Month: May 2017
Helios4 – The World’s 1st Open Source NAS
Build your own PrivateCloud: Store music & movies, share photo albums with friends, protect your files and never fear losing data again. Helios4 is a Network Attached Storage or NAS - a smart box with up to 4 hard drives designed to store Family Photos, Music playlists, and Movie...
Continue ReadingData-rich 3.5mm jack vies with USB-C for headsets
Horst Gether @ edn.com writes about how the simple and well established 3.5mm jack can be used for data-rich communication between headset and mobile device. The 3.5mm phone jack is a well-established standard in the audio industry and continues to get strong support from users in...
Continue Reading6V Lead Acid Battery Charger using BQ24450
6V Lead acid (SLA) battery charger project is based on BQ24450 IC from Texas instruments. This charger project takes all the guesswork out of charging and maintaining your battery, no matter what season it is. Whether you have a Bike, Robot, RC Car, Truck, Boat, RV, Emergency...
Continue ReadingArduino Primo With Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, and Infrared
Thanks to a partnership with Nordic Semiconductor - the world's most successful open-source ecosystem for education, Maker, and Internet of Things (IoT) markets -, Arduino announced its new board, Arduino Primo, including native Bluetooth Low Energy wireless connectivity and NFC...
Continue ReadingULINKplus, A Debug Adapter With Power Measurment
While building an ultra-low power application, sensitive hardware and software validation is required to reach system and long battery life. Testing will need an interaction with the tested parts, like simulating input pins of the target application. These difficulties could be solved...
Continue ReadingPCB Design for manufacture [PDF]
SeeedStudio has published a PCB design manual to help makers and engineers design better PCBs. The guide covers many aspects of PCB design for manufacture summarizing the experience of their PCB service over the last 9 years. PCB Design for manufacture -...
Continue ReadingCP2615 USB-I2S Bridge – A New Solution from Silicon Labs
Apple said goodby to 3.5mm audio jack in Iphone 7 by adding the audio signal to USB plug besides the other functionalities. While Iphone is a pioneer brand, a lot of manufacturers in the near future will drop that analog jack. However, your ear responds to analog signals only. So either...
Continue ReadingPi Zero Gameboy = GameBoy Zero
moosepr @ hackaday.io writes: My attempt to get the smallest, simplest GameBoy style device, based on the pi Zero. Pi Zero Gameboy = GameBoy Zero -...
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