Year: 2018
Imec Invented Unique Cost-effective Cooling For High-Performance Chips
Imec, the distinguished Belgian research center has invented a new and cost-effective method of cooling chips. This achievement can be an important innovation to tackle the ever-increasing cooling demands of high-performance 3D chips and systems. Present powerful electronic systems have...
Continue ReadingCCPROG PAT – USB-C Power Adapter Programmer and Tester
The PAT is designed for Validation, Test, and Debug of USB Type-C (Power Delivery capable) power adapters. Simple and user friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) packaged with this tool enables an easy demonstration of the power adapter capabilities (PDOs). The project is coming...
Continue ReadingEaglePanelizer – EAGLE CAD artwork panelizer
This is simple tool for panelize EAGLE CAD artwork. Motivates from this tweets "Specify X, Y on the EAGLE just make faces with Gerber in 1 shot." EaglePanelizer - EAGLE CAD artwork panelizer -...
Continue ReadingiCEBreaker FPGA – Open source iCE40 FPGA development board
The first open source iCE40 FPGA development board designed for teachers and students. It's comming soon on CrowdSupply. Are you ready to venture into the brave new world of digital logic design? The iCEBreaker FPGA board is specifically designed for you. It’s designed to work out of...
Continue ReadingRetro-uC – An open silicon microcontroller with a Z80, MOS6502, and M68K
Chips4Makers have launched a campaign to fund their open silicon microcontroller with a Z80, MOS6502, and M68K cores. The Retro-uC allows to use of these legendary instruction sets for your to days electronics projects. Are you a maker that pines for the early years of personal...
Continue ReadingEstimote LTE Beacon – A Union Between Indoor and Outdoor Tracking For Asset Management
Beacons which became popular back in 2013 when Apple introduced the iBeacon, are Bluetooth powered devices. They promised so many applications and created hype around the business world, that was believed to be the next big technology seeing applications in several industries from...
Continue ReadingSave My Child: The smart sensor that sends text messages if you forget the child in the car
It is installed in cars, and thanks to a detector placed on the child seat, it warns us – via SMS or phone call – if we get away without bringing the child with us. Boris Landoni writes: Among the most saddening (and at any rate, infrequent) accidents in the news, there are those...
Continue ReadingUltraV: a Portable UV-index Meter
fmarzocca @ instructables.com build a portable UV index meter with Arduino. He writes: Being unable to expose myself to the sun due to a dermatological problem, I used the time I would have spent on the beach to build an ultraviolet rays meter. UltraV. It is built on an Arduino Nano...
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