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AVNET INTEGRATED ANNOUNCES NEW SIMPLEFLEX PLATFORM

Electronics News Updates / By Muhammad Bilal

Avnet Integrated announces its second SimpleFlex platform which is well-suited for HMI and IoT applications, and can be quickly adapted to a wide range of other applications with only minor configuration modifications. The ready-to-use SimpleFlex platform MSC SM2S-MB-EP5 is designed for use with Avnet Integrated’s broad portfolio of x86- and ARM-based SMARC 2.0™ modules which encompasses the entire […]

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A HOMBREW RETRO LAPTOP

Arduino News / By Muhammad Bilal

We feel bad when we see a retrocomputer project and think, “Hey! That’s not that old.” But, usually, when we think about it, it really is. Take the Penkesu. It looks like one of the little organizer computers that were popular — ok — a long time ago. Inside is a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, a

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Print-A-Sketch DIY handheld conductive ink printer

Arduino News / By Muhammad Bilal

A team of students from the German Saarland University in Saarbrücken, has created a unique handheld printer using an Arduino Mega 2560 called the Print-A-Sketch. The small handheld printer is capable of printing conductive ink images and will automatically correct any user errors during the print process, as well as providing a wide-ranging drawing tools to create any designs you

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Reflow Oven Controller with graphics TFT

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Reflow Oven Controller Arduino-based reflow oven controller with: PID loop control Wave Packet and Phase Fired control for AC outputs graphic TFT LC-Display, drawing the temperature curves using an Adafruit 1.8″ TFT or derivate display solely controlled using a cheap rotary encoder and it’s single button stores up to 30 temperature profiles in EEPROM configurable

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BEAGLEBOARD.ORG® LAUNCHES BEAGLEBONE® AI

PCBA SERVICE REVIEW – COMPARING PCBWAY VS LOCOPCB VS PCBGOGO VS SEEEDSTUDIO

Electronics News Updates / By Muhammad Bilal

Daniel Eichhorn @ blog.squix.org, shares his experience with some popular PCBA services and documents his finding on his blog. He writes: Until recently I believed that having PCBs assembled by a professional service is either too costly for small batches or not possible at all. That was until I realized that some PCB manufacturers offer

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Dart: The World’s Smallest Laptop Adapter

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

One, tiny Dart. Power for all your devices. Perfect for your mobile lifestyle. #TheDart #PerfectlyMobile What is Dart? The Dart is the world’s smallest, lightest laptop adapter. At a powerful 65W it is a perfect complement to today’s thin, lightweight, portable laptops. It fits in a pocket and is designed with a USB port and

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BEAGLEBOARD.ORG® LAUNCHES BEAGLEBONE® AI

Electronics News Updates / By Muhammad Bilal

BeagleBoard.org® Launches BeagleBone® AI, Offering a Fast Track to Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence at the Edge. The BeagleBoard.org® Foundation today announces general availability of the newest, fastest, most powerful BeagleBoard.org® BeagleBone® low cost development board yet, and it’s driving a whole new AI revolution. Built on our proven open source Linux approach, BeagleBone® AI fills the

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AS FAST AS A SPEEDING BULLET

Arduino News / By Muhammad Bilal

[Electronoobs] built a coil gun and the obvious question is: how fast is the projectile? To answer it, he built a chronograph suitable for timing a bullet. The principle is straightforward. A laser and a light sensor would mark the entry and exit of the projectile over a known distance. As it turns out, there are some

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PC HARDWARE MONITOR WITH NOKIA 5110 DISPLAY AND ARDUINO

Electronics News Updates / By Muhammad Bilal

Either for benchmarking purposes or as external telemetry to help you stay within the acceptable range for your computer power, super users usually have the desire to have a way of knowing what the performance numbers of your PC are. For today’s tutorial, we will build a PC Hardware monitor which is capable of obtaining

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Zener level-shifter drives high-side switch

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Microcontrollers, the heart of all modern electronic gadgets, are increasingly powered with sub-5V power supplies. This complicates the control of external loads powered by higher voltages. The trend towards low voltage supplies is dictated by the fact that modern digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits are CMOS based, and with an ever increasing demand for higher

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