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Building a Low Power Compact LCD Display - I2C Traffic

Jan Cumps

Our Raspberry Pi friends will know the Building a Low Power Compact LCD Display project that shabaz published a while ago. He designed a £5 LCD module and the source code for Raspberry Pi.Let's have a look at the I2C traffic. I used the Hercules port...
- 22 Nov 2016
Building a Low Power Compact LCD Display - Port to Hercules Safety Microcontroller

Jan Cumps

Our Raspberry Pi friends will know the Building a Low Power Compact LCD Display project that shabaz published a while ago. He designed a £5 LCD module and the source code for Raspberry Pi. I have ported that code to the Texas Instruments Hercule...
- 21 Nov 2016
Researchers use vacuum tubes to create a chip with no semiconductors

Catwell

A team from UC San Diego used old tube technology to create a chip without semiconductors. This is what the semiconductor free chip would look like. (Image via UC San Diego) The fashion world is proof that old is new again. How else can we expla...
- 14 Nov 2016
Current sensing add on for boards from Texas Instruments – TI INA301

Catwell

TI INA301EVM - "High accuracy, high slew-rate current sense amplifier with integrated high-speed comparator optimized for overcurrent protection." I saw this board and thought it was pretty useful... see why below... Need your SBC to sense ...
- 4 Nov 2016
Chipsetter ONE puts a PCB pick-and-place machine on your desktop

Catwell

The Chipsetter ONE is an automated pic-and-place machine that assembles PCB electronics using component trays and an array of tape feeders that can utilize different sized SMTs. (via Chipsetter) Anyone who has ever assembled their own PCBs can t...
- 1 Nov 2016
University of Sussex creates floating display

Catwell

The team at the university uses voxels and ultrasound waves to keep the pixels floating in mid-air. These pixels are actually floating in mid-air (via University of Sussex) With most of our times spent staring at screens, the clear, crispness of...
- 31 Oct 2016
Auto wake-up of MFRC 522 RFID Module

henrio

Can anyone help me on how to automatically wake MFRC 522 Mifare Reader up by the presence of a RFID Card. And after goes back to sleep
- 31 Oct 2016
A team of scientists want to use T-rays to make computers faster

Catwell

Russian and European scientists believe T-rays will be faster than electromagnetic fields when running computers. Will T-rays make our computers faster? No one looks forward to going to the airport and in recent years the experience has been mo...
- 21 Oct 2016
Researchers use beer breweries waste water for ion batteries

Catwell

A research team at the University of Colorado-Boulder is using wastewater from breweries to help cultivate ion battery electrodes. A diagram of the process researchers use the wastewater (Photo from University Colorado-Boulder) For some, beer is...
- 19 Oct 2016
Yoyogi National Gymnasium gets new LED basketball court for the start of B. League games

Catwell

Yoyogi National Gymnasium replaced the wooden floor with 400sqm of SEfl LED Video-flooring from Glux. (via rentGlux) The B. League basketball games in Tokyo have kicked off with the first beginning with Alvark Tokyo against the Ryukyu Golden Ki...
- 28 Sep 2016
Old school meets new school on the The Invader Turntable

Catwell

The Invader mixes an old school turntable with a embedded record(Photo from Thud Rumble) Hoping to do something similar to this with a Raspberry Pi, but in the meantime.... The art of DJing has been around since the late 70s. Over time the ...
- 16 Sep 2016
Ecad.io lets users convert ECAD files to MCAD using just a browser

Catwell

Ecad.io lets users convert their ECAD files into MCAD files online, such as this Arduino Uno 3D schematic. (via ecad.io) If you’re looking for a quick and simple way to convert your ECAD files into MCAD, you may want to check out ecad.io (now p...
- 9 Sep 2016
Researchers finally create carbon-based transistors that out-perform silicon

Catwell

Researchers used a rapid-deposition process to attach an aligned array of carbon nanotubes on a 1-inch X 1-inch substrate. (via WISC) Materials engineers from the University of Wisconsin have finally developed a process that turns carbon nanotu...
- 8 Sep 2016
If you were going to buy an 808 drum kit, check this out first

Catwell

HTML’s virtual drum machines are now available for free on all popular browsers. It, Arduino, and littleBits new drum and synth kits make music making easier than ever. This is a hobby like interest for me - synthesizers and drum machines. Ma...
- 7 Sep 2016
Original Nintendo Controller Goes Wireless

Catwell

In honor of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, Analogue and 8bitdo created the Retro Receiver – a Bluetooth receiver that allows the original Nintendo console to work seamlessly with modern Bluetooth controllers. (via 8bitdo) I am writi...
- 1 Sep 2016
Scientists develop self-destructing battery to usher in new transient electronics

Catwell

Iowa State University’s lithium-ion battery is capable of producing 2.5V and dissolves/dissipates in 30-minutes when exposed to water. (via Iowa State) Normally, when it comes to lithium-ion batteries we prefer them to be robust and not easily ...
- 31 Aug 2016
Intel enters the mobile arena to edge out the competition once and for all

Catwell

Intel announced a new license with ARM, that may position it to rapidly manufacture nano-sized chips for mobile use. While AMD has had access to ARM technology for a handful of years, it has little room to compete in the mobile space. (via Intel) &n...
- 24 Aug 2016
Japan takes unique approaches to teaching kids code proving how cool they are

Catwell

Glicode uses popular snacks to teach kids programming; a high school in Japan has a class dedicated to drones. Ever thought of using food to learn about coding?(Photo from Glicode) It seems Japan really wants to encourage kids to be invested in...
- 19 Aug 2016
The future of technology is here – 3 innovations to follow

Catwell

Inspiration abounds in this mini-roundup. The next digital revolution is here, and bringing with it gizmos and gadgets that are faster, smarter, and more powerful than ever. Harvard’s B2 flow battery (Image via Harvard) One such adv...
- 21 Jul 2016
MakerPros, teach our kids to build and design!

Catwell

The Maker Movement isn’t just gaining in popularity with adults, children are also joining the trend. With a $5-plus billion STEM education initiative backed by the government, and an endless array of making toys dedicated solely to kids, it’s never ...
- 6 Jul 2016
MIT Researchers Developing Programmable Bacteria

Catwell

Segments of DNA can perform basic computing functions (NAND), and code the answer by emitting green flourescent protein (GFP) (image via Nature) What happens when the world runs out of silicon? Biological circuits could replace minerals as stor...
- 27 Jun 2016
Fireflies Inspire Efficient Lighting Design

Catwell

The ridges and bumps of the OLED, when mimicking the firefly, enhance its luminescent efficiency (via American Chemical Society, 2016) Who knew that a firefly’s rear end contained the secret to efficient lighting? When aeronautic engineers desig...
- 24 Jun 2016
Nanocars complete first open environment test

Catwell

Rice University researchers have tested nanocars outside of a vacuum sealed environment (via Rice University) Researchers have been using nanocars, molecular-scale cars that may carry tiny payloads one day, for testing in different vacuum enviro...
- 10 Jun 2016
Certified USB-C and Power Delivery Solution based on STM32

sylviebp

Implement new USB Type-C and Power Delivery technology with ST certified embedded software solution based on STM32.The free STM32 USB-C and PD stack is compliant with USB Type-C 1.2 and USB Power Delivery 2.0 specifications enabling the rapid develop...
- 10 Jun 2016
Debugging Embedded Systems: the Problems and Solutions

Former Member

This blog is the first in a series on the new debug features in SOMNIUM DRT.We all know from experience (and this is confirmed by many studies) that debugging takes up a significant part of the time in software development. Software systems are compl...
- 10 Jun 2016