Tag: Power

Joulescope™ enables designers, engineers, and makers to quickly and easily optimize the energy consumption and battery life of a target device. Joulescope is designed to automatically handle wide current ranges and rapid changes in energy consumption, while allowing the target...

Jason has designed a development board for USB-C and Power Delivery, that is available on GitHub. The board is also on sale at Tindie for $79 + shipping. The USB-C Explorer is a development board with everything needed to start working with USB Type-C. It contains a USB-C port...

Scientists of Japanese research institute RIKEN and the University of Tokyo have successfully developed a product that allows solar cells to continue to provide solar power after being washed, stretched and compressed. Takao Someya of Riken Center for Emergent Matter Science, a...

Sanket @ octopart.com tipped us with his latest blog post about voltage regulators and how to select them. All electronics projects need power. Power can come from either stored energy in a battery, or directly from mains AC voltage or DC power from renewable sources such as solar...

Control 16 Relays with your Pi, supplying 12V to 16 DC jacks. All powered from and ATX Power Supply, with sensor support on board. You can find more details on the author's website. by Rodney Balent @ kickstarter.com: I started out with the simple goal of wanting to automate a few...

Clayton G. Hobbs @ hackaday.io published some details of his project, a USB power delivery board. He writes: USB Power Delivery is a cool standard for getting lots of power—up to 100 W—from a USB Type-C port. Being an open standard for supplying enough power to charge phones,...

Controlling your AC loads using wireless power switch is not a new concept. Several commercial products from several vendors can be found on the market such as Xiaomi’s Mi Smart Socket Plug, SAMSUNG’s SmartThings Power Outlet and Sonoff Pow WiFi Switch from ITEAD. Using ESP8266...

pinko @ blog.exrockets.com wanted to regulate the power to a resistive load so he decided to build a PWM power regulator based on PIC18LF2550. In order to synthesize chlorates and perchlorates in the home lab it is always good to have a way to regulate the current flowing through the...