App Note: Heat sink mounting guide
Fairchild Semiconductor’s app note on proper heat sink mounting to achieve lower thermal resistance between the package and its heat sink. Link here (PDF) This document provides guidelines for mounting heat sinks for the proper thermal management of power semiconductor devices in...
Continue ReadingHyper-local Weather Dashboard: Wunderground + Pi Sense HAT
by InitialState @ github.com: Let's face it, we humans talk about the weather a lot ⛅. The average person talks about the weather four times a day, for an average of 8 minutes and 21 seconds. Do the math and that totals 10 months of your life that you will spend yapping about the...
Continue ReadingDIY Capacitance Meter
electro-labs.com published another great project based on Atmega328P: We are building another opensource SoloPCB project which is very enjoyable to build and use. In our electronics works, we frequently need to know the actual value of a capacitor. As you know, small sized SMD...
Continue ReadingOpenduinoGSM an open source tool Arduino IDE compatible with Opengate project inside
Emanuele @ dev.emcelettronica.com: OpenduinoGSM is an open source tool for hobbyists & professional makers. The first project realized is the useful opengate (one ring with your phone and the gate is open). Inspired with OpenduinoGSM! With OpenduinoGSM you have the option of...
Continue ReadingArduino Project: Flappy Bird game Clone with a 1.8″ color TFT display (ST7735)
Educ8s.com @ youtube.com: Playing the Flappy Bird game on Arduino is extremely easy. With a cheap Arduino Uno and a very cheap 1.8" color TFT display (ST7735) you can enjoy the classic game, the best part? It is going to be a DIY project. Actually you can build your own gaming...
Continue ReadingRigol DSA875-TG 9kHz – 7.5GHz Spectrum Analyzer & Tracking Generator Review, Teardown & Experiments
Rigol DSA875-TG 9kHz - 7.5GHz Spectrum Analyzer & Tracking Generator Review, Teardown & Experiments -...
Continue ReadingSTM extend Nucleo range
by Martin Cooke @ elektormagazine.com STMicroelectronics has extended its range of STM32 Nucleo development boards with scalable, small-form-factor variants to support the 32-pin members of its STM32 microcontroller family. The STM32 Nucleo-32 boards come with support from a choice...
Continue ReadingCranial Electrotherapy Stimulator
This cranial electrotherapy stimulator is a medical treatment that makes use of electrical energy to treat anxiety, depression and insomnia. It is a therapeutic tool to help heal the body, which primarily uses an electrical current to stimulate nerves and muscles through the skin....
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