Year: 2015
Single Channel SMD Relay Driver
Single Channel Relay Board is a simple and convenient way to interface a relay for switching application in your project. Specifications Input supply 12VDC @ 42 mA On Board 5V Regulator provides 5V output Output SPDT Relay Relay specification 5 A...
Continue ReadingOpen Inverter, an open source micro-solar inverter
Ken Boak has been working on an open source micro-solar inverter project: We wanted to make a design that uses readily obtainable N-type FETS and an Arduino (more strictly a ATmega328P-PU on a breadboard) to generate the PWM signals and provide simple circuit protection, and load...
Continue ReadingLiFePO4 charger
Markus Gritsch shared his LiFePO4 charger project in the forum: Since I really like using LiFePO4 AA and AAA batteries in some of my projects, I finally gave in and built a dedicated charger for them. Previously I used a lab power supply to mimic the constant current/constant...
Continue ReadingLTC4282 – High Current Hot Swap Controller with I2C Compatible Monitoring
The LTC4282 is an energy monitoring Hot Swap controller with dual MOSFET drive to enable 100A and higher current board designs. The LTC4282 ensures safe board insertion and removal from live 2.9V to 33V backplanes by controlling external Nchannel MOSFETs to gently power up...
Continue ReadingProtection Methods for Automotive Electronics Circuits
Jim Colby @ edn-europe.com discuss how to protect your circuits on automotive enviroment: Along with the ever increasing drive for improved gas mileage, automobile manufacturers are striving to make their vehicles safer with each new design iteration. The safety features that are now...
Continue ReadingArduino weather station with RF433 MHz modules
by eliesalame @ instructables.com: In this project I will show you how make two Arduinos talk to each other using RF frequency (wireless). Now I will use the knowledge in all these project and improve on them by making one Arduino send data to another Arduino wirelessly using an...
Continue ReadingWater Cooled Silicon Chips are reality
Georgia Institute of Technology managed to cool FPGA trasistors using water, they announced: Using microfluidic passages cut directly into the backsides of production field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are putting liquid cooling...
Continue ReadingWireFrame FPGA Board , Breadboardable Xilinx XC3S250E Board
circuitvalley.com has build a small FPGA board based on Xilinx XC3S250E : I have built a little FPGA board Xilinx xc3s250e called WireFrame. the board is only 500mm x 25 mm in size and it is possible to put it breadboard. board has 32MByte SDRAM, 4MByte serial Flash for storage....
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