AutoPi makes your car intelligent
What if your car was intelligent like KITT in the 80's TV show Knight Rider? With AutoPi all cars become intelligent and can have eyes, ears and a voice. Until now all functionality and data from cars have belonged only to the manufacturers. With AutoPi the car owners can, as a...
Continue ReadingDiamond-Based MOSFETs Are Now Real
A research group at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed logic circuits equipped with diamond-based metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs) at two different operation modes - a first step toward the development of diamond integrated...
Continue ReadingMeet Spritzer, Sony New Arduino
Sony has recently launched one of its new products, Spritzer! Spritzer is an Arduino-compatible board for IoT applications that has built-in GPS, audio codec, and low power consumption. While it is Arduino-compatible, the board allows any developer to easily start app development using...
Continue ReadingLearn Arduino Easily with The Arduino Inventor’s Guide
Are you looking for Arduino tutorials? Already over-whelmed by the guides and videos available on the internet? Sparkfun is making Arduino and electronics easier for you with its new book " The Arduino Inventor's Guide"! First of all, the authors of this book , Brian Huang and Derek...
Continue Reading1Amp Constant Current LED Driver Shield for Arduino Nano
1A Constant current LED driver shield for Arduino Nano has been designed for verity of LED related applications. The shield provides accurate LED current sink to regulate LED current in a string of LEDs or single LED. The LED current is mirrored from the current flowing from the RSET...
Continue ReadingChromatron – Wifi Pixel Controller
Chromatron is an open source Wifi pixel controller designed to make LED pixel projects easy and fun. Hi, I'm Jeremy! I've designed a toolkit for making art with LED pixel strips, and I'd like to share it with you! Chromatron takes custom designed hardware and feature-packed firmware,...
Continue ReadingHow to Select a Voltage Regulator
Sanket @ octopart.com tipped us with his latest blog post about voltage regulators and how to select them. All electronics projects need power. Power can come from either stored energy in a battery, or directly from mains AC voltage or DC power from renewable sources such as solar...
Continue Reading“Ultimate Electronics” is a Free Interactive Electronics Textbook
The creator of the CircuitLab simulation software, now used in electronics courses at MIT, CMU, and other top universities, has just released the first few chapters of a new book. It's called "Ultimate Electronics: Practical Circuit Design and Analysis," and it's available free online....
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