Year: 2016
Touch Weather Station using a DHT22 Sensor and a Raspberry Pi 3 with TKInter
educ8s.tv tests the new Raspberry Pi 3 board, by building a simple but useful project. A few months back, the Raspberry Pi 3 board was released. It is a great new board because it now offers WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity out of the box! It uses a quad core processor which operates...
Continue ReadingA miniature persistence-of-vision board
axio.ms published an update of the board and firmware of their SMD POV display. This device is simply 8 bright SMD LEDs and an AVR uC and makes use of the Persistence of Vision effect. You wave it about, and it writes messages in the air, with no wires, liquids or unpleasant bending!...
Continue ReadingVHF Frequency Counter with PC Interface
Scott has published a new build: This is the general idea behind how this frequency counter works. It’s so simple! It’s entirely digital, and needs very few passive components. sn74lv8154 is configured in 32-bit mode (by chaining together its two 16-bit counters, see the...
Continue ReadingWithings GO activity tracker teardown
nick @ novemberfive.co tears-down the Withings GO activity tracker. First, we removed the battery. This is easy: you can simply open the back of the casing with the included tool or with a regular coin. The included battery turned out to be a Panasonic 3V CR2032 with a capacity of...
Continue ReadingTime Machine – A Smart Clock That Does What You Say Using Alexa Voice Service
With a controller and a seven segment display, showing the time is not a so special feature, but when this clock can listen to the user and do what they want, that’s what worth highlighting a “Time Machine”. Analysing human voice and take action based on that is not so simple....
Continue ReadingPublic Release of ESP32 SoC The Big Brother Of ESP8266
It has been about one year since the announcement of ESP32 SoC and the beginning of its beta testing for some developers. Last Month we covered the release of ESP-WROOM-32 module datasheet, which promised that “New SDK features, tutorials and example applications will be...
Continue ReadingLTC Design Note: Dual 9A, step-down μModule regulator with digital power system management
Jian Li, Yingyi Yan and Marvin Macairan have published a Design Note based on LTM4675 dual DC/DC regulator. The LTM4675 is a dual 9A or single 18A step-down μModule (micromodule) DC/DC regulator featuring remote configurability and telemetry monitoring of power system management...
Continue ReadingTracespace Online Gerber Viewer (beta)
This particular PCB viewer takes your Gerber and drill files and gives you individual layer renders as well as very fancy renders of what your completed boards are going to look like. The tracespace viewer accomplishes all this locally (nothing gets sent to any server!) by...
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