Arduino Tutorial: Color OLED SSD1331 display with Arduino Uno
In this video educ8s.tv shows us how to use the Color OLED display with the SSD1331 driver with Arduino. It's very easy! A few weeks ago, I discovered this promising new display on Banggood.com and I thought that it might be useful in some of our projects so I bought it right away....
Continue ReadingOmniblox – Eagle BRD 3D viewer update
Omniblox, the Eagle .brd 3D viewer we previously covered here has released a new version that uses fonts and corrects rotation issues in silk screens. Code and instructions available on github. Omniblox – Eagle BRD 3D viewer update -...
Continue ReadingBuilding A Quadcopter For Newbie
Drones are one of the rising technologies in the world and it became very popular that we see it in news on places that have armed conflicts, aerial photography like GoPro drones and even for customer care like the Prime Air delivery system from Amazon which is designed to get packages to...
Continue ReadingIntroduction to I²C and SPI protocols
byteparadigm.com has a nice introductory article on I2C and SPI protocols: Today, at the low end of the communication protocols, we find I²C (for ‘Inter-Integrated Circuit’, protocol) and SPI (for ‘Serial Peripheral Interface’). Both protocols are well-suited for...
Continue ReadingBenefits of Using A Buck-Boost Converter As A Pre-regulator For LDOs
Intersil published a new white paper titled “Preventing Subsystem Brownouts in Mobile Devices“. This white paper demonstrates the benefit of using a buck-boost converter as a pre-regulator, which leads to better overall system efficiency and enhanced battery life. Systems...
Continue ReadingIntersil’s Switching Regulators Adopted in Huawei P9 Smartphone
Intersil announces the adoption of its latest family of buck-boost switching regulators in one of Huawei's newest smartphone. The ISL91110 buck-boost switching regulator powers the Huawei P9 smartphone's key system peripherals providing excellent efficiency and performance....
Continue ReadingAdding ADC to Microcontrollers without ADC
Scott @ swharden.com show us how to interface an analog signal to a microcontroller that doesn't have an ADC. I recently had the need to carefully measure a voltage with a microcontroller which lacks an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and I hacked together a quick and dirty method...
Continue ReadingAnalog front-end IC linearizes sensors
Susan Nordyk @ edn.com discuss about LTC2986 which is able to digitize and linearize a combination of temperature sensors in Celsius or Fahrenheit degrees. A 10-channel temperature-measurement IC, the LTC2986 from Linear Technology directly digitizes any combination of thermocouples,...
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