Month: July 2020

So far so good, only a few boards have been able to take advantage of the extra USB OTG interface offered by the ESP32-S2 processor released back in 2019, and one of them is the new Maia development board from Stetel Things. As a quick reminder, the ESP32-S2 was unveiled with quite...

Arduino has announced a new set of boards to the Ardunino Nano family. The boards were on display last weekend at Maker Faire Bay Area in San Mateo at the Arduino booth. Banzi also delivered a talk on “The State of Arduino” at the Faire’s Center Stage. The new family of Arduino...

Radio Frequency Network Analyzers is one important tool required for testing the frequency response of filters and networks, but as we all know, buying a regular RF test equipment can be quite the expenditure. This was why hobbyist Stephen Merrifield, who after seeing the increased need...

Industrial automation company Flicq has introduced its 2nd generation Edge AI smart sensor board, for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with the launch of SmartEdge. Claiming to be the world’s smallest Edge AI smart sensor board, SmartEdge delivers plug-and-play asset monitoring...

Axiomtek - a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted in the research, development and manufacture of series of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is proud to introduce the NA346, a 4-LAN fanless network appliance platform designed in a small...

Ruben Henares has designed a Maxmix controller with a stylist knob that could save us the stress of having to always go through the menus and on-screen sliders to change the volume of individual apps on our PCs. The knob on the controller takes an input from the encoder/button to...

Alorium technology has unveiled its new Arduino compatible FPGA board called the Evo M51. We have seen other Arduino FPGA boards like the Arduino Zero, but the Evo M51 is a smaller Arduino compatible FPGA board. About the board, the company says: “Evo M51 is the next step in the...

This application note describes implementing a simple circuit for the FT930/FT931RTC external power supply switch. The Texas Instruments SN74AUC2G53 Single-Pole Double-Throw (SPDT) analog switch is used to select the power supplied by the 1.5V battery or by the 1.2V internal LDO. You...