Announcing early Beta version of the "LoRa BME280 Sensor Network" a collaboration between Anthropic's Claude and William Lucid.
Project requires two, "Ebyte" EoRa-S3-900TB Development Boards; one for Gateway and one for Node....
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Introduction
Features
Circuit Diagram
Building It
Using It
Summary
Introduction
USB-to-UART adapters are extremely useful when connecting devices, as UART is a widely standard protocol available on many microcontrollers and per...
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Introduction
Obtain a Kit of Parts
Building an Enclosure
Flex PCB Construction
Panel Meter
End Panel RF Connector Assembly
Main Board Parts Soldering
Joining the End Panel and Main Board
Attaching the End Panel/Main Board Assembly...
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Introduction
What Problems Does it Solve?
Working with Dual-in-Line (DIL)Headers
Working With Pi Pico and other Wide DIP Devices
Easy Desoldering
Easy Grounding
Large Screw Terminals and Connectors Support
Summary
Introd...
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Introduction
How Does it Work?
Building It
Using It
Summary
Introduction
A while back I built a little audio amplifier based on a circuit found in an old book.
The amplifier performed reasonably OK (by that I mean adequat...
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Introduction
Create the Schematic
Adding SPICE models
Adding Simulation Voltages
Running a Simulation
Plotting Frequency Response
Simulating Parts of a Circuit (Excluding some Components)
Summary
Introduction
The recent release...
Bridgetek’s products include the EVE family of display controllers which make it easy to add attractive and fully featured touch-enabled graphical user interfaces to existing and new product designs.
To improve the user experience and functiona...
This is just an ultra-quick blog post about an interesting circuit.
I wanted to be able to measure an output up to about 1kV, and so I really desired the measurement to be isolated! I also wanted it to be cheap. This blog post shows the method I won&...
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Introduction: What’s a Blog Checklist?
Good Flow, Bad Flow?
Value
Fun to Read?
Is the Content Appropriate?
Is the Content Relevant?
Use a Table of Contents
Write an Introduction
Write a Summary
Make Use of the Editor To...
This blog post is a joint effort by Jan Cumps and shabaz
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Introduction
IDE Capabilities
JetBrains Products
Visual Studio Code
A Suggested Strategy
Fork the Project Repository
Cloning your Reposi...
This topic is a bit fiddly to describe in words, so I hope the video will suffice. This blog won't have much text : ( I feel like a Ronin when I'm not having to type though! : (
https://youtu.be/T5Zy_BWg3Tw
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Introduction
What’s Required?
Running the Plugin
Fixing Issues
Summary
Introduction
Old-school printed circuit boards (PCBs) often had wavy copper traces! They were done manually by rolling out UV-light-blocking crepe sti...
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Introduction
Python Console
Getting Footprint Information
Python writing Python
Trying it Out
Holes in a Geometric Pattern
Summary
Introduction
One of the great advantages of KiCad is that it supports a decent language for scri...
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Introduction
Cloning a Repository
Creating a Branch and Publishing the Branch
Editing Code and Committing your Code
Creating a Pull Request
Merging the Code to the main branch
Creating your Next Feature
Viewing Branches Graphicall...
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Introduction
What is GitHub and Version Control, and Why is it useful?
What Really Happens
Installing Software
Cloning (Checking out) Code
Creating a Branch and Publishing the Branch
Editing Code and Committing Code
Creating a Pul...
Back in December of last year I backed a Kickstarter campaign by Soldered Electronics for the Inkplate 2 - a 2.13" e-paper display with an ESP32 microcontroller.
I received my unit about a month ago, but have been busy with design challenges and...
I was surfing the net looking for inspiration to build something new to me when I stumbled across Building a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) by shabaz .
His blog post inspired me quite a lot, but also showed me the amount of work a...
It’s been almost exactly one year since I decided to try using KiCad, to migrate off EAGLE CAD.
I was a newcomer to KiCad, but it was possible to feel comfortable enough with KiCad 6 within a week, to the point of producing my first PCB with it...
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Introduction
What is it?
Working with the Module
KiCAD Symbol and Footprint
Debugger Tool
Software Development
Building Code
Controlling an LED
Running the Firmware from RAM
Connecting and Controlling the BLE Device
Writing the Fi...
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Introduction
Using It
I2C Instruction Set
(a) Wake every n seconds (n is between 5 and 255)
(b) Wake every n minutes (n is between 1 and 255)
(c) Read Inputs
(d) Write Outputs
(e) Write to RAM
(f) Read from RAM
(g) Set RTC Time
(...
AUDIO MEASURING SYSTEM BASED ON HP 8903A
This is a project that brings together a few long-term plans of mine and (I hope) combines them into a useful system for measuring audio devices.
The key components are:
HP 8903A – a mainly analog...
Introduction
USB-UART devices provide an interface between a host computer and a peripheral device, connecting between the USB port and a serial connection called a serial UART. Nearly all microcontrollers have a serial UART, and sometimes it can be ...
Cheap case for USB audio card called SkySong
Goal+ cheap and useful case for SkySong USB audio card;+ appearance of device suitable to wooden and black case of headphone amp;+ case must increase total weight of device due to lightweight USB card, whi...
