With the increase in the demand for 9V PP3 batteries, there is a significant need for an efficient charger. One might be able to find several PP3 batteries that are manufactured majority being NiMH, however, there is an alternative of Li-Ion batteries. This has made it difficult to get...

High contrast applications (day to night) require high dimming ratios, and ADI's LT3950 provides up to 20,000:1 dimming ratio, providing high dynamic range dimming for day/night vision. The flexibility to combine with analog input dimming provides accurate LED brightness control and...

New Japan Radio’s improved reference voltage accuracy shunt regulator is suited for industrial or home applications NJR's NJM17431 is an adjustable precision shunt regulator where the output voltage may be set to any value between VREF (about 2.5 V) and 36 V by two resistors. The...

Broadcom's ASCB-UTC2-0A30B tricolor PLCC-6 LEDs feature a full black body appearance that enhances the contrast of the display The Broadcom ASCB-UTC2 is a tricolor PLCC-6 LED with individually addressable pins for each color. The package is 2.8 mm × 2.8 mm and is targeted for a...

FLIR Lepton 3.0 and 3.5 Micro Thermal Camera Modules offer 160 x 120 active pixels and <50mK thermal sensitivity in a small 11.8mm x 12.7mm x 7.2mm package. The 3.0 module is non-radiometric, while the 3.5 module has a radiometric thermal imaging system. Both modules feature a CCI...

We have covered several LoRaWAN Gateway modules, with one of the latest being the Seeed Studio’s WM1302. However, for those who don’t know much about wireless communication protocols, then LoRaWAN and LoRa are two different things and are not interchangeable. To understand in short,...

Recently, Minnesota-based embedded electronic device manufacturer Beacon EmbeddedWorks has released a new development kit that lets you add their in-house SOMs that are widely used to reduce time to market. The all-new Zoom i.MX 8M Mini Development Kit gets support for Beacon...

Many of us plan to turn Raspberry Pi or a similar single-board computer into a retro music player. There are several projects that we discussed using Raspberry Pi as a controller to build an 80s style music player. However, these projects use bulky hardware, which may not be as portable...