PCBA Service Review – Comparing PCBWay vs LocoPCB vs PCBGogo vs Seeedstudio
Daniel Eichhorn @ blog.squix.org, shares his experience with some popular PCBA services and documents his finding on his blog. He writes: Until recently I believed that having PCBs assembled by a professional service is either too costly for small batches or not possible at all. That...
Continue ReadingBeagleBoard.org® Launches BeagleBone® AI
BeagleBoard.org® Launches BeagleBone® AI, Offering a Fast Track to Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence at the Edge. The BeagleBoard.org® Foundation today announces general availability of the newest, fastest, most powerful BeagleBoard.org® BeagleBone® low cost development...
Continue ReadingVCNL4020C – High Resolution Digital Biosensor for Wearable Applications
The VCNL4020C is a fully integrated biosensor and ambient light sensor. Fully integrated means that the infrared emitter is included in the package. It has 16 bit resolution. It includes a signal processing IC and features standard I2C communication interface. It features an interrupt...
Continue ReadingPC Hardware Monitor with Nokia 5110 Display and Arduino
Either for benchmarking purposes or as external telemetry to help you stay within the acceptable range for your computer power, super users usually have the desire to have a way of knowing what the performance numbers of your PC are. For today’s tutorial, we will build a PC Hardware...
Continue ReadingDifferential Microphone Pre-Amplifier
The project shown here is a microphone preamplifier that provides high quality amplification, optimized for use in computers, media and mobile applications. The pre-amplifier provides a differential input stage, making the device particularly effective when layout constraints force the...
Continue ReadingPiCAN3 CAN Bus HAT for Raspberry Pi 4 with 3A Power Supply And Real-Time Clock
Copperhill Technologies announced the release of its PiCAN3 CAN-Bus Board for the Raspberry Pi 4, adding Controller Area Network capabilities plus a real-time clock to the new Raspberry CPU. The PiCAN3 board with SMPS (Switch Mode Power Supply) provides CAN-Bus capabilities for the...
Continue ReadingSpartan Edge Accelerator Board – Arduino FPGA Shield with ESP32
Spartan Edge Accelerator Board is a Xilinx Spartan FPGA development board in the Arduino UNO shield form factor. With the onboard ESP32 chip, it can also provide WiFi and Bluetooth functions. Arduino - cheap to buy, easy to learn, simple to use, but can't deal with complex calculations...
Continue ReadingThree-phase, 1.25-kW, 200-VAC small form factor GaN inverter reference design for integrated drives
This reference design is a three-phase inverter with a continuous power rating of 1.25 kW at 50°C ambient and 550 W at 85°C ambient for driving 200-V AC servo motors. It features 600-V LMG3411R150 Gallium Nitride (GaN) power modules with an integrated FET and gate driver mounted on an...
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