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DC/DC Converter Topologies and Techniques to Obtain High Boost Ratios

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Whether it is used for biasing avalanche photodiodes (APDs) found in optical receivers, driving photoflash tubes in flash cameras, or charging high-voltage capacitors, the need for high-voltage sources continues to grow. Consequently, in battery-powered units where the input supply voltage is low, step-up or boost DC/DC converters are required to generate voltages that can be […]

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FREE ELEKTOR ARTICLE: TMC2160 MOTOR DRIVER BOARD

Electronics News Updates / By Muhammad Bilal

Stepper motors are popular in computer and microcontroller-based position control applications like robotics, industrial automation, CNC machines, 3D printers and video camera control. Due to their uncomplicated internal construction and their limited number of connection wires, stepper motors look deceptively simple. On the internet, there are even lots of tutorials on how to control these

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Hands on with the Light Blue Bean

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

We took a look at Punch Through Design’s Light Blue Bean back when the board was called the “Cortado” and Punch Through had just opened its doors for pre-orders. However with the board now shipping to pre-order customers, and going on general sale at the end of the month, it’s time to take proper look at

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ONEMIX 3PRO MINI LAPTOP IS POWERED BY INTEL CORE I5-10210Y COMET LAKE-Y PROCESSOR

Electronics News Updates / By Muhammad Bilal

After the release of several models of the One Mix mini laptops from One Netbook, like the One Mix 2S Yoga and the One Mix 3 Yoga, the company has recent just unveiled its intentions to launch another new model of the One Mix mini laptop called; One Mix 3 Pro, which is expected to come with an upgraded processing capacity for

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Barobot: A Cocktail Mixing Robot

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

A beautifully designed robotic bartender capable of producing perfect drinks every time, with technology that brings people together. Introducing Barobot Barobot is an open source device that pours cocktails by mixing alcohol, soft drinks and sodas. It holds up to 12 bottles and can pour a drink with millitary accuracy! Barobot features over 1000 cocktail

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USB ARMORY MK II USB LINUX COMPUTER TARGETS SECURITY APPLICATIONS

Electronics News Updates / By Muhammad Bilal

F-Secure Foundry recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for their new, tiny form factor USB Armory MK II computer. The device which comes with a form factor that looks like a usb flash drive is an open-source, full featured USB computer with Bluetooth, USB-C ports, 512MB RAM and 900MHz and was developed as an improvement to the USB Armory

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SIMPLE ARDUINO BUILD LETS YOU KEEP AN EYE ON PI

Arduino News / By Muhammad Bilal

Are you a math aficionado in need of a new desk toy? Then do we have the project for you. With nothing more than an Arduino and a seven-segment LED module, [Cristiano Monteiro] has put together a little gadget that will slowly work its way through the digits of Pi forever…or until you get bored of looking

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Making a Handheld game

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

I bought this tiny display from Adafruit: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1393 First thing I did was breadboard a circuit to make sure it worked and I could use it. Board design I was thinking along the lines of “Game Boy Micro:” http://i.imgur.com/1s5qvFH.jpg . I spent an evening coming up with this design in Eagle. In order for me

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COMMELL UNVEILED PICO-ITX LP-178 BASED ON WHISKEY LAKE-U PROCESSORS

Electronics News Updates / By Muhammad Bilal

Taiwan Commate Computer Inc.(COMMELL), the worldwide leader of Industrial Single Board Computers, unveiled LP-178 Pico-ITX based on Intel® 8th Gen. FCBGA1528 “Whiskey Lake”. The “Whiskey” PC is claimed to deliver better performance than a PC base on previous embedded U-series processors- enabled by 4 instead of 2 cores plus an overall improved micro architecture. The 8th Gen. Core™ i7 U-series Mobile processor for IoT applications

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Standalone Arduino / ATMega chip on breadboard

News & Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

If you’re like me, after I got my Arduino and performed a final programming on my first chip, I wanted to pull it off my Arduino Duemilanove and put it on my own circuit. This would also free up my Arduino for future projects. The problem was that I’m such an electronics newbie that I didn’t know

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