Author: Yahya Tawil

Jone Teel over Makezine walked through how to use BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy ), aka Bluetooth smart, in an electronic product. BLE, unlike classic Bluetooth, it's not designed for big data transmission or streaming audio or video. BLE comes in SoC (System on Chip) ICs which combine a RF...

ESP8266, the well known WiFi module contains an ESP8266EX SoC IC and an external SPI flash. This external SPI flash is used together with ESP8266EX to store user programs. The supported size of flash by ESP8266EX is up to 16MB but some of ESP8266 modules contain flash chips with low...

It has been one month since the Autodesk’s acquisition of Cadsoft. After the acquisition, they redesigned the website and changed the domain name from cadsoftusa.com to cadsoft.io. It seems that Autodesk is going very fast toward sharing with community what they intend to do with...

Every maker and electronics hobbyist knows how hardware is messy. A lot of tools are needed in our labs like voltmeter, oscilloscope, breadboard, wires, power supply, etc. A startup form India designed a new platform called Evive as an all-in-one solution to build and debug your...

Thanks to Internet, the problem of time shifting in embedded and connected devices was solved using time synchronization over Internet. National Institute of Standards and Technology provides a service called Network Time Service (NTS) over the Internet. The project of ESP8266-based...

Sunburn Monitor is a UV monitor with sound-based indication. It calculates the max sun exposure before sunburn based on your skin type. The project was published over hackaday.io by [Quarterturn]. It's based around SI1132 light sensor from Silicon Labs. SI1132 is a UV index and...

It has been a while from the announcement of the new SoC ESP32 from Espressif. Recently, Espressif released the ESP-WROOM-32 module which is based on ESP32 SoC, the big brother of the well know ESP8266 WiFi module. ESP32 is a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip with dual CPU cores...

Moto Z Droid and Moto Z Force Droid are the new phones from Motorola. They run Android 6.0 on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC with a lot of other features. Motorola brought modularity to Moto Z using the hackable “Moto Mods” backplate expansion system. Motorola’s Moto Mods attach to...