Year: 2015
19″ system of enclosures will provide you unexpected space
With plug-in enclosures from Fischer Elektronik, it´s easy to solve placing your device into a 19“ „rack“. What enclosure to use for your electronic device and how to sort them when there are several ones on one place? That´s the question reaching almost to beginnings of...
Continue ReadingSensor Technology for Health and Fitness Applications
By Jon Gabay @ digikey.com: Determining the state of our health has always been a matter of finding a way to monitor and measure the body’s most basic functions. Before instrumentation, visual indicators were used that allowed us to know, for example, what our body temperature...
Continue ReadingWebsite is Down Detector
by jckelley @ instructables.com: If you work in a company that has a website, you know how important it is that the website always be up and running. That's why you constantly see "99.99999% reliability!" all over the fancy server hosting sites. A website can't make money if the...
Continue ReadingHow to Make an Internet Speed Analyzer
This is an internet speed Analyzer based on Raspberry Pi: This application will run speedtest-cli against speedtest.net's servers using cron. It will then email the results daily and weekly. Also - using http://www.percheron-electronics.uk/shop/ e-paper hat - you can utilize the...
Continue ReadingLie Detector and Biofeedback Arduino Based
by masteruan @ instructables.com: This tutorial will explain how to build a machine for biofeedback. But first a bit of theory. What is biofeedback? Biofeedback is the process of gaining greater awareness of many physiological functions primarily using instruments that provide...
Continue ReadingWrist Mount Digital Altimeter
This project is a simple wrist mount digital altimeter which is a device used to determine altitude. This design uses atmospheric pressure to calculate the altitude of its location. The lower the atmospheric pressure, the higher the altitude. The project is comprised of a...
Continue ReadingMotorcycle custom instrument panel
Josh from Colorado build a nice dashboard for this motorcycle based on ATMega128 and EPSON S1D13700 LCD Screen: Since the GSXR is now a street fighter the factory gauges won’t do, and I wanted something I could log air/fuel ratios with so I can jet the bike. I went a little...
Continue ReadingOpen Badge: The LED Badge
Rohit Gupta published a new build, the OpenBadge The major elements on the PCB were: – LED Matrix – A MSP430G2553 microcontroller brain – A ULN2803 Darlington Driver to sink the current – A USB connector to charge the battery – A SBW connector to program the...
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