circuitspecialists.com has published a new guide on how to build your own 8x8 LED Matrix on a prototyping board. In a later guide they will show how to program it using an Arduino Compatible board. Today we will be starting our adventure into the deeply complex, yet totally...

USBpicprog is an open source Microchip PIC programmer for the USB port based on PIC18F2550. PC Software, Firmware and Hardware are open source and available for free. The hardware is built around a microchip PIC18F2550, this microcontroller has on board USB capabilities. The...

morethanuser.blogspot.com has a guide on how to add a touch screen on a Siglent SDS1022c Oscilloscope. For that purpose he used an Arduino Nano and a touch screen panel from Prestigo 7" tablet. He discuss about the keyboard protocol, the display driver and the touch screen and shows...

Microchip Technology announced MPLAB Xpress, a new cloud based development environment to provide an easy way to get started with PIC microcontrollers. Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today...

The German company Heliatek has developed new OPV multi-junction solar cells with an efficiency of 13.2%. This is a world record for organic solar cells. Thanks to the excellent low light and high temperature behavior of the organic semiconductor, the electricity generation of the...

Glen Chenier @ edn.com wanted to find out the characteristics of an unknown diode to be able to replace it with an equivalent one so he decided to make some measurements using his test equipment. In this article he show us how to measure the junction capacitance, Cj, and reverse...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have revealed a unique phototransistor that is flexible and faster and more responsive than any similar phototransistor. The innovative phototransistor could improve the performance of myriad products -- ranging from digital...

This is an Arduino powered Weather Station Project that can run on batteries for almost a year! In order to achieve that we use a bare ATMEGA328 chip along with some accurate sensors. We use the DHT22 temperature and humidity sensor, a BMP180 barometric pressure sensor, a BH1750 light...