Month: June 2017
2.7V to 38V/500 mA low noise buck-boost charge pump
Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com discuss about Linear's low noise buck-boost converter LTC3246, able to produce 3.3V, 5V or ADJ regulated with an input range of 2.7V to 38V : LTC3246 is a low noise buck-boost charge pump with integrated watchdog timer capable of up to 500 mA...
Continue ReadingPD Buddy Sink – USB Power Delivery for everyone
Clayton G. Hobbs @ hackaday.io published some details of his project, a USB power delivery board. He writes: USB Power Delivery is a cool standard for getting lots of power—up to 100 W—from a USB Type-C port. Being an open standard for supplying enough power to charge phones,...
Continue ReadingPi Desktop Case – include peripherals too
The ‘Pi Desktop’ kit from element14 offers some great features like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a real-time clock, an interface for an mSATA-SSD hard drive, an optional camera, heat sink, a neat power switch and of course the sleek black case. [via] The Raspberry Pi is a well designed,...
Continue ReadingVirtual telescope makes first image of a black hole
by Eric Bogers @ elektormagazine.com discuss about a new project that aims to create the first image of a black hole. He writes: A powerful network of radio telescopes, spread around our planet, attempts for the first time to create an image of a black hole. Black holes are...
Continue ReadingOverview of the Tektronix MSO58 8-Channel 6.25GS/s 2GHz Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope
Overview of the Tektronix MSO58 8-Channel 6.25GS/s 2GHz Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope -...
Continue ReadingWhat is Embedded FPGA — Known as eFPGA
Today’s market requirements change faster than the typical development time for a new device or the ability of designers of SoCs to know. To solve this problem, FPGAs/MCUs are used so developers can change the configuration/firmware later. As known, MCU IP is static and you can't...
Continue ReadingOpen-V, The Open Source RISC-V 32bit Microcontroller
Open source has finally arrived to microcontrollers. Based on RISC-V instruction set, a group of doctoral students at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia have been working on an open source 32-bit chip called "Open-V". Onchip, the startup of the research team,...
Continue ReadingPost Tweets With Your Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi is famous for its great computing strength and ability to run the Linux operating system. In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to make your Raspberry Pi tweet. You can add extra features to this project to post tweets autonomously if any specific event occurs. Let's get...
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