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  • Egg cooking - energy harvesting

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  • Energy Micro Development on Linux

    Running EM and Segger tools on Linux. Using eACommander, eAProfiler, Code::Blocks
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  • Moto X Active Display feature using Proximity Sensor on EFM32 Zero Gecko Starter KIT

    This is an experiment to simulate Motorola Moto X active display feature on EFM32 Zero Gecko KIT. ;)
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  • Environmental and Biometric Sensor Puck with Bluetooth Low Energy and iOS/Android App

    Environmental and Biometric Sensor Puck with Bluetooth Low Energy and iOS/Android App Manufactured By: Silicon Labs Part Number: SENSOR-PUCK Buy Now The SENSOR-PUCK provides a convenient development…

  • EFM32 Gecko Starter Kit

    EFM32 Gecko Starter Kit Manufactured By: Silicon Labs Part Number: EFM32-G8XX-STK Buy Now The EFM32 Gecko Starter Kit is a platform for rapid prototyping of ultra low power microcontroller…

  • Starter Kit for the EFM32 Tiny Gecko 32-bit microcontroller

    Starter Kit for the EFM32 Tiny Gecko 32-bit microcontroller Manufactured By: Silicon Labs Part Number: EFM32TG-STK3300 Buy Now The EFM32TG-STK3300 is an excellent starting point to get familiar…

  • Starter Kit for EFM32 Leopard Gecko 32-bit Microcontrollers

    Starter Kit for EFM32 Leopard Gecko 32-bit Microcontrollers Manufactured By: Silicon Labs Part Number: EFM32LG-STK3600 Buy Now The EFM32LG-STK3600 is an excellent starting point to get familiar…

  • Starter Kit for the EFM32 Giant Gecko 32-bit microcontrollers

    Starter Kit for the EFM32 Giant Gecko 32-bit microcontrollers Manufactured By: Silicon Labs Part Number: EFM32GG-STK3700 Buy Now The EFM32GG-STK3700 is an excellent starting point to get familiar…

  • Smart Energy Harvesting using LTC3588 and EFM32 Cortex-M3 microcontroller

    A short demo using LTC3500 piezoelectric energy harvesting power supply and the energy friendly EFM32 Cortex-M3 microcontroller to create a wireless sensor node with LCD display, acquiring data from a 3-axis accelerometer and transmitting data ove...
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  • Silicon Labs: EFM32 Happy Gecko and MBED

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    In this webinar Matt Saunders will discuss Silicon Labs' EFM32™ Happy Gecko ARM® Cortex®-M0+ based 32-bit micro-controllers (MCUs). This board provides flash memory configurations up to 64 kB, 4-8 kB of RAM and CPU speeds up to 24 MHz, built on top of...

  • Prep for road testing the EFM32™︎ Zero Gecko Starter Kit

    I'm one of the road testers for the Zero Gecko Starter Kit. I'll test the device in combination with the TI/element14 Fuel Tank booster pack. While waiting for the kit to arrive, I've been bodging together a test device. The booster pack has a bat...
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  • EFM32™︎ Zero Gecko: Encryption with AES

    I hadn't reviewed the encryption module of the Zero Gecko microcontroller yet. The Zero Gecko processor family supports an accelerator for encryption and decryption. Simplicity Studio comes with application note AN0033 and example projects. The examples…

  • EFM32™︎ Zero Gecko Starter Kit w/ Sensor Card: logging to SD card

    Inspired by the Zero Gecko Starter Kit roadtest review of baldengineer , I'm going to try if I can get the weather station example log its data to an SD card. The example shows its data to the lcd screen by default. I wonder if it's possible to log to…

  • Video of egg cooking, testing the harvesting on A REAL EGG!

    Yes, real eggs were harmed doing this experiment I took last night: You don't have permission to edit metadata of this video. Edit media …

  • Carbon Monoxide Detector: The Road So Far

    I would like to sum up all the work I have done in one post for those who did not follow this RoadTest and do not want to go through all the posts one by one. Project description The other night I was making diner in the kitchen and I saw a blinking red…

  • Putting it all together: hardware and software for harvesting!

    Harvesting: the final frontier... It feels like I've just manouvered my egg-spaceship to a place that had to be explored; after months of travelling through low-power switchmode fields and changing my warp-core throug all low-power modes I finally put…

  • Carbon monoxide detector: the movie

    Like Victor, I have finished my movie showing off the project. At the end of the week I will try to sum up what I did and learned during this RoadTest. But right now with no further ado, I present to you the carbon monoxide detector project supplied by…

  • Grande Finale: Video of Energy Harvesting egg cooker!

    You don't have permission to edit metadata of this video. Edit media Dimensions x Small Medium Large Custom Subject (required) Brief Description…

  • Building and debugging my harvester - Part 5

    After the last time, I've added the following features / bugfixes to my project Added button handling; one button to reset egg temperature (if inserting new eggs), the other to switch between showing water temperature and egg yolk temperature The button…

  • Carbon monoxide detector test

    I have soldered and tested my board and I must say – it works great! Here are some pictures of the whole thing: detector, harvester and STK with uC. I have done some energy tests. The output of the harvester chip has 0.1 F supercap. I used LTC3108-1,…

  • Measuring, egg temperature, programming

    Calibration - resistance 270 Ohm - 253 = -6% 1k2 Ohm - 1188 = -1% 15kOhm - 15000 = 0% 120kOhm - 114503 = -5% With 5% resistors, I think this is pretty good; probably the error is distributed between my measurement and the resistor error Programming the…

  • Building and debugging my harvester - Part 4

    My LCD screen is working! Great, great, great.... I'm so happy this is starting to work well! I don't have much time explaining what I did, but I must give credits to EnergyMicro (again) for their outstanding documentation and code library. Last weekend…

  • Building and debugging my harvester - Part 2

    First: the good news: I found the problem ! Now the bad news: I've still got to find the solution. ... Recap In my post from yesterday I told that the output at Vout on the LTC3108 was very low. It was about 800mV. Today I did some experiments: I desoldered…

  • Building and debugging my harverster - Part 1

    Yesterday I had everything I needed: Components from Farnell , samples of the microcontroller from EnergyMicro , and PCB's from Wuerth / WE-Direkt ! And to further thank the main contributors to this build: From left to right: coil by Wuerth, LTC3108…

  • Energy Harvesting Seminar - Krakow

    While my project is not quite finished yet, I would like to share my thoughts about the EH seminar I attended on Tuesday two weeks ago. There were people from all over Poland, even from the opposite site of the country. That shows that companies here…