Category: Hardware
RAK8211-NB iTracker – An All Weather IoT Board designed for Asset Tracking with Bluetooth 5.0
In the last few years, we have seen a lot of love poured towards the hardware ecosystem especially hardware related to the Internet of Things applications (hardly would you find any board that doesn't have one or two IoT offerings). Some boards give basic IoT functionality like...
Continue ReadingBlkBox BB-E01P – The World’s Smallest ESP8285-Based WiFi Module
Back in March 2016, Espressif Announced the ESP8285 Wi-Fi Chip, a supposed killer of the favorite ESP8266 chip. The new chip is an ESP8266, but with the flash memory onboard - 1MB flash memory. Espressif’s ESP8285 delivers highly integrated Wi-Fi SoC solution to meet users’...
Continue ReadingTop Funding Platforms For Hardware Based Projects
In the last few years, we have seen that the Makers' Movement is growing quite strong, more makers, innovators, and hardware startups are beginning to come up. We saw back in 2015, the most famous hardware prototyping board "The Arduino" is now assembled in the USA as compared to it...
Continue ReadingµGame 10 – A Tiny Game Console Unit to Learn Python Programming
If you want to have fun by playing games and also learn about Python Programming language, the µGame console kit might be your best bet. There are some game consoles out there in the market, like Pokitto, Okitto, and others. These game consoles give the ability to play several games and...
Continue ReadingDa Vinci Color, The First Full Color 3D Printer
3D Printing became an important process in prototyping, and sometimes in manufacturing. But till now, the filament types available in the market are limiting printing colors. Although there are many multi color printers, printing a design in full color is still a...
Continue ReadingIkaScope: a wireless oscilloscope probe
Author: Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio IkaScope is a wireless oscilloscope probe that allows to observe the change of electrical signals over time. The probe is a handheld device, portable and fits perfectly in the hand and pocket. By using high-speed Wi-Fi connection, IkaScope wireless...
Continue ReadingVersatile And Open Source LiPo bBattery Breadboard Power Supply
Orlando Hoilett from Calvary Engineering LLC designed a versatile Li-Po battery breadboard power supply and wrote an Instructables on it. This power supply outputs 3.3V to the breadboard and takes input from a single-cell LiPo battery. The breadboard power supply also has the...
Continue ReadingDiamond-Based MOSFETs Are Now Real
A research group at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed logic circuits equipped with diamond-based metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs) at two different operation modes - a first step toward the development of diamond integrated...
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