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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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) ...
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'...
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...
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...
This is a blog post in support of the RoadTest PicoScope 6424E Oscilloscope + Accessories . It is the sixth blog post in a series exploring the equipment in order to generate the content for the final RoadTest review. A less than ideal showing i...
This is a blog post in support of the RoadTest PicoScope 6424E Oscilloscope + Accessories . It is the fifth blog post in a series exploring the equipment in order to generate the content for the final RoadTest review. My application pitch was to...
This is a blog post in support of the RoadTest PicoScope 6424E Oscilloscope + Accessories . It is the forth blog post in a series exploring the equipment in order to generate the content for the final RoadTest review. This blog post will provide...
