Year: 2018
Intel releases seven NUCs with Coffee Lake and 10nm Canyon Lake CPUs
Despite struggles and delays with its 10nm processor, Intel has finally released five NUCs (Next Unit of Computing) mini-PC kits that comes with 14nm, 8th Generation Coffee Lake CPU. It also released two NUCs that comes with its 10nm Cannon Lake chips and comes configured with Windows 10...
Continue ReadingKeysight Keysight UXR 110GHz BW, 256GS/s, 10-bit, 4-Channel Real-Time Oscilloscope Teardown & Experiments
In this episode Shahriar takes a look at one of the most advanced electrical test and measurement instruments ever created. The Keysight UXR-Series Real-Time Oscilloscope brings 110GHz of analog bandwidth and 256GS/s real-time sampling at 4-channels simultaneously. To make it even more...
Continue ReadingArdOsc – Arduino Oscilloscope in a Matchbox
Peter Balch @ instructables.com build an Arduino based tiny oscilloscope and a detailed explanation is given on the tutorial. He writes: Why would I want a tiny oscillscope? I've got a room full of electronic Stuff including four oscillscopes. But it's a fuss using them. It would be...
Continue ReadingSensything Provides Sensors, Processing, and Wireless on a Single Board
Multi-sensor data acquisition, processing, and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth communication in a single, open source board. Sense anything. Sensything is an open source, high-resolution (24-bit), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled sensor interface platform that supports multiple sensor readings. In most...
Continue ReadingDIY NAS / Router in 3-bay hot swap enclosure
A 2-bay, low power, ARM-based NAS and router. The project repository is here. The enclosure is an Athena Power BP-SAC2131B 3.5” HDD Hot-Swap Backplane Module. This is a a 3-bay hot swap backplane intended to go into two 5.25” bays of a server. This is not a trayless backplane, the...
Continue ReadingEasy Motion and Gesture Detection by PIR Sensor & Arduino
Here we use PIR sensor and Arduino to detect the motion of a hand. This detection can be used to operate electronic equipment. By ElectroPeak @ hackster.io: In this article, we’ll show you how to make a gesture detector by simple components like PIR sensor and Arduino Nano. At the...
Continue ReadingRock960 SBC- A viable Competitor to Raspberry PI
The Rock960 SBC - developed by Guangzhou based startup called Varms - is built on the hexa-core Rockchip RK3399 and it really stands out from other SBC contenders like the NanoPI M4 despite being a little pricy. The Rock960 is the only "96boards's SBC" in the market that is built on the...
Continue ReadingWarpPi is a Hackable Raspberry Pi Algebra Calculator
Have you ever been given an algebra homework where there were a problem and its answer, but you couldn't figure out how they went to the solution? Well, you're in luck! With Andrea Cavalli's WarpPi calculator and its CAS (Computer Algebra System), you can go ahead and build your own...
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