Author: Emmanuel Odunlade
Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into a Standalone AVR/ESP Programmer with LEMPA
One of the challenges of developing and producing microcontroller-based hardware projects in a repeatable, small/medium volume, is the amount of work it takes to flash the MCUs with the required firmware. Another side of the problem for designers who work with diverse types of...
Continue ReadingDT71 Mini Digital Tweezers
The all-in-one DT71 Mini Digital Tweezers is a measuring tool with full differential input measurement, capable of functioning as an LCR / ESR meter, a digital multimeter, or/and an SMD Tester. Design with innovation and the highest user experience intentions, the DT71 subvert the...
Continue ReadingLegally Track Smartphones users with ESP8266
With a vast majority of the world population owning a smartphone, being able to track someone through their phone is not such a bad idea after all, especially if it is done within legal limits. This is the end result of a recent project developed by engineering student Amine Mehdi...
Continue ReadingJPEGDEC is a Faster JPEG Arduino Library Designed for 32-bit MCUs
For most firmware developers and hobbyists, who have had to write firmware for projects that involve displaying JPEGs on an LCD with an Arduino, one thing that quickly comes to mind is the bulkiness of the libraries and the slow speed at which the images are displayed. While the speed is...
Continue ReadingMeet the RFL-Watch: LoRa-Based Text Communicator
While adulations were still being showered on his work on the MORPHESP 240, Dr. Philippe Cadic (@Sulfroid on twitter), recently shared progress on another project called the RFL-Watch, via his twitter handle which is usually loaded with reports on the progress of his projects. Based on...
Continue ReadingNano: spot welding just got easy and affordable
One of the major focuses of the maker movement since time immemorial has been the development of a makeshift version of tools with the goal of making them cheaper and more accessible. This focus has been more pronounced in recent times with several tools like CNC and 3Dprinters being all...
Continue ReadingAirBolt® GPS – The Tiny GPS Tracker You’ve always wanted
From pets wandering away and ultimately getting lost, to keys and other items getting misplaced, the desire to, at all times, be able to tell the location of things that are important to us is a priority to everyone. Several GPS tracking solutions exist on the market with small form...
Continue ReadingAlibaba Speaks More on it’s XT910 RISC-V Core Claimed to be Faster Than An Arm Cortex-A73
Alibaba has provided more details on its first RISC-V-based product; A 16-core RISC-V processor called the XT 910. As at the time of its release in July 2019, not much was said about the XuanTie 910 except that it was targeted towards the high-performance end to end 5G, AI, and...
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