Michael Krumpus designed and built a SAMD21 development board with LoRa radio module and GPS receiver, that is available on GitHub: I’ve been doing some LoRa projects lately in order to learn as much as I can about this exciting new radio technology (see this LoRa mesh networking...

Sensirion presents its latest liquid flow sensor, the SLF3S-1300F, at the Electronica and COMPAMED 2018 trade fairs. By combining Sensirion’s excellent 20-year track record in low and lowest flow rate sensing with a radically optimized mechanical design, the SLF3S-1300F takes the...

Reutlingen/Munich, Germany – At electronica Munich, Bosch Sensortec announces the BHI160BP, the industry’s first Position Tracking Smart Sensor that utilizes integrated inertial sensors to improve GPS location tracking. Always-on position tracking When used with a GPS or GNSS...

Small temperature/humidity/atmospheric pressure monitor using Sigfox to transfer the data. Powered by solar energy to monitor beehives. We wanted to monitor beehive remotely and online. You would say it is easy to use mobile data for such purpose. But there are some cons: The coverage...

This is a Tiny Serial Terminal based on ATtiny85 and 256x64 OLED SH1122 display able to show 42 characters per line. David Johnson-Davies writes: This article describes a text display based on a 256x64 OLED display that provides 8 lines of 42 characters per line. Its width makes it...

MechaTracks has announced a CAT4 4G LTE HAT board for the Raspberry Pi called 4GPi. The 4GPi is the first commercially produced add-on board which enables CAT4 LTE connectivity for the Raspberry Pi, enabling 150Mbps download and 50Mbps upload speed. The 4GPi sells for ¥25000 JPY yen or...

UrsaLeo Pi based on Raspberry Pi compute engine cuts costs and unleashes full capabilities of Thunderboard™2 sensor module. UrsaLeo Pi kit, which combines a Raspberry Pi 3 and a 2.4GHz radio equipped Silicon Labs Thunderboard 2 sensor board that connects to Google Cloud, has been...

The SPS30 particulate matter sensor is now available worldwide through Sensirion’s distribution network. The SPS30 particulate matter (PM) sensor is the next technological breakthrough in optical PM sensors. Its measurement principle is based on laser scattering and makes use of...