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![Accelerometers for vibration measurements & wireless condition monitoring Accelerometers for vibration measurements & wireless condition monitoring](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/170504eedn-adi-adxl356-adxl357.jpg)
Accelerometers for vibration measurements & wireless condition monitoring
Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com discuss about two new MEMS accelerometers from Analog Devices: Analog Devices (ADI) has added two devices to its low noise, low drift, low power, three-axis MEMS accelerometers. The low noise performance over high frequencies provided by the...
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Open Source UV Index Detector
Boris Landoni @ open-electronics.org documents his UV index detector. It measures solar radiation and visualizes the corresponding value on the integrated display of a miniaturized Arduino, in order to tell us when to expose ourselves to the sun… Open Source UV Index Detector -...
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SEPIC/Ćuk converter sprouts second output
by Gheorghe Plasoianu @ edn.com Many applications require positive and negative supply voltages, with only one voltage requiring tight regulation. This Design Idea describes a dual-output, hybrid SEPIC-Ćuk converter whose positive output voltage can be lesser or greater than the...
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Reverse engineering the 76477 sound effect chip
Ken Shirriff has written an article on reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound effect chip: Remember the old video game Space Invaders? Some of its sound effects were provided by a chip called the 76477 Complex Sound Generation chip. While the sound effects1 produced...
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Free PADS PCB packages from Mentor/Digi-Key
by Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com: Two versions of the PADS software package (by Mentor, now a Siemens business) have been made available through distributor Digi-Key. Positioned as design software for “the aspiring innovator” both the free and the $499 versions include...
Continue Reading![Embedded vision development kit targets mobile & ‘edge’ applications Embedded vision development kit targets mobile & ‘edge’ applications](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/170503eedn-lattice-_evdk.jpg)
Embedded vision development kit targets mobile & ‘edge’ applications
by Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com: Lattice Semiconductor positions its Embedded Vision Development Kit as the first of its type, that is optimized for mobile-influenced system designs that require flexible, low cost, and low power image processing architectures, by which the...
Continue Reading![PIC Development Board for RS485 & DMX512 Applications PIC Development Board for RS485 & DMX512 Applications](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/62421e95-6143-417a-ba54-2a0ac70d8320-002-1.png)
PIC Development Board for RS485 & DMX512 Applications
This PIC development board has been designed to develop RS485 based and DMX512 applications, the board has 28 pin SMD Pic micro-controller, RS485 chip for communications, all I/O line has pull-up resistor which can be soldered as per application requirement on particular port pins....
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Explore magnetoresistive sensing with Arduino
Graham Prophet@ eedesignnewseurope.com discuss about precision-measurement motion sensing using Arduino compatible kit. From distributor RS Components, this kit enables development of precision-measurement motion control systems using Sensitec’s magnetoresistive sensor technology,...
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