Year: 2016

This tutorial shows how to interface DC motors using L293D motor driver IC and Arduino. Controlling DC motors with Arduino and L293 -...

Loren Siebert @ ti.com discuss about how to interface signals that have a reference voltage that isn't 0V while preserving the DC information. Many signal paths are direct current (DC)-coupled, and this can lead to challenges when different portions of the signal path require...

Noela and Miguel from Area0x33 made a really helpful tool on hackaday.io. They designed a fully open source hardware USB stick to store your username/password pairs on. MemType uses Atmel ATtiny85 MCU and V-USB to do the communication over USB. V-USB is software-only implementation...

When you see some board designs, especially ones with high speed signals or differential pair signals, then you will notice a lot of zigzag/meander lines on PCB. If you’re wondering whether you can do differential pair routing, then the answer is simply yes by using Meander...

James Lewis from Kemet has made a presentation to address some of misconceptions about capacitors like how you should de-rate capacitors. James said that de-rating depends on the chemistry and configuration of a particularly capacitor.  So he started by asking a question: Should...

Ahmad Al-Shalabi and Bassma Karbouj show us how to control a DC fan using easy to find components. The fan works when temperature reach into pre-specified threshold. The purpose of this project is creating a cooling system by controlling in a DC fan in a simple way without using...

Vasily Ivanenko build some discrete chip oscillators with 74HC series logic gates and tests them on his oscilloscope. He writes: In numerous RF synthesizer chips lies an inverter with input and output pins for making a reference crystal oscillator clock. I built some discrete chip...

Bosch Sensortec announced a new 9-axis motion sensor, the BMX160, on June 21, 2016. BMX160 targets smartphones, smartwatches and other wearables applications. It has a low power consumption (580 μA), which is proper for long working time on battery for this type of applications, also...