Susan Nordyk @ edn.com writes: Small enough for wearable devices, STMicroelectronics’ LIS2DW12 three-axis accelerometer draws only 50 nA in standby mode and 380 nA in low-power mode at a 1.6-Hz output data rate, adding negligible load on the battery. Operating from a supply voltage...

by Graham Prophet @ edn-europe.com: Allegro MicroSystems has added two 0˚ to 360˚ angle sensor ICs that provide contactless high-resolution angular position information based on magnetic Circular Vertical Hall (CVH) technology. Allegro has incorporated advanced diagnostics to...

Simple 3 Phase Arduino energy meter from The DIY Life: Again, with this meter I was going for simplicity. Sure, for perfectly accurate measurements you need to measure both the supply current and voltage but for this application and in the interests of keeping the energy meter simple...

With the advent of IoT technologies and decreasing cost of wireless sensors, the use of remote healthcare monitoring systems is growing rapidly, thereby allowing health care access to more people at affordable costs. To illustrate the concept of IoT based patient monitoring, Raj from...

techrm @ instructables.com has a tutorial on a nice thermohydrometer: These 7 steps will drive you through the "construction" of a thermo-hygrometer with clock on Arduino UNO. Data and time, humidity and temperature will be shown on a LCD 16x2 display .If you have purchased a LCD...

Arduino's newest board, the Arduino 101 is finally here... It has an Intel Curie processor, and an on-board gyroscope, accelerometer, and Bluetooth. Let's see how it stacks up to the Uno, and find out what each of the components on the board do. At the end of the video, I go through...

by Jan Buiting @ elektormagazine.com: Harvard University researchers have developed a low-cost flow battery that stores energy in organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH water. In their report (see below) they claim that the new battery can run for a decade or more without...

The circuit presented here is based on LM317. Generally, LM317 is known as a linear regulator IC, but here the circuit operates as a switching regulator. This circuit operates by transferring energy from the input to the output by using a solid state switch. Power Efficiency of a...