by Nathan Seidle @ makezine.com: The Digital Beehive uses Wi-Fi to broadcast a beehive’s weight, humidity, temperature, and battery voltage every minute to SparkFun’s data channel service called Phant. The raw data can be seen here but you can view some prettier graphs of the...

by Graham Prophet @ edn-europe.com: To meet what the company sees as a gap in the available range of energy storage solutions, Murata has developed the UMAC, a small, high-capacity cylinder-type energy device for use in wearable and wireless sensor applications. Although lithium-ion...

Floyd-Jones designed his own business card using logic circuitry. He writes: The card implements a digital finite-state machine which displays the next character of my last name on a 7-segment display each time the button is pressed. Luckily all 11 characters in my name can be...

by Zoe Romano @ blog.arduino.cc: We are excited to announce that Arduino Wifi Shield 101 developed with Atmel is now available for purchase on the Arduino Store US (49.90$). Arduino WiFi Shield 101 is a powerful IoT shield with crypto-authentication that connects your Arduino or...

Succeed with your Innovations by building reliable, high quality electronic circuits. by JIGMOD: Most electronic components aren't compatible with breadboards. JIGMOD bridges the gap between those components and your breadboard. Don't work hard - work smart! Avoid wasted time spent...

by circuitstoday.com: This project is about a simple humidity sensor based on 8051 microcontroller. Humidity sensor is also called hygrometer. This circuit can sense relative humidity (RH) from 20% to 95% at an accuracy of 5%. The humidity information is displayed on a 16×2 LCD...

by Giuseppe Finizia @ makezine.com: I am the Senior Analyst of the Electronic Forensics Unit of the Carabinieri (Italian Military Police) and I deal with technical investigations on seized electronic devices. I spend most of my day in a well-equipped electronic laboratory, but I was...

by Graham Prophet @ edn-europe.com: Sensor and mixed-signal IC specialist ams (Graz, Austria) has applied optical detection techniques to produce a sensor capable of accurate heart rate measurement; the company says its device is the first “total solution for 24/7 heart rate...