Author: Ayo Ayibiowu
Materials that will bring better Aluminium batteries
Giant Strides have been moving towards research and production of aluminum batteries. Different teams are working hard to ensure the production of sustainable Aluminium batteries. Recently, Standford University scientists released the first high-performance aluminum battery that can last...
Continue ReadingWellPCB – A Low Cost PCB Prototyping and PCB Assembly Service
The dream of every maker and innovator out there is to make a product that will be usable by potential users. For hardware-based products and devices, the first step in achieving this is to develop a prototype and then move from there. The prototype will involve making a circuit diagram...
Continue ReadingBeagleWire is an Open Source FPGA Board With BeagleBone Compatibility
Beaglebone boards are low power open source single board computers created to teach open source hardware and software to makers. However, BeagleWire is a development platform designed for use with Beaglebone board. BeagleWire is a Beaglebone compatible shield based on the Lattice iCE40HX...
Continue ReadingGiada AP23 – A Compact Apollo Lake Series board
Giada, the Chinese based company and a provider of embedded PCs, embedded motherboards, server and storage appliances, has recently announced a new AP23 series Pico boards based around the Intel® Apollo Lake platform. The Intel Apollo platform is based on the Intel Atom® processor E3900...
Continue ReadingSolid State Li-ion Batteries – High Energy-Dense Batteries Are Closer Than Before
The Interuniversity MicroElectronicss Centre (IMEC) is an independent research center which deals with nanoelectronics and digital technologies. Their headquarters are situated in Leuven, Belgium. Recently IMEC began to research and prototype Solid State Lithium-ion batteries. Solid State...
Continue ReadingRAK8211-NB iTracker – An All Weather IoT Board designed for Asset Tracking with Bluetooth 5.0
In the last few years, we have seen a lot of love poured towards the hardware ecosystem especially hardware related to the Internet of Things applications (hardly would you find any board that doesn't have one or two IoT offerings). Some boards give basic IoT functionality like...
Continue ReadingBlkBox BB-E01P – The World’s Smallest ESP8285-Based WiFi Module
Back in March 2016, Espressif Announced the ESP8285 Wi-Fi Chip, a supposed killer of the favorite ESP8266 chip. The new chip is an ESP8266, but with the flash memory onboard - 1MB flash memory. Espressif’s ESP8285 delivers highly integrated Wi-Fi SoC solution to meet users’...
Continue ReadingDSO-1000E/F Series – Four-channel oscilloscopes with bandwidth up to 250MHz
Conrad Business Supplies, a household name for the distribution of electronics items has added to its ever-expanding products a new set of Oscilloscopes made by Voltcraft. The oscilloscopes are four-channel, they are very well equipped and are particularly suitable for measurements in...
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