How to Create Inverted Silkscreen in Cadsoft Eagle
If you’re one of EAGLE CAD fans, and you were wondering how some boards like Arduino boards have what's called a negative silkscreen, hollow rectangles or shapes by text or logo, then you will learn how to do it with Ishaan’s video tutorial. Ishaan used a ULP called...
Continue ReadingHow to interface OLED 0.96inch LCD with Arduino
This tutorial is going to teach you the basics on using OLED 0.96inch LCD128x64 with Arduino. OLED 0.96 inch is a monochrome graphic display module with a built-in 0.96 inch, 128X64 high-resolution display. OLED 0.96inch is able to work despite the absence of backlight. In a dark...
Continue ReadingTwo 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...
Continue ReadingEntry 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...
Continue ReadingBridging 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...
Continue ReadingARM 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...
Continue Reading“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...
Continue ReadingTV 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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