Characteristics and applications of fast recovery epitaxial diodes
Read about epitaxial ultrafast diodes in thia app note from IXYS. (PDF) During the last 10 years, power supply topology has undergone a basic change. Power supplies of all kinds are now constructed so that heavy and bulky 50/60 Hz mains transformers are no longer necessary. These...
Continue ReadingSYZYGY Brain-1 – FPGA development platform featuring the SYZYGY standard
SYZYGY Brain-1 is an open source, modular ARM + FPGA development platform featuring the new SYZYGY standard for high-performance peripherals. This new development board bridges the gap between Pmods and FMCs allowing high performance peripherals to be used with ease. The author claims...
Continue ReadingUniversal OpAmp Evaluation Board Using LMV321
The Universal Op-Amp Development board is a general purpose blank circuit board that simplify prototyping circuits for a variety of Op-Amp circuits. The evaluation module board design allows many different circuits to be constructed easily and quickly. This board supports single SOT23-5...
Continue ReadingArduino Nano to PIC40/28 Pin Shield
Arduino Nano to PIC40/28 PIN development shield is an extension for Arduino Nano. This project is useful to create many projects using PIC40/28PIN shield published on electronics-lab.com, refer to schematic and connection diagram to use this shield. Two on board regulators are provided...
Continue ReadingDistance Measuring Sensor Shield for Arduino Nano Using GP2Y0D810Z0F
The project published here is a distance measuring sensor shield for Arduino Nano including power driver BJT transistor to drive a load like solenoid, motor or LED. This project can be used as Arduino shield or as stand-alone sensor. GP2Y0D810Z0F from Sharp is heart of the project, The...
Continue ReadingRotary Encoder with Arduino and Nokia 5110 LCD Tutorial
Today we will take a look at using a rotary encoder with Arduino and displaying rotation data on the Nokia 5110 LCD display. A rotary encoder is an Electro-mechanical device that converts angular position or the rotation of a shaft into analog or digital values. By turning the shaft to...
Continue ReadingxaVNA – A low cost two port Vector Network Analyzer
xaVNA is a simple and cheap vector network analyzer that allows you to easily tune up antennas, filters, and amplifiers by plugin it to USB. It is able to display smith charts/graphs on the including PC software. The main board connects to a PC through usb and communicates via a...
Continue ReadingCOLIBRÌ: the driver for RGBW LEDs
Boris Landoni @ open-electronics.org designed COLIBRI, a board able to drive 4 color LEDs. He writes: Recently some multicoloured power LEDs have appeared on the market and, differently from the more common RGB LEDs, they incorporate a white LED, as an addition: they are named RGBW...
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