Jonathan Bruneau designed a $1/W maximum power point tracker used to extract maximum power from solar panels and published his project on hackaday.io: Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is a technique whereupon special electronics attempts to extract the optimal amount of energy...

Control your DSLR to take a picture every x seconds for x minutes, fully configurable via LCD menus. CameraShutter - Control your DSLR camera -...

Researchers from Jülich Research Center (Jülich, Germany) announced their new invention, a silicon-air battery. The new battery features high energy density so it’s a lighter and smaller battery solution. Silicon-air battery is made of silicon which means it’s cheap to make...

Texas Instruments (TI) announced the Qi-Certified Wireless Power (WPC) v1.2 solution for 15-W operation wireless power transmission for Smart Phones, Tablets, and Other Handheld devices, Point-of-Sale devices and other custom wireless power applications. Bq501210 supports...

SoildRun launched ClearFog Base, a SBC (Single Board Computer) designed for IoT and networking applications. ClearFog Base includes SoM (System on Module) designed by SolidRun too and it is based on Marvell’s ARMADA A388 SoC (System On Chip) with Dual core ARM Cortex A9 @ up to 1.6...

Distributor Conrad Business Supplies has the thermal multimeter 279 FC from Fluke, that combines a thermal imager with a fully-featured true RMS digital multimeter to enable faster and more thorough troubleshooting with a single tool. By Graham Prophet@...

Recently, Silicon Labs announced a new USB controller called CP2102N which is part of the USBXpress™ bridge devices family. CP2102N have a battery charger detect functionality to notify an external battery charger with the amount of current available from the USB interface (100 mA,...

[devttys0] designed a sensitive IR detector for capturing weak infrared signals. He shared in detail how he designed the circuit, beginning from the basic components, walking through solving the problems and finally ended up with a complete working circuit. Craig Heffner/[devttys0]...