Year: 2016
![Efficient Low-Cost Solar Energy Converter Efficient Low-Cost Solar Energy Converter](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/652x367.jpg)
Efficient Low-Cost Solar Energy Converter
Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique have invented a new device to store solar power while the sun’s not shining by converting it into Hydrogen. Although many current methods use the same approach to...
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A Christmas star with Neopixel LEDs
A geeky Christmas decoration made with 56 LED Neopixel and controlled via an Arduino Micro board: Let’s take a look, therefore, at the project’s electrical section, that is essentially composed of a set of 56 Neopixel LEDs, that have been arranged so to form two concentric stars;...
Continue Reading![Bitmap graphics on an Arduino Touch Screen and other top Arduino Displays Bitmap graphics on an Arduino Touch Screen and other top Arduino Displays](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/bitmap-graphics-on-an-arduino-to-1024x576.jpg)
Bitmap graphics on an Arduino Touch Screen and other top Arduino Displays
In this video tutorial educ8s.tv shows us how to load bitmap graphics in our Arduino Touch Screen projects using Adafruit's GFX library. The procedure that I am going to describe works with all the color displays that are supported by Adafruit’s GFX library and by the displays that...
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Buck regulators accept up to 40-V input
by Susan Nordyk @ edn.com: A wide input range of 4.5 V to 40 V enables the TS3004x series of DC/DC synchronous buck regulators from Semtech to work in a wide range of applications, including industrial, telecommunication, and consumer. The current-mode TS30041 and TS30042 furnish 1...
Continue Reading![MEAS: five weather sensors on one Arduino shield MEAS: five weather sensors on one Arduino shield](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20161212164924_MEAS-WEATHER-sHIELD.jpg)
MEAS: five weather sensors on one Arduino shield
by Jan Buiting @ elektormagazine.com: In a stint of list-o-mania TE Connectivity have slapped five environmental sensors on a single board called MEAS for plugging onto the Arduino/Genuino 101 and Uno R3. Here goes in telegram style. MEAS: five weather sensors on one Arduino shield...
Continue Reading![Intel(r) Quark(tm) micrcontroller D2000 based Environmental sensors board Intel(r) Quark(tm) micrcontroller D2000 based Environmental sensors board](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/pics-D2000-Assembled-Board-2-1-600.jpg)
Intel(r) Quark(tm) micrcontroller D2000 based Environmental sensors board
Sergey Kiselev designed and built an Intel Quark D2000 micrcontroller based Environmental sensors board: This is a fairly small (51 x 51 mm) board, equipped with a low power Intel Quark D2000 microcontroller, and several sensors (accelerator, temperature, humidity, atmospheric...
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Supercapacitors Surpassing Conventional Batteries
Researchers at the University of Central Florida have been looking for alternatives for lithium rechargeable batteries which are largely used in every device. Using two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) capacitive materials, they are building a new supercapacitor...
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Bluetooth 5 Is Here!
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has officially launched the core specifications of the new version of Bluetooth: Bluetooth 5. These specifications include longer range, faster speed, and larger broadcast message capacity, as well as improved interoperability and coexistence...
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