Mouser & SamacSys Offer Engineers Free PCB Footprints, Schematic Symbols and 3D Models
Mouser Electronics, Inc. the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader empowering innovation, is pleased to announce a new partnership with SamacSys, a global leader in electronic component library solutions. Under the new partnership, announced at electronica 2018 in Munich, Mouser will...
Continue ReadingBuilding a Transistor Curve Tracer
paulv @ paulvdiyblogs.net designed and build a transistor curve tracer and documents the process on his personal blog. He writes: It's not that I use a Curve Tracer that much, but if you want to categorize or really measure the parameters of a discrete component, there is really no...
Continue Reading96Boards Sophon BM1880 SBC comes with AI and RISC-V core
Bitmain has announced a "Sophon BM1880 EDB" 96Boards CE SBC which features their new Sophon BM1880 AI chip plus dual Cortex-A53 cores running Linux OS. Also available, are the RISC-V MCU and optional Raspberry Pi and Arduino modules. Popular for their vending of bitcoin mining chips and...
Continue ReadingINA381A1 Overcurrent detection circuit
Sample overcurrent detection circuit from Texas Instruments. Click link below to download PDF. This is a unidirectional current sensing solution generally referred to as overcurrent protection (OCP) that can provide an overcurrent alert signal to shut off a system for a threshold...
Continue ReadingPowMeter Shield Nano – Tiny power monitor shield for Arduino
The powerful, tiny power monitor shield for your Arduino Nano. Constantly and completely monitor your Arduino project’s power consumption with the PowMeter shield. This versatile solution replaces up to four multimeters with a ten gram device. Advantages of PowMeter Nano: A...
Continue ReadingCurrentRanger – Auto-ranging current meter
Felix designed a precision Auto-ranging nanoAmp ammeter with loads of features. He writes: CurrentRanger is a nanoAmp current meter featuring auto-ranging, uni/bi-directional modes, bluetooth data logging options and more. It is a highly hackable and affordable ultra...
Continue ReadingSony’s Spresense Multicore Microcontroller made for IoT development
Spresense is a compact development board based on Sony’s power-efficient multicore microcontroller CXD5602. It allows developers to create IoT applications in a very short time and is supported by the Arduino IDE as well as the more advanced NuttX based SDK. Integrated GPS -...
Continue ReadingI2C GPS Module with NMEA decoding
David Johnson-Davies designed a GPS module that decodes the NMEA sentences on ATtiny841, and this also runs the I2C slave routine. He writes: This is a compact GPS module with an I2C interface, making it easy to read the GPS parameters from another project without needing to worry...
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