The major component of this circuit is Microchip's SST89E54RDA-40-C-PIE, which is a pin-for-pin compatible with typical 8051 microcontroller devices. It has a built-in timer used to produce accurate time delay. The light emitting diode (LED) is connected through the 330Ω resistor to...

by Susan Nordyk @ edn.com: The ISL94203 battery-pack monitor IC from Intersil monitors, protects, and cell-balances three- to eight-cell rechargeable battery packs, supporting Li-ion CoO2, Li-ion Mn2O4, and Li-ion FePO4 chemistries. Its internal state machine has five preprogrammed...

blackmesalabs.wordpress.com has build a video system for Arduino boards: This post describes Mesa-Video, a low cost, low power, small size and fully Open Source Hardware and Software solution for providing 800×600 digital video for Arduino ( and other ) microcontrollers. Mesa-Video...

Noriaki Mitsunaga has build an Arduino Oscilloscope using minimum parts. He writes: I have created a simple Arduino Oscilloscope as above picture shows. Here is its summary. You can build your own! Arduino Oscilloscope -...

Zak's Electronics Blog published a new library and breakout board for MCP2221 USB to UART interface IC: This is a library for interfacing with the HID features of the MCP2221 USB to UART and I2C/SMBus serial converter from Microchip. The converter includes 4 GPIO pins, 3x 10-bit...

by guibom @ github.com: Basic ESP8266 + Attiny85 + DHT22 Temperature and Humidity logger. I've made this to experiment a bit with the ESP8266 wifi module, and hopefully make a remote sensor that posts the data to my server. I wrote the code to work with both an atmega328 and a...

The latest extruded aluminium enclosure from Hammond production - 1455 NHD is suitable even for devices requiring more intensive cooling. The latest addition to the family of the popular 1455 enclosure series is the enclosure with “NHD” suffix – where “HD” marks “Heat...

An application note from NXP on how to calculate the power dissipated by the triac: This Application Note describes how to calculate the power dissipation for triacs and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers. Thermal calculations are also included to help the circuit designer to predict the...