Year: 2019

Thanks to their tiny size and improved capabilities, the ATtiny-0-Series of microcontrollers have been a delight for designers and DIYers looking for a microcontroller with the ease of use associated with the Arduino boards, but with a way smaller form factor associated with ATtiny...

Synchronous DC/DC Buck Regulators Feature Lower Quiescent Current and Proprietary Light Load Mode to Achieve up to 6% Higher Efficiency in Standby Mode Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOS) introduced AOZ6682CI and AOZ6683CI. These devices are high efficiency, simple-to-use synchronous...

The capabilities of sensors and sensing systems have grown considerably in recent years, making data acquisition (DAQ) systems increasingly complex as the amount of data flowing and the processing required in these systems multiplies. FPGA devices are perfectly suited to high...

The STTS22H temperature sensor from STMicroelectronics offers high accuracy with low operating and standby current and flexible operating modes. By Gina Roos @ electronicproducts.com STMicroelectronics has launched its STTS22H temperature sensor with typical temperature-reading...

Simply NUC, the company behind several Intel NUC based SBCs like the Apollo Lake based NUC 8 Rugged, recently announced the launch of a new mini-computers codenamed; "Sequoia".   The Sequoia is Simply NUC's first AMD-powered mini computer and it is aimed at applications around...

Boardcon's new EM-IMX8M-MINI is based on NXP’s energy-efficient i.MX8M Mini ARM Cortex A53 processor. The iMX8M SBC has 2GB LPDDR4 and 8GB of eMMC flash with 2x USB 2.0, GbE. Display output is via MIPI LCD, PCIe. There is also optional support for SSD/4G. It runs Linux 4.14.98 and QT...

The startup Print2Taste has kept its promise also in its second Kickstarter campaign. Several backers already received their 3D Choco printer. According to Print2Taste the project team did a great job – the shipment started even ahead of schedule. mycusini is the first consumer 3D...

In one of our previous articles, we built a DIY air quality monitor which was based on measuring the amount of Hydrocarbon concentration in the air using the BME680 VOC Whisker. While things work quite well using that method, there are several other parameters and air constituents which...