Smartphone Solar charger card
Here is a nice idea of a business card solar smartphone charger with USB plug. The charger is 3mm thick and can provide 50mA @ 5V Smartphone Solar charger card -...
Continue ReadingAtmel SAM D09 Development board
Dan Watson has designed a development board for the Atmel SAM D09 microcontroller: The Atmel SAM D series of 32-bit microcontrollers includes several devices, each with a long list of features at great prices. Perhaps the best known of the series in the maker community is the SAM D21...
Continue ReadingBuilding a “$5 Forth computer”
Ken Boak has designed a tiny 16-bit computer around a FRAM based MSP430 microcontroller. He writes: In this post we look at a new MSP430 FRAM based device – the MSP430FR2433. It has 15K of FRAM, 0.5K of Info FRAM and 4K bytes of SRAM. As well as the memory, there are 3 serial...
Continue ReadingInternet-Connected Migrane or Allergies Detector
adafruit has published an IoT Migrane or Allergies Detector. This project uses Feather HUZZAH ESP8266 wireless microcontroller board to pull a forecast from the accuweather.com web site, then distills this to its barest essence: good news or bad news? An ambient information...
Continue ReadingESP12e + OLED display – a try to make a smartwatch
morethanuser.blogspot.com has been trying to make a smartwatch based on ESP12e and they document their efforts. Esp12e is configured as an access point and the "watch" is able to show some usefull information, but it's not a complete watch yet. I does not have any fancy features like...
Continue ReadingBeagleCore Schematics and Gerbers Released
BEAGLECORE™ is licenced under Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA). They have published a ZIP-file containing all relevant information on footprint, schematics, BOM and many more for BEAGLECORE™ BCM1 & BCS1 Miniaturized computer module for industrial or commercial applications...
Continue ReadingST TS951 – 3 MHz BiCMOS R2R OPAMP
A new 3 MHz BiCMOS Die Shot from zeptobars.com ST TS951 - 3 MHz BiCMOS R2R OPAMP -...
Continue ReadingEspruino: JavaScript for Things
Espruino is the world's first JavaScript microcontroller. With it you are able to develop intelligent devices quickly and easily. Espruino is a small computer that anyone can use to control things around them. Its JavaScript interpreter gives you instant feedback so that you can...
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