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  • Corsair RM1000x 1000W Power Supply - LABS Test Report

    Get a special deal on Private Internet Access VPN today at https://www.piavpn.com/PSUCircuit The Corsair RM1000x is a 1000W fully modular, ATX form factor, ATX 3.1 power supply. It offers a single hybrid fan mode and was launched in 2024 with a MS...
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  • Torch Sensors’ Detection System Can Help Humans Fight Wildfires

    The solar-powered sensors detect wildfires before they spread. (Image Credit: Torch Sensors ) Torch Sensors COO Vasya Tremsin saw a massive California wildfire in 2018 while driving from Lake Tahoe. He realized how monumental the wildfires became after…

  • CycleSafe - Summary Blog

    Project goals The goal of CycleSafe project is to improve safety of cyclists on the road. The secondary goal is to make it affordable for a wider community. Project Overview The project will use RPi 4, a camera, and machine learning algorithms to…
  • Digital Factory

    Accelerate your digital factory transformation with Analog Devices

    The digital factory is a factory whose operations are built on data. Operational data from factory devices, robots and machines are combined and analysed to rapidly derive new insights and inform decision-making. These insights are integral to unlocking…

  • CycleSafe - #1 - Introduction

    I'd like to thank HAMMOND and Element14 for the selection of my CycleSafe project proposal for this design challenge! Project goals The goal of CycleSafe project is to improve safety of cyclists on the road. The secondary goal is to make it affordable…

  • How do you Transfer Signal and Power Between Isolated Circuits?

    By Baoxing Chen In a circuit, different parts are typically isolated from one another to improve data integrity and safety. Unwanted signals can be generated by the circuit's power supply. Without isolation, these signals can leak into the rest of the…

  • What Every Engineer Should Know About Electrical Grounding

    Grounding is a wiring connection that provides a path for short circuit current to be sent to earth ground when a fault in the electrical power system occurs. In this respect, grounding is a safety measure that connects electrical circuits or equipment…
  • What’s Super about Supercapacitors? – Part 7: Quite a lot, actually! (Final)

    What’s Super about Supercapacitors? – Part 7: Quite a lot, actually! (Final)

    Six weeks ago, a package arrived on my doorstep marking the beginning of my journey into the world of supercapacitors. As a hobbyist, supercapacitors were an exotic component I had heard of, but never put into use. Thanks to element14’s “Experimenting…
  • What’s Super about Supercapacitors? – Part 6: Solar LoRaWAN PM Sensor, Low-Temps, Imbalance, Cyclic & Short Circuit Life, LED Blinker

    What’s Super about Supercapacitors? – Part 6: Solar LoRaWAN PM Sensor, Low-Temps, Imbalance, Cyclic & Short Circuit Life, LED Blinker

    I didn’t realise when I published my last “extra credit” blog that it would fall on a national holiday weekend in the US. As a result, some of you may have missed some rather interesting experiments looking at safety under abusive conditions and my first…

  • Path to Programmable III Final Project Blog: CarSafety Device using Xilinx ZYNQ FPGA

    Introduction This is the final project blog for Path to Programmable III using the MiniZed Xilinx ZYNQ FPGA board. In this project blog, I will show how I made an internal car safety device using some Grove sensors and the MiniZed FPGA board. From…
  • What’s Super about Supercapacitors? – Part 5: Safety Under Abuse & Power Back-Up Application

    What’s Super about Supercapacitors? – Part 5: Safety Under Abuse & Power Back-Up Application

    After looking at leakage current measurements, sizing a supercapacitor solution, supercapacitor lifetime and plotting the solar panel I-V curve , this forth “extra credit” blog will look at safety aspects related to supercapacitors. Specifically – how…

  • Simplify Network Monitoring: Building an ESP32-Powered Solution -- Episode 617

    In this episode, Mark guides us through creating a network monitor using the ESP32 microcontroller. The project addresses two key needs: firstly, identifying the IP addresses of devices connected to the network, and secondly, tracking network access for…

  • The Basics of Connectors

    Connectors Series - Part 1 - Basics A connector system performs the all important role of interconnecting a product’s printed circuit boards (PCBs), power supplies, control panels and other sub-assemblies. While connectors may appear to play a passive…

  • The Basics of Web-enabled, IoT Remote Monitoring and Control

    An introduction to remote monitoring in IIoT and its benefits in safety and efficiency. sponsored by How are industrial applications monitored? The proliferation of Industry 4.0 brings many advancements, including real-time monitoring and control…

  • Could space debris eventually claim human life? And where it’s landed so far

    Space debris orbiting the Earth could claim human life in the upcoming decade. (Image Credit: pixabay/PIRO4D) I was laying on my back on the top of a highrise building. Not sure how many stories up. Looking up at the sky… I just couldn’t shake the feeling…

  • This robot took matters into its own hands, breaking a chess player's finger

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  • Texas Instruments - TMS470M Transportation and Safety Microcontroller Overview

    http://www.farnell.com/texas-instruments/ The TMS470M microcontroller family enables developers to easily create safety-related applications for the transportation industry. TMS470M microcontrollers use the widely adopted ARM Cortex -M3 CPU runni...
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  • MPC564xL Dual Core Automotive Safety Demo

    http://freescale.com/autosafety - This video introduces you to an easy to implement, dual core automotive safety system that features Power Architecture.
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  • Safer 3D Printers with CSA - Blog #4 - Nearly functionally complete!

    Hello again! I'm looking at how to use a Current Sense Amplifier to make a safer 3D printer. By monitoring the current going out to the printer's nozzle and heat bed, we can detect loose/broken, and shorted wires. Where am I at with all this? Well…

  • Arduino Bytes 09: Protecting Your Pins

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  • Sensing Current for a Safer 3D Printer

    Sensing Current for a Safer 3D Printer Today's consumer 3D printers have slowly become safer in terms of common problems like thermal runaway detection. They still use a relatively high-current heating element in the nozzle, bed, and possibly enclosed…

  • Human Fall Detection with 3-axis MEMS Acceleration Sensors

    Take the Poll | Join our Discussion sponsored by Emergency Alerts When a Person Falls Falling is one of the most common types of accidents humans can have, and for the elderly falling can be debilitating or even -fatal. Additionally, for professionals…
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    RP B+ Safety Leaflet v1.6

    Raspberry Pi B+ Safety Leaflet v1.6
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  • [Video]: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) / Freescale's Safe Eye on the Road

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  • Freescale SafeAssure program: Functional Safety, Simplified*

    The Freescale SafeAssure functional safety program is designed to help system manufacturers more easily achieve system compliance with functional safety standards: International Standards Organization (ISO) 26262 and International Electrotechnical Commission…