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MicroZed is a Powerful and Low-Cost ARM + FPGA Linux Development Board
MicroZed is a low-cost development board from Avnet, the makers of the $475 ZedBoard and the entry level MiniZed development boards. Its unique design allows it to be used as both a stand-alone evaluation board for basic SoC experimentation or combined with a carrier card as an embeddable...
Continue ReadingOsram Develops LED Beam Array Smart Headlamps That Can Analyze Road And Traffic
After over three years of research and field demos, a prototype of Osram’s EVIYOS smart, controllable, high resolution LED automotive headlamp was introduced at the International Symposium on Automotive Lighting earlier this year in Darmstadt, Germany. This smart LED headlamp is able...
Continue ReadingXMotion All In One Controller for Robotics
If there is a motion, it must have XMotion. Recreating Arduino & interface circuits user focused. XMotion is Arduino Compatible all in one robot controller. Which designed specially for robotics, IOT and maker projects. It includes powerful Motor drivers, switching mode regulator,...
Continue ReadingTransistors- The 70-year-old invention that changed the world
Its been 70 years since the fundamental building block of electronics was created, and it has been getting smaller, and better since then. The invention that won the Nobel prize for John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley in 1956 revolutionized electronics and made it into...
Continue ReadingArduino Nokia 5110 Tutorial #2- Displaying Customized Graphics
Introduction In one of our previous tutorials we did an introduction on how to use the Nokia 5110 LCD with the Arduino, the tutorial covered displaying texts with different fonts etc. For this tutorial, we are taking things a little bit further and will be working through the display...
Continue ReadingChirp Microsystem Made The Smallest And Most Accurate Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight Sensors
Recently Californian startup Chirp Microsystems officially announced two discrete ultrasonic Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors, the CH-101 and CH-201, with maximum sensing ranges of 1m and 5m, respectively. Both chips have a 3.5x3.5mm package and they are powered by same ASIC or...
Continue ReadingESP8266 MAX7219 Dot Matrix Display
A MAX7219 driven Display, controlled by an ESP8266 SoC and MQTT This project describes how to connect a MAX7219 to an ESP8266 Chip and let it act as a MQTT client. Its basically my ninHOME Node Firmware where you can optionally add a MAX7219 Display. ESP8266 MAX7219 Dot Matrix Display...
Continue ReadingImitation Fireplace Using Cool Mist and LEDs
A convincing artificial fire effect for the holiday season, using NeoPixel LEDs, an Arduino UNO, and a cool mist module. The instructions for this are actually pretty simple, basically you just need to get the materials, and put them all together. The only technical part is soldering...
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