Month: March 2017
How to Setup WiFi on the Raspberry Pi
In this video, Circuit Basics will show us how to configure a WiFi dongle and establish a wireless connection for your Raspberry Pi. This is useful if you don't wish to connect your Raspberry Pi to your network with an Ethernet cable. How to Setup WiFi on the Raspberry Pi -...
Continue Reading5V @3A Switching Power Supply
This circuit is about a buck regulator which can produce an output of 5V for a input voltage ranging from 7V to 40V. LM2576 is a monolithic IC and it acts as the heart of this circuit. This IC has a potential of delivering an output current up to 3A and requires less number of...
Continue ReadingSuper Efficient Nano-LED
For the exponentially growing data traffic worldwide, the data connections within and between microchips are increasingly becoming a bottleneck. Optical connections are an obvious successor, but that requires an adequate nano-sized light source – and this has now been found. Researchers...
Continue ReadingRFM69 output power
Bob @ electrobob.com tipped us with his latest article about RFM69 module. As I was mentioning in my 1000.1000 Hardware selection, I have opted for the cool RFM69HW radio module. Weirdly enough, in quite a few sources (big distributor and ebay) the higher power HW module is cheaper....
Continue ReadingTeardown and review of the new MHS5200A
Craig writes: I’ve gotten a lot of questions on the blog about the new version of the MHS5200A function generators available on eBay. Viewer Tolga was kind enough to send one in to me to review and tear down. Although some improvements have been made over the older models, there...
Continue ReadingPease on Analog Volume 2 is a free download
via elektormagazine.com: New in the Electronics Design Library is Volume 2 of FOCUS ON: Bob Pease on Analog. With very few exceptions Bob Pease is remembered fondly all over the globe for his analog design expertise as well as his sense of humor. Our esteemed competitors Electronics...
Continue ReadingTeardown, Repair & Calibration of a Keithley 2400 Source Measure Unit
Teardown, Repair & Calibration of a Keithley 2400 Source Measure Unit -...
Continue ReadingArduino Interrupts Tutorial
In this video educ8s.tv is going to show us how to use interrupts with Arduino, an advanced but extremely useful feature of the Arduino. But what is an interrupt? Most microprocessors have interrupts. Interrupts let you respond to external events while doing something else. Suppose...
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