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Two books for makers that you should read!
educ8s.tv uploaded the last video of this season and it's a different one! The first one, is this: Practical Electronics for Inventors. Since I studied computer science and not electronics engineering at University, I needed to find a good book to study electronics myself. After a...
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Entry Level auto-ranging Digital Multimeters reviewed
If you want to buy a digital multi-meter for under $50 then this article is for you. It compares 8 models fitting the certain criteria. With the current DIY/Maker movement in full swing, one thing that almost all of us need is a good Multi-meter. When shopping for one, it was decided...
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Bridging ISM radio and wifi for lunch money
Johan discuss about ISM/Wifi bridge using RFM69, code and schematics is available on github. The ESP8266 has taken the maker community by storm and the hype is well deserved. Before the ESP we had the HopeRF ISM radio RFM12 and its successor RFM69. So is the ESP8266 an RFM69...
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ARM bought by Japanese Softbank for 32 billion dollars
by Jan Buiting @ elektormagazine.com: Confirmed last Monday (18 July 2016): 100%-thinkware-firm-and-brilliant-bunch-of-Cambridge-mathematicians/computer-scientists, ARM, is to be bought by Japan's Softbank for £24 bn ($32 bn). In official words: the board of ARM is expected to...
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“Chipiplexing” efficiently drives multiple LEDs using few microcontroller ports
by Guillermo Jaquenod @ edn.com Actual microcontrollers have powerful bidirectional I/O ports, and you can use different techniques to fully exploit such capabilities. Recent Design Ideas described the “Charlieplexing” method as an effective way to drive M=N×(N–1) LEDs using...
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TV Tuner IR remote with a PIC16F684
Tahmid built a TV tuner IR remote with a PIC16F684: I then proceeded to write an IR transmitter using the PIC16F684 (using the MPLAB X IDE and XC8 compiler), following the timing information from the extended NEC protocol. In order to connect all the keys, I connected them in...
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Homebrew Multimode Digital Voice Modem adapter
Florian Wolters made his own version of MMDVM adapter: During experiments with digital voice mode in hamradio I discovered a nice project describing an adapter for D-Star, DMR and other digital modes based on an Arduino Due and a little PCB to be put on top. This unit is called the...
Continue Reading![Not a battery or a supercap, but a ‘thin laminate energy device’ Not a battery or a supercap, but a ‘thin laminate energy device’](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/160720edne-murata-umal_pr.jpg)
Not a battery or a supercap, but a ‘thin laminate energy device’
Murata’s UMAL is a low-profile high capacity energy device. Designed to meet the demand for a slim high capacity energy source with a maintenance-free extended life cycle in wireless sensor nodes, the UMAL has charge/discharge and life-cycle characteristics superior to conventional...
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