Month: September 2015
LimiFrog – Ultra-compact prototyping. For IoT and much more.
Program it to invent smart objects. For IoT, robots, wearables, your bright ideas. With sensors, strong MCU, bluetooth, oled & more. LimiFrog — Ultra-compact prototyping. For IoT and much more. -...
Continue ReadingOscilloPhone: Use your Smartphone as an Oscilloscope / Signal Generator
by loboat @ instructables.com: Oscilloscopes and Signal Generators are two essential electronics devices to create and test electronic circuits. Unfortunately, these devices are very expensives for students starting electronics, or makers who want use electronic circuits in their...
Continue ReadingHow to Make Two ESP8266 Talk
Rui Santos shows us how to make two ESP8266 to talk: In this project you’re going to make two ESP8266 talk with each other. How it works? You’re going to set one ESP as an Access Point (Server) and another ESP as a Station (Client). Then they’ll establish a wireless...
Continue ReadingContactless payment ring – A tutorial on NFC antenna coil design
Jatinder has tipped us with this latest post. He writes: I have a done a video about a contactless payment (NFC) ring that I have made. The video talks about NFC antenna coil design and how I used the concepts to make the wearable ring. Contactless payment ring – A tutorial on...
Continue ReadingDekatron as Internet speed indicator
spritesmods.com has build a interner speed indicator based on a Dekatron tube, the result is great. As most electronic engineers and hobbyists do, I have a great respect for the earlier ways of controlling electrons, before it was found out that silicon could be used to miniaturize...
Continue ReadingDIY Apple Clock
by TSJWang @ instructables.com: OK so there's no such thing as the Apple Clock. However, you can make your own retro-style bubble display clock in an Apple earbuds case. I'm going to show you how to do that just sit tight. DIY Apple Clock -...
Continue Reading650V, 100A GaN transistors on show
by Graham Prophet @ edn-europe.com: GaN Systems (Ottawa, Canada) is to display its GS66540C 650V 100A high current GaN power transistors for the first time at the 17th Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE’15 - ECCE Europe (CERN, Geneva, September 8th – 10th...
Continue ReadingWürth Elektronik – a huge range of inductive components
Würth Elektronik is one of the largest European manufacturers of passive and electromechanical components. The range is really wide, judge for yourself. Let us mention at least two types from a wide range: WE-PD - is a popular "standard" series of SMD inductors. Also...
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