Month: October 2016
![MPPT solar charger MPPT solar charger](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20160927_SolarCharger_036-scaled-1024x682.jpg)
MPPT solar charger
Lukas Fässler show us his progress on the MPPT solar charger: One of my main goals with this design is to achieve very low standby current, somewhere in the tens of microamps. The basis for this is a low-power buck on the basis of a Texas TPS62120 where the microcontroller can...
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RFID Tutorial with an Arduino Uno and an OLED display
educ8s.tv uploaded a new video on a RFID Arduino Tutorial: Today we are going to build a very interesting project. For the first time we are going to use RFID tags with Arduino. I have built a simple project which reads the Unique ID (UID) of each RFID tag we place close to the...
Continue Reading![C.H.I.P Pro The New GR8-Based Module C.H.I.P Pro The New GR8-Based Module](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/chippro_project_img-e1476443862108.png)
C.H.I.P Pro The New GR8-Based Module
NextThing Co., is a hardware company that has the goal to create things that would inspire creativity, and help people chase their own ideas of what needed to exist. After producing their world's first $9 computer C.H.I.P, they are ready now to launch a new product! C.H.I.P Pro,...
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That’s how nano solar cells work!
by Harry Baggen @ elektormagazine.com Researchers from the AMOLF institute and Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a theory and an experimental method that for the first time provide a detailed description of how a nanoscale solar cell works. Previously this was difficult...
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Mesh Networking Module Supports ZigBee and Thread
Silicon Labs, an energy-friendly solution provider, produced a new family of Wireless Gecko modules for mesh networking applications and supporting ZigBee and Thread software. Mesh network is a network topology which each node relays data for the network. All mesh nodes cooperate in...
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DIY portable spectrometer
Spectral signature is a characteristic property of a material that represent how the matter interacts with an electromagnetic radiation at different wavelengths. By looking at the reflectance spectra of a material, scientists can not only retrieve vital information like the chemical...
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BLE Carbon, The New $28 IoT Edition SBC
Linaro, a collaborative engineering organization consolidating and optimizing open source software and tools for the ARM architecture, is bringing together industry and the open source community to work on key projects, reduce industry wide fragmentation, and provide common software...
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Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into An OBD2
Thomas Beck started a new project to develop a Raspberry Pi based OBD2, On-Board Diagnostic tester, to read vehicle data, trouble codes, and read monitor data. He had developed earlier a firmware for the elektor OBD Analyser NG, a handheld analyser with graphical display, ARM Cortex M3...
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