Category: Test/Measurements

by S Kaliyugavaradan, Anna University, Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, India; Edited by Brad Thompson and Fran Granville -November 10, 2005 Designers often use thermistors rather than other temperature sensors because thermistors offer high sensitivity, compactness, low...

Lukas Fässler discuss about his anemometer project progress and what tests he has performed so far. In the mean time I managed to do some rudimentary testing and now feel confident to take orders. These tests concern the hardware only. What I said last time about the state of the...

When I started to deal with Chinese electronics suppliers from websites like Alibaba, Aliexpress and Taobao, I discovered that there are huge amount of undiscovered tools from the Chinese market. They are not easily discovered, maybe due to the Chinese language barrier, especially...

EspoTek Labrador is a small, portable, USB-connected electronics lab-on-a-board that includes an oscilloscope, waveform generator, power supply, logic analyzer, and multimeter. The EspoTek Labrador plugs directly into a solderless breadboard and connects to any Windows, Mac, or Linux...

Henrik Forstén has done amazing job designing a homemade vector analyzer with the goal to fit it's budget of 200EUR. The design is open source and available on github. Vector network analyzer (VNA) are used to measure scattering parameters of high frequency circuits. When frequency...

Harry Baggen @ elektormagazine.com reviews the Siglent SDS1102X oscilloscope. Before we take a look at the instrument itself, I would like to say something about the characteristics of an oscilloscope for 'small users'. What do you really need for your daily tasks? Even the cheapest...

This digital temperature meter provides real-time temperature values from 00 to 99 degrees Celsius. The Temperature Monitor project built using PIC16F1825 Microcontroller from Microchip, CAT4016 serial to display driver IC from ON-Semiconductor, DS18200 Temperature sensor and two 7...

Сollect environmental data with Tibbo Project System devices, process it with Azure Stream Analytics and visualize using Power BI. Environmental Monitoring with TPS, Azure, and PowerBI -...