MPPT Solar Charger Design based on PIC18F26J50
Lukas Fässler shares his Maximum Point Tracker Solar Charger Design based on PIC18F26J50: At the core of the design is a PIC18F26J50 in a 28 pin SOIC package. It’s capable of running at down to 2.15 volts and consumes extremely little power when running at lower clock speeds. And...
Continue ReadingCO2, temperature and humidity monitor
An open source CO2 monitoring project from Roving Dynamics: The project described below uses a MH-Z16 or MH-Z19 CO2 sensor and a DHT-22 (or DHT-11 if less accuracy is required) to measure the Temperature and Humidity. It has a 4 line by 20 character LCD Display to show the current...
Continue ReadingUltrasonic Anemometer Project Progress
Lukas Fässler discuss about his anemometer project progress and what tests he has performed so far. In the mean time I managed to do some rudimentary testing and now feel confident to take orders. These tests concern the hardware only. What I said last time about the state of the...
Continue Reading8 Channel Optically Isolated IO Board
Opto-Isolated I/O Board offers a compact & convenient way to interface industrial type inputs/outputs to your microcontroller boards, Signal transmission between circuits of different potentials and impedances etc. Specifications 4 opto-isolated inputs & 4 opto-isolated...
Continue ReadingUltra-low power, dual-band wireless microcontrollers from TI
Intended for tasks such as monitoring IoT networks from a handheld device, Texas Instruments' latest series of microcontrollers are single-chip Sub-1 GHz plus Bluetooth low energy ICs. By Graham Prophet @ www.edn-europe.com As part of TI’s pin-to-pin and software...
Continue ReadingInfinite Noise True Random Number Generator
waywardgeek @ github.com shares his USB TRNG: The Infinite Noise TRNG is a USB key hardware true random number generator. It uses what I call a "Modular Entropy Multiplier" architecture (previously Infinite Noise Multiplier or FireBug). Besides being simple, low-cost, and fast, it is...
Continue ReadingA20 Plus – WIFI/GPRS/GSM/CAMERA module
Raymond Tunning shares the information he found about the new A20 modules bought from taobao. A20 Plus - WIFI/GPRS/GSM/CAMERA module -...
Continue ReadingTiny Lisp Computer using ATmega328
The Tiny Lisp Computer is a self-contained computer programmed in Lisp. Some programming examples are included in the author's website. This article describes a self-contained computer with its own display and keyboard, based on an ATmega328, that you can program in Lisp. You can use...
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