LSM6DSL – 3D accelerometer and 3D gyroscope
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LSM6DSL – 3D accelerometer and 3D gyroscope

Two low-power 6-axis inertial modules introduced from STMicroelectronics, the LSM6DSL and LSM6DSM. Both they pack a 3-D digital accelerometer and a 3-D digital gyroscope in a miniature package. These modules consume 0.4 mA in combo normal mode and 0.65 mA in combo high-performance...

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Control a High Power 4W COB LED with Arduino Uno
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Control a High Power 4W COB LED with Arduino Uno

educ8s.tv has published a new Arduino Video tutorial: High Power LEDs are very popular and low cost nowadays so I thought it would be a good idea to learn how control them with Arduino. So, I built a simple project that simply turns on a 4W Cob LED when the button is pressed. When...

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The incredible story behind the Gerber PCB file format
PCB

The incredible story behind the Gerber PCB file format

Max Maxfield @ edn.com writes about the famous Gerber format and the history behind it. Gerber format is actually an ASCII vector format that defines copper layers, solder mask, legends on a PCB and it's used by manufacturing companies to produce the actual PCB. The incredible...

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Raspberry Pi 2 Web Hosting – Full Email Server & Web Server
Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 2 Web Hosting – Full Email Server & Web Server

LDSrelience shared this video on Youtube! This is a short video going over a project I just finished to prove that a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (new as of February 2015) can run a light duty website and low volume email server. I have installed Apache2 for the web server, which takes...

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SK6812 – a new intelligent RGB LED
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SK6812 – a new intelligent RGB LED

Tim discuss about a new RGB LED that appeared on the market: During the last months, a new WS2812 alternative appeared on the market: The SK6812. I finally managed to get my hands on some of them to take a closer look. In most aspects these devices are basically clones of the WS2812....

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Eye Diagram Basics: Reading and applying eye diagrams
Basic Electronics

Eye Diagram Basics: Reading and applying eye diagrams

Deepak Behera, Sumit Varshney, Sunaina Srivastava, and Swapnil Tiwari discuss about using an oscilloscope to create eye diagrams and quickly evaluate system performance and gain. Accelerating data rates, greater design complexity, standards requirements, and shorter cycle times put...

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Passive Wi-Fi – Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions
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Passive Wi-Fi – Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions

Bryce Kellogg, Vamsi Talla, Shyam Gollakota, Joshua R. Smith have published an research article discussing Passive Wi-Fi  transmission that consumes 3 - 4 orders of magnitude lower power than existing Wi-Fi chipsets. Passive Wi-Fi transmissions can be decoded on any Wi-Fi device...

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Controlling Arduino using your Voice
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Controlling Arduino using your Voice

bluehybrid @ instructables.com shows us how to use your voice to control a led light on Arduino. To achieve this he used the 1Sheeld Arduino shield. This Project is getting start to use arduino with 1Sheeld In this project we will turn an LED (ON) and turn it (OFF) by...

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