Network Clock using ESP8266 and OLED display

Network Clock using ESP8266 and OLED display

There are several situations where using an RTC could adversely affect your project by increasing cost, size, time accuracy or IO requirements. To prevent this, especially in ESP/WiFi-based or other clock-reliant projects, makers usually turn to obtain time information from NTP servers. I...

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Sinusoidal Waveforms

Sinusoidal Waveforms

Introduction Within a period of 10 years at the end of the 19th century, many technological achievements allowed to extend the use of alternating current and overcome the limitations of direct current for the distribution of electricity to the public. In 1882, the transformer is...

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Axiomtek Launches A 15-inch Ultra Slim Fanless Touch Panel Computer – GOT115-319
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Axiomtek Launches A 15-inch Ultra Slim Fanless Touch Panel Computer – GOT115-319

Axiomtek - a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted in the research, development and manufacture of series of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is pleased to introduce the GOT115-319, a 15-inch fanless touch panel computer with a thickness...

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Meet the STM32 “Black Pill” Development Board
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Meet the STM32 “Black Pill” Development Board

After playing second (maybe third?) fiddle for a while to a range of maker-friendly boards from Arduino and others, STMicro finally got it right with the STM32F103C8T6 Arm Cortex-M3 microcontroller-based "BluePill" development board which can be programmed using the Arduino IDE. As all...

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AC Capacitance and Capacitive Reactance

AC Capacitance and Capacitive Reactance

Introduction Such as for inductors, the electrical behavior of capacitors also depends on the nature of the source : DC or AC. We will see through this tutorial that in some way, the capacitor can be seen as the opposite of an inductor in terms of frequency functioning. Like for the...

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Axiomtek’s i.MX 8M-based Fanless Embedded System with E-Mark Certification – Agent336
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Axiomtek’s i.MX 8M-based Fanless Embedded System with E-Mark Certification – Agent336

Axiomtek – a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted in the research, development and manufacture of series of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is proud to launch the Agent336, its new RISC-based fanless embedded box PC certified with...

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AC Inductance and Inductive Reactance

AC Inductance and Inductive Reactance

Introduction In the previous tutorial concerning AC resistance, we have seen that the behavior of a resistor is the same in DC or AC regime under normal frequencies. However, other basic electrical components such the inductor, strongly depends on the frequency of the AC signal. A...

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YX8018 Joule Thief Solar LED Driver
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YX8018 Joule Thief Solar LED Driver

YX8018 is a 4-pin integrated circuit for driving solar powered garden LED lights and is found on many cheap garden lights. You can buy 10x YX8018 ICs on AliExpress for around $1. You will need the following parts to build one on your own: Parts i-Cd AA 300mAh 1.2v rechargable...

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