Blues Wireless’ New $50 Notecard LTE Card Comes With 10 Years of Prepaid Service
Blues Wireless has announced the new Notecard. It is a $50 LTE modem with 10 years of prepaid service. The company aims to eliminate all the data billing-related headaches that come with IoT devices while using the cellular network. The product comes with a single flat fee that includes...
Continue ReadingMeet Ollie – The Swiss Army Knife of Connectors
Two challenges field engineers face is the need to go around with multiple connectors and cables, and the ESD/over-voltage challenges faced when interfacing with high voltage devices. With the desire to help solve these challenges, Melbourne-based hardware designer Ali Slim, got to work...
Continue ReadingNext DFM: A PCBs Life-Saver?
Have you ever had problems with your PCB designs and had to remake any of them after having the "final" prototype in your hand? If you are one of these non-human geniuses that made only masterpiece-like, immaculate PCBs, please, throw the first stone. As we are not, and had to perform...
Continue ReadingSTMicroelectronics STEVAL-PTOOL1V1 BLDC Motor Driver for Battery-Powered Applications
Due to continuous developments in power electronics and advanced semiconductor devices, the brushless DC motor (BLDC), also known as the electronically commuted motor, is seen in commercial and industrial applications. If you are looking for a brushless motor design, this might aid your...
Continue ReadingSuper Sensor On A Chip can Monitor the Heart and Lungs using Sounds/Vibrations
Daily substantial advancements are being made in the world of wearables, especially for health-related applications. Most of our fantasies around real-time, round-the-clock, non-invasive, out-of-the-way, monitoring of health parameters are now beyond dreams as researchers continue to...
Continue Reading24 LEDs Bargraph Display using 74HC595 Shift Register
This project is built for fun-loving users to create a 24 LED bar-graph for light effects that can be driven using Arduino or another microcontroller. The project consists of 74HC595 x 3 chips, and 24 LEDs of Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow colors. The project helps the user to experiment...
Continue ReadingHelios64: A New DIY NAS by Kobol
It is undeniable that a NAS is an unbelievably useful equipment. Even though the cloud is making us question if we need one at times, it is better as a long-term solution, accounting for the higher investment in the beginning. Today, we will look at an ambitious open-source NAS, the...
Continue ReadingFour IQaudio add-ons to join the Raspberry Pi product line
A couple of days back, Raspberry Pi announced the four most popular IQAudio products to join the Raspberry Pi product line which, as the name suggests, are Audio add-ons. IQAudio previously sold expansion boards knowing the capabilities of Raspberry Pi for hi-fi audio. This is the...
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