WaRP7 – A New Platform For IOT And Wearable Technology Applications
“WaRP7” is a new platform which increases developer’s opportunity to innovate and bring new products to the market by smoothing and speed up the development process of IoT applications and wearable technologies. WaRP7 is a $85 platform designed by “Farnell element14”. It...
Continue ReadingESP8266 Wifi enabled 8×64 pixel LED matrix display
Raj @ embedded-lab.com build an ESP8266 based led matrix display. This matrix is a modification of his previous bluetooth version and uses an ESP8266 as a web server to setup the display message. No other microcontroller is used to control the display so things are kept simple and...
Continue ReadingA very simple DIY solar-powered USB charger
Raj @ embedded-lab.com tipped us with his latest project. It's a simple, but useful USB Solar powered charger able to charge a power bank or your smartphone. Yesterday, I built a very simple DIY solar-powered USB charger for my TP-link 10400mAh USB Power Bank. All I needed was a...
Continue ReadingAir pressure sensors in smartphones
Dr. Thomas Block has a great article about air pressure measurement on smartphones and which benefits this may have. Today’s smartphones utilize a wide array of accelerometers, gyroscopes and various other sensors in their designs. Relatively unknown is the barometric pressure...
Continue ReadingBasic Electronics – How to use a 555 Timer
Do you want to know how to use a 555 timer? Laura brings you more Back to School tips and tricks on using this integrated circuit. Basic Electronics - How to use a 555 Timer -...
Continue ReadingCircuit provides cold-junction compensation
Mark Maddox @ edn.com has a design idea on cold-junction compensation using AD7708. The accuracy of any circuit or system that uses a thermocouple to determine the temperature of a process is limited by the accuracy of the method used to perform cold-junction compensation. In a...
Continue Reading100Vin, 5W out regulator uses primary-side control
LT8303 is a monolithic flyback regulator in a TSOT-23 package that simplifies the design of isolated DC/DC converters. By sampling the isolated output voltage directly from the primary-side flyback waveform, the part requires no opto-isolator, LT1431 or third winding for regulation....
Continue ReadingLow noise Mini Electret Microphone PreAmplifier
The single supply microphone pre-amplifier amplifies the output signal of an electret capsule microphone to audio line levels. An op amp is used as a trans-impedance amplifier to convert the output current from the microphone in to a signal level voltage. The circuit works with 9V so...
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