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High Performance SBC TS-7800-V2 Runs Debian With Linux 4.4.8

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Back in 2007, Technologic Systems announced the TS-7800, a single-board computer (SBC) that was able to boot Linux 2.6 in under two seconds. At its core, The TS-7800 is equipped with a Marvel 500MHz ARM9 CPU and includes a user-programmable on-board FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) with 12,000 LUTs (look-up tables). The TS-7800 was a powerful board at […]

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Adafruit Triple-axis Magnetometer sensor board now available

Arduino News / By Muhammad Bilal

Adafruit have announced the availability of its new Triple-axis Magnetometer offering a sensor capable of sensing ranges from +-50 gauss (+- 5000 uTesla!) with no range-setting required. For high resolution, you can read at 100 Hz update rate, and if you were not too concerned about a slight loss of precision the sensor can output

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STOP ‘N GO DUPLO

Arduino News / By Muhammad Bilal

[beshur]’s 2-year-old is obsessed with transportation, so he lifted a few DUPLO blocks from the bin and made this toy traffic light as a birthday present. Hey, might as well get him used to the realities of traffic, right? It also makes for a good early hacker lesson: why buy something when you can make it yourself?

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ARDUINO DRIVES ASTRONOMY DOME

Arduino News / By Muhammad Bilal

The South Florida Science Center recently added a new ten-inch telescope and turned to [Andres Paris] and his brother to replace the hand-cranked dome door system. They turned to an Arduino along with some beefy motor drivers. You can see some videos of the beast in operation, below. According to a Reddit post, the brothers picked

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DC-DC converter starts up and operates from a single photocell

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

The bq25504 from Texas Instruments is a good candidate to become a milestone on the road to micro-power management and energy harvesting. A prominent feature of this IC is its ability to start up at a supply voltage as low as 330 mV typically, and 450 mV guaranteed. With an SMD inductor and a few

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CASUAL TETRIS COMES IN AT $9

Arduino News / By Muhammad Bilal

[Michael Pick] calls himself the casual engineer, though we don’t know whether he is referring to his work clothes or his laid back attitude. However, he does like to show quick and easy projects. His latest? A little portable Tetris game for $9 worth of parts. There is an Arduino Pro Mini and a tiny display along

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ASSISTIVE SPECS HELP JOG YOUR MEMORY

Arduino News / By Muhammad Bilal

It’s something that can happen to all of us, that we forget things. Young and old, we know things are on our to-do list but in the heat of the moment they disappear from our minds and we miss them. There are a myriad of technological answers to this in the form of reminders and

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WRITING ARDUINO LIBRARIES, AN EXPERT VIEW

Arduino News / By Muhammad Bilal

The Arduino IDE has a bit of a split personality. On the one hand, it is a simple environment where you can just pick and choose a few libraries, write a few lines of code, and make lots of interesting things. On the other hand, it is also an ecosystem in which many different boards

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OpenEmbed Releases em3399 Rockchip RK3399 SoM plus an Evaluation Kit

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

The RK3399 processor from Rockchip has seen adoption in some boards in recent times. The Rockchip RK3399 processor has been deployed on boards like the Odroid-N1 board, Firefly’s Firefly-RK3399, the Theobroma RK3399-Q7 SoM, and more recently the Shenzhen Xunlong’s Orange Pi RK3399. The RK3399 is a low power, a high-performance processor for computing, personal mobile internet devices, and

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Air Quality Analyzer

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Story The quality of the air that we breathe, is very important to our health. This device analyses the air quality inside our homes, and records the values in a SD card. By analyzing the stored values, we know how the evolution of the parameters thru time was. I will use temperature, humidity and air

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