Year: 2016

The Scribble Pen represents a real breakthrough, simply point the pen's scanner at a colour, and draw in that colour with the Scribble Pen or Scribble Stylus. “We're passionate about making people's lives more colourful, artistic, energetic and happy and that's exactly what our...

A ceramic-based UV LED, the VLMU1610-365-135 from Vishay provides typical radiant power of 18 mW at 20 mA and 50 mW at 60 mA over a wavelength range of 362.5 nm to 370 nm. The silicone lens of the device enables extremely long lifetimes of up to 25,000 hour, compared to typical...

Jack Ganssle @ embedded.com reviews the Siglent SDS 2304X oscilloscope. I’ve had a Siglent SDS1102CML two channel 100 MHz bench scope here for the last two years. I demand a lot from my test equipment so had low expectations when it arrived. After all, how good can a $359 unit be?...

Nidec Copal, the world’s biggest manufacturer of camera shutters, has developed the smallest, thinnest and lightest camera module for mobile devices. It measures just 8.5 x 8.5 x 4.2 mm and weighs 0.57 g. The new camera module is about half the size of Nidec Copal’s previous...

Tinkerman @ tinkerman.cat tipped us with his latest project. It's a laundry notification system that will message you when it's finished. I often forget my wet clothing in the washer and after a day they really smell… so I thought about monitoring my washer and get a notification...

Silicon Labs recently introduced a new platform that enables users to develop their own sensor driven IoT application, this platform is called Thunderboard React and it’s for 29$. Thunderboard contains Silicon Labs’ BGM111 bluetooth smart module connected with punch of sensors...

In the last two years, ESP8266 was the Wifi Chip/Module which dominated the market of hobbyists, even a lot of commercial products use ESP8266, due to the low price, ease of use and large community around ESP8266. RTL8710 is a Wifi network solution from the Taiwanese Company...

Are you an embedded system programmer? Checkout the rank of your favorite programming language according to IEEE Spectrum ranking. C language is in the first place for programming devices controllers, followed by C++, Arduino, then Assembly. IEEE Spectrum has special methods to figure...