Raise you’re hand if you’ve ever soldered directly to a battery even though you know better. We’ve all been there. Sometimes we get away with it when we have a small pack and don’t care about longevity. But when [Robert Dunn] needed to build a battery pack out of about 120 Lithium Ion cells, he […]
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Every serious maker out there will surely tell you the importance of having a good oscilloscope. An oscilloscope is something you should have if you really consider yourself a maker, and fortunately enough, the cost of quality oscilloscope has been on the decline for some time now, so you don’t necessarily have to get the
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With the world opening up again, [Niklas Roy] and [Kati Hyyppä] have been busy making a public and collaborative project. Meet the Vektor Kollektor, a portable drawing machine experience, complete with a chip-tune soundtrack. It’s great to see public art meet the maker community with zero pretension and a whole lot of fun! The build started
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Latching Toggle switches are one of the most popular kinds of switches, from their use by kids in basic electricity classes to their use in prototypes and more advanced products, they provide a familiar and reliable way to close or open a circuit. This makes them the go to switch for designers in most applications
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A few days ago NXP has released a new version of their Eclipse IDE flagship: the MCUXpresso IDE v11.0. The previous v10.3.1 was released back in Feb 2019, and the 11.0 now in June this year matches up with the Fall university semester. I appreciate that the releases are about every 6 months, so this gives
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IBASE Technology Inc., a world leading supplier of embedded board and industrial computing systems, has released the IB822 3.5-inch SBC (single board computer) supporting Intel’s “Gemini Lake” Pentium® Silver J5005 and Celeron® J4005 processors built with 14nm fabrication, a base clock/burst rate of 1.5GHz/2.8GHz and 2.0GHz/2.7GHz, and integrated Intel® UHD Graphics 605 (18EUs@800MHz) and UHD
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mosaic is Septentrio’s most compact high-precision GPS/GNSS receiver module. This next-generation receiver is now available for trial with its newly released development kit. Septentrio announces today that the mosaic development kit is available for testing and integration. mosaic is Septentrio’s most compact next-generation, high-precision multi-frequency GPS/GNSS module. This receiver brings precision and reliability of high-end multi-frequency GNSS
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City dwellers often spend a large amount of their time indoors, either in an office, at school, or simply at home. Urbanized spaces, however, tend to trap and develop bad air quality as they get more insulated for energy efficiency purposes. The concentration of CO 2 is an indicator for bad air quality. Today´s market solutions for
PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY (PAS) MINIATURIZES CO2 SENSOR XENSIV™ PAS210 Continue Reading
X-FAB Silicon Foundries, the leading analog/mixed-signal and specialty foundry, continues to develop ground-breaking semiconductor solutions to address the most difficult of design challenges. It has now announced the availability of avalanche photodiode (APD) and single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) products for implementation in scenarios where there are extremely low light conditions to contend with and augmented
Teledyne e2v, a Teledyne Technologies company and global innovator of imaging solutions, and TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, announces that Teledyne e2v’s Emerald™ 67M image sensor, designed for ultra-high resolution electronics inspection, high-end surveillance and microscopy is now available. The sensor is a member of Teledyne e2v’s Emerald family and features TowerJazz’s smallest in the world
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