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Accelerometers for vibration measurements & wireless condition monitoring
Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com discuss about two new MEMS accelerometers from Analog Devices: Analog Devices (ADI) has added two devices to its low noise, low drift, low power, three-axis MEMS accelerometers. The low noise performance over high frequencies provided by the...
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Open Source UV Index Detector
Boris Landoni @ open-electronics.org documents his UV index detector. It measures solar radiation and visualizes the corresponding value on the integrated display of a miniaturized Arduino, in order to tell us when to expose ourselves to the sun… Open Source UV Index Detector -...
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SEPIC/Ćuk converter sprouts second output
by Gheorghe Plasoianu @ edn.com Many applications require positive and negative supply voltages, with only one voltage requiring tight regulation. This Design Idea describes a dual-output, hybrid SEPIC-Ćuk converter whose positive output voltage can be lesser or greater than the...
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Reverse engineering the 76477 sound effect chip
Ken Shirriff has written an article on reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound effect chip: Remember the old video game Space Invaders? Some of its sound effects were provided by a chip called the 76477 Complex Sound Generation chip. While the sound effects1 produced...
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Free PADS PCB packages from Mentor/Digi-Key
by Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com: Two versions of the PADS software package (by Mentor, now a Siemens business) have been made available through distributor Digi-Key. Positioned as design software for “the aspiring innovator” both the free and the $499 versions include...
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Embedded vision development kit targets mobile & ‘edge’ applications
by Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com: Lattice Semiconductor positions its Embedded Vision Development Kit as the first of its type, that is optimized for mobile-influenced system designs that require flexible, low cost, and low power image processing architectures, by which the...
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Printed Two-Dimensional Transistors
Researchers from AMBER (Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research) and Trinity College (Dublin), together with the TU Delft have succeeded in producing printed transistors, which are made solely from two-dimensional nano materials. These materials have characteristics with...
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Zephyr Project Hosted by Linux Foundation — Yet Another RTOS for IoT
What is Zephyr? Zephyr is a small footprint IoT RTOS (less than 10kB) with no user-space and dynamic allocation which make it suitable to run on resource-constrained platforms. Moreover, it's modular and supports multiple architectures, including ARM, X86,ARC, NIOS-II and...
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