Omniblox – Eagle BRD 3D viewer
Omniblox is a very good 3D Eagle .brd 3D viewer created by Benjamin D. Richards and David ten Have, but some script knowledge is needed to use it. Looking to render printed circuit boards (PCBs)? Look no further. This script loads and renders them visually using a .brd file created...
Continue Reading9 VDC Regulated Power Supply
Tiny low current 9 VDC Regulated Power supply designed around bipolar transistor and zener diode. The circuit is known as series voltage regulator or emitter follower voltage regulator. The unregulated supply fed to input and the circuit regulate the voltage and provide constant 9V...
Continue ReadingEasy Pulse mikro – MikroBus form factor pulse sensor
Raj @ embedded-lab.com has designed a new version of his Easy Pulse Sensor. This revision is an add-on board in mikroBus form factor, which enables easy integration with mikroElektronika‘s numerous development boards. It also operates on the principle of transmittance...
Continue ReadingBerkeley Lab makes graphene-MoS2 transistor
U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a way to assemble transistors based on the 2D materials graphene and molybdenum disulfide. By Peter Clarke @ edn-europe.com The method etches narrow channels in conducting graphene...
Continue ReadingLCD 16×2 Interface with Raspberry Pi
shubhamtrivedi95 @ instructables.com shows how to interface a 16x2 LCD display on Raspberry Pi. Sample code is provided. LCD 16x2 Interface with Raspberry Pi -...
Continue ReadingArduino + Thermocouple + Nokia 5110 LCD
abhyu1112 @ instructables.com provides code for thermocouple interface to Arduino and Nokia 5110 LCD display. This is a connection between arduino mega thermocouple and Nokia 5110 screen to display temperature which ranges till 1000*C. It can be used to measure temperature of...
Continue ReadingTritiLED – Multi-year always-on LED
Ted Yapo has designed a multi-year always-on LED replacements for gaseous tritium light sources. TritiLEDs are always-on battery powered LED glow lights for general night-time marking use. Radioactive gaseous tritium light sources (GTLSs) are allowed in the United States in several...
Continue ReadingFactory programming ESP8266 gadgets
Johan Kanflo’s Esprog pogo pin connector: The FTDI connector can be found on just about any ESP8266 design. If you are building a gadget to be deployed somewhere and not a full blown development board, the FTDI connector is somewhat overkill. And it is quite large. A few pins...
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