MEAS: five weather sensors on one Arduino shield
by Jan Buiting @ elektormagazine.com: In a stint of list-o-mania TE Connectivity have slapped five environmental sensors on a single board called MEAS for plugging onto the Arduino/Genuino 101 and Uno R3. Here goes in telegram style. MEAS: five weather sensors on one Arduino shield...
Continue ReadingIntel(r) Quark(tm) micrcontroller D2000 based Environmental sensors board
Sergey Kiselev designed and built an Intel Quark D2000 micrcontroller based Environmental sensors board: This is a fairly small (51 x 51 mm) board, equipped with a low power Intel Quark D2000 microcontroller, and several sensors (accelerator, temperature, humidity, atmospheric...
Continue ReadingSupercapacitors Surpassing Conventional Batteries
Researchers at the University of Central Florida have been looking for alternatives for lithium rechargeable batteries which are largely used in every device. Using two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) capacitive materials, they are building a new supercapacitor...
Continue ReadingBluetooth 5 Is Here!
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has officially launched the core specifications of the new version of Bluetooth: Bluetooth 5. These specifications include longer range, faster speed, and larger broadcast message capacity, as well as improved interoperability and coexistence...
Continue ReadingSemiconductor radioactivity detector
Robert Gawron has been working on a semiconductor radioactivity detector project: Currently I’m trying to make a working version of a radioactivity detector that uses semiconductor as a sensor. It’s a different approach than Geiger-Muller detectors, more complicated, but also...
Continue ReadingFirst Solid-State Multi-Ion Sensor for Internet-of-Things Applications By Imec & Holst Centre
At last week's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco (USA), imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nano-electronics and digital technology and Holst Centre debuted a miniaturized sensor that simultaneously determines pH and chloride...
Continue ReadingMaking An Arduino I2C Digital Clock
Using Adafruit's 0.56" 7-segment LED backpack and display and the DS1307 RTC (Real Time Clock) board, this tutorial will guide you to make a simple 4-digit clock that uses only 2 Arduino pins. The 7-Segment Backpack is a combination of the LED display, header pins, and a PCB which need...
Continue ReadingTibbo Technology Announces TIDE Release 5.03.03 that features TiOS Simulator
New Tibbo IDE (TIDE) release 5.03.03 includes a Tibbo OS (TiOS) Simulator. The Simulator implements a virtual TiOS device incorporating virtual Ethernet interface, virtual EEPROM, virtual flash memory, virtual MD button, buzzer, and status LEDs, as well as virtual LCD and...
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