct 2020
PicoScope 6424E Oscilloscope + Accessories: TA369 MSO Pods

colporteur

This is a blog post in support of the RoadTest PicoScope 6424E Oscilloscope + Accessories . It is the seventh blog post in a series exploring the equipment in order to generate the content for the final RoadTest review. When fitted with optional...
- 8 Oct 2020
Keysight InfiniiVision MSOX3034T RoadTest | Function Generator & Other Misc. Functionality

Attila Tőkés

Previous blog posts of my MSOX3034T Road Test:Keysight InfiniiVision MSOX3034T RoadTest | Unboxing & First Impressions Keysight InfiniiVision MSOX3034T RoadTest | Analog Specs & Basic Functionality Keysight InfiniiVision MSOX3034T RoadTest | Lo...
- 8 Oct 2020
Picoscope 6424E RoadTest - Probe Positioning System

michaelkellett

One of the optional extra supplied with the 6424E was the probe positioning system. This is a serious attempt to address the issue of multi channel board probing. I had a quick look on the web and found several companies offering probe props (r...
- 8 Oct 2020