Year: 2015
Measure small currents without adding resistive insertion loss
by Maciej Kokot @ edn.com: In most cases, you measure current by converting it into a proportional voltage and then measuring the voltage. Figure 1 shows two typical methods of making the conversion. In one method, you insert a probing resistor, RP, in series with the current path...
Continue ReadingPCI-Express Clock Generator
This reference design is a frequency generator for use in synchronizing a circuit’s operation. It consumes less than 50mW of power that specifically uses the IDT’s 9FGV0241 PCI-Express Clock Generator which is the lowest-power PCI Express timing family. It is a two output clock...
Continue ReadingA Connected Lamp to Wake Me Up
Limpkin has modified his IKEA lamp to use 10W LEDs. So for some reason I bought 2 IKEA lamps at a flea market. As IKEA furniture has a long history of being hacker-friendly, I figured they shouldn't be an exception to the rule. My plan? Fit a few 10W RGB LEDs in there together with...
Continue ReadingFake TV Security Light
by Marcus Jenkins: This gadget steps up the game from leaving a light on at home when you’re out. Place it near a window to make it look like somebody’s at home watching TV. The idea of leaving a light on at home while you’re out is to give the burglar an uneasy feeling that...
Continue ReadingGraphics on Nokia 5110 Lcd using Arduino
by Akshay Jha @ instructables.com: In this short instructable I am gonna displ some graphics on Nokia 5110 LCD using ARDUINO UNO R3 this is very helpful for beginners`s here is a testing video . Graphics on Nokia 5110 Lcd using Arduino -...
Continue ReadingSit.Up – alerts the user if sitting to long
electrobob.com has build a device that alerts you if sitting to long: Sitting for long periods has become more common in today’s jobs causing serious health issues. Unfortunately the plethora of activity trackers fail to address the issue: being rather active while sitting does not...
Continue ReadingSiglent SDM3055 5.5 Digit Bench Multimeter Review
SIGLENT’s SDM3055 series is a dual display digital desktop multimeter. The SDM3055 provides a rich and powerful feature set at an excellent price. This DMM family is well suited for production testing, R&D and certification work, as well as any place where an accurate...
Continue ReadingTeardown & Analysis of a Keysight InfiniMax III N2802A 25GHz Active Probe
In this episode Shahriar takes a close look at one of Keysight (Agilent) InfiniMax III active probes. The model N2802A offers 25GHz of analog bandwidth, 17.5pS of rise time and a total differential input capacitance of 32fF at 10k-Ohm input impedance. The front-end amplifier of this...
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