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mikroe.com – These are the new machines that tripled our production capabilities

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Let’s take a look at our new machines (we mentioned them when announcing the WunderBar recently). YouTube is full of Christmas gift freak-out videos, with kids loosing themselves in episodes of hysterical happiness because they discovered an Xbox or something like that under the tree. Screaming and jumping around the room, completely loosing it. Although

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Modification of the Lexmark E260 for Direct Laser Printing of Printed Circuit Boards

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

This is the second version of my E260 modification. It uses an ATtiny13 MCU to control the timing of the printer and make it possible to print double sided PCBs at home. As an electronic hobbyist and inventor I often need to make printed circuit boards (PCBs) in single or small quantities. Usually these are

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AppNote: How to Use the MAX17501 and MAX17502 for Negative Output Voltage Applications

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Abstract: This article shows how to produce negative output voltages from positive input voltages using the MAX17501 and MAX17502 synchronous step-down converters. Introduction Industrial control equipment such as programmable logic controllers, I/O modules, mass flow controllers, and various other sensors and supporting systems use analog components like amplifiers and multiplexers that operate on negative supply voltage.

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Analogue Sensors – Calculate the Nonlinearity Introduced by a Load or Pull Down Resistor

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Have you ever had that terrible feeling that adding a load resistor or ‘pull down’ to your sensor is messing up all your analogue readings? Maybe you’re wondering why we’d want to spoil a perfectly good circuit by putting in a load resistor at all? For many years I found that I would get strange,

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Proteus Tutorial – Light Emitting Diode (LED) and Bar Graph Display

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How to work with Light Emitting Diode (LED) in Proteus In this post, we will be learning how to use the “Light Emitting Diode (LED)” component in Proteus simulation software. In case you have not got on through the basics of Proteus, here is the link – Proteus PCB Design and Simulation Software – Introduction. Note:- You

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Signal Conditioners Offer Drop-in Sensor Solutions for Energy-Harvesting Designs

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Sensor data acquisition underlies many deeply embedded applications and plays a central role in the evolving Internet of Things (IoT). With the trend toward reliance on energy harvesting for power, sensor-based designs require increasingly effective solutions for processing sensor signals efficiently and accurately. Among available alternatives, specialized sensor-signal conditioning ICs such as those from Analog

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SimScale is Teaching Electronics Engineers How to Test Designs with Cloud-based CFD

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

SimScale is announcing a free webinar on 24th of January to teach electronics engineers how conjugate heat transfer simulation in the cloud can help better investigate the thermal response of electronic packaging. According to the Electrical and Electronic Manufacturing Market Briefing 2017 report from The Business Research Company (TBRC), the global electrical and electronics manufacturing

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Spell out affection for your Valentine with chocolates, LEDs, Attiny13 and Arduino IDE

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Well, sure, you could have put a post-it note with the same message inside that chocolate box 🙂 but it won’t be nearly as cool, especially if your Valentine has a sweet spot for nerds. Come to think of it: of course she does, otherwise what is she doing still hanging out with you? If

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Teardown, Analysis and Repair of an Agilent E4407B ESA-E Spectrum Analyzer

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

In this episode Shahriar takes a detailed look at an Agilent (Keysight) E4407B ESA-E Spectrum Analyzer. The instruments reports an “Unlock LO” error message which prevents internal alignments from being performed. Before the repair process can begin, the firmware of the instrument must be updated. The firmware upgrade requires the installation of additional flash memory

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Two-dimensional piezoelectric material forms basis of world’s thinnest electric generator

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Researchers from Columbia University and the Georgia Institute of Technology are laying claim to having observed piezoelectricity in an atomically thin material for the first time. The effect was demonstrated in the world’s thinnest electric generator made from a two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) material, which had previously been predicted to exhibit such properties. Co-leader of

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