ASRock announces Tiger Lake based Motherboards For Industrial Applications
When it comes to industrial PC motherboards, we all know ASRock has successfully launched some of the popular products. After the release of the ASRock iBOX 1100 rugged mini-PC, several months in, we saw the NUC 1100 Box Series mini-PCs powered by the 11th Generation Intel Core i7/i5/i3...
Continue ReadingPower Analysis: Probing WS2812 RGB LEDs
Power analysis is a technique to probe the inner workings of an integrated circuit by measuring changes in the supply current. Tim writes: Whenever a logic gate switches, it will cause a tiny current spike that can be measured externally. By inspecting the temporal variation,...
Continue ReadingHall Effect switches have self-diagnostics capability
Diodes Incorporated has announced a family of automotive-compliant, two-wire unipolar (AH323xQ/4xQ) and latch (AH327xQ/8xQ) switch integrated circuits (ICs) that provide high sensitivity and high stability over wide operating voltage and temperature ranges. The ICs are for use in...
Continue ReadingHigh Sensitivity Ultra-Low Power Tunneling Magnetoresistance TMR Switch
Littelfuse's TMR is a magnetically-triggered digital switch with high sensitivity and ultra-low power consumption Littelfuse's TMR switch is a digital magnetic switch that integrates tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) and CMOS technology to provide a magnetically-triggered digital...
Continue ReadingThe Launchpad – A $2 Arduino Nano alternative
Boards like the Arduino and Raspberry Pi have their origins, deep in education, either maker education as a way for people to express themselves (Arduino) or an affordable and portable way for people to learn about computers and programming (Raspberry Pi). The culture of creating...
Continue ReadingAledia – Pioneering nanowire microLED’s on 300 mm Wafers
We talk a lot about downsizing. It is, and always will be on the top priority list of the world of electronics. Without smaller sizes, we would never have gotten to this state, where our projects can be housed in a small PCB and ran on an ATTiny mcu. It is one of the most fascinating...
Continue ReadingHackboard 2 Intel Gemini Lake Based SBC Features Windows 10 Pro
Hackboard, a Texas-based startup has launched a campaign on Crowdsupply for Hackboard 2, which is a new single-board computer (SBC) designed from the ground up to be one of the most powerful and affordable Windows-capable, Intel-based computers ever. The SBC features optional 4G or 5G...
Continue ReadingESP32-M1 Reach Out is a compact and richly-featured ESP32-M1 dev board with up to 1.2 km Wi-Fi range
Bison Science is preparing to launch a project that aims to be a perfect solution to the Wi-Fi range limitations of existing boards, called the ESP32-M1 Reach Out Development Board. The ESP32-M1 Reach Out development board is said to increase range up to two to three times, and is...
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