This week the beautiful projects from Boldport club arrived. Each of them comes with a nice box or bag which matches the individual project. All electronic components to assemble and solder the project are included, but you need some external power supply and jumper cables to bring some of the projects to life. In the […]
Features 3V to 40V Input Voltage Range Ultralow Quiescent Current and Low Ripple Burst Mode® Operation: IQ = 6μA 1A, 60V Power Switch Positive or Negative Output Voltage Programming with a Single Feedback Pin Fixed 2MHz Switching Frequency Accurate 1.6V EN/UVLO Pin Threshold Internal Compensation and Soft-Start Low Profile (1mm) ThinSOT™ Package Low Profile (0.75mm) 8-Lead (3mm
LT8330 – Low IQ Boost/SEPIC/Inverting Converter with 1A, 60V Switch Continue Reading
In most cases, you measure current by converting it into a proportional voltage and then measuring the voltage. Figure 1 shows two typical methods of making the conversion. In one method, you insert a probing resistor, RP, in series with the current path and use differential amplifier IC1 to measure the resulting voltage drop (Figure
Measure small currents without adding resistive insertion loss Continue Reading
So for some reason I bought 2 IKEA lamps at a flea market. As IKEA furniture has a long history of being hacker-friendly, I figured they shouldn’t be an exception to the rule. My plan? Fit a few 10W RGB LEDs in there together with an ESP8266 to use the final result as an alarm
Update: Looks like somebody had this idea before me and made a product out of it. Just Google Fake TV. In fact, you can also buy a clone of this from AliExpress – again, just search for ‘fake tv’ in AliExpress. The Chinese versions can be had for about $12 in your hand and that
Build A Fake TV Security Light Using Arduino Continue Reading
Sitting for long periods has become more common in today’s jobs causing serious health issues. Unfortunately the plethora of activity trackers fail to address the issue: being rather active while sitting does not provide a good picture of the amount of time spent sitting. Sit. Up is a simple device that attaches to the chair
This Design Idea gives two versions of an indicator light that changes from green to red as a battery discharges. There are many circuits that do this sort of thing, but all the ones I have seen are too complex and costly for my taste. This DI shows a method that uses an absolute minimum
Voltage indicator transitions between colours Continue Reading
Features 680nA Input Quiescent Current (Output in Regulation at No Load) 1.8V to 5.5V Input Operating Range Selectable Output Voltages of 1.8V, 2.5V, 2.8V, 3V, 3.3V, 3.6V, 4.5V, 5V Integrated Coulomb Counter Measures Accumulated Battery Discharge ±5% Battery Discharge Measurement Accuracy Programmable Peak Input Current of 5mA, 10mA, 15mA, 25mA, 50mA, 100mA, 150mA, 250mA Up to 50mA of Output
LTC3335 – Nanopower Buck-Boost DC/DC with Integrated Coulomb Counter Continue Reading
USB Power supply Active Load Tester or short PAL Tester is unit designed for testing the quality of the power supplies. Idea was to create low-cost, precise device for simultaneous measurement of Voltage and Current drawn from the device under test. This is one of my weekend projects that I have decided to release to
Searching for a compromise between the quality (materials, design,…) and production costs is a theme at development of every device and naturally – also at development of components. Also from this reason on the market can be found enclosures with a various wall thickness, with various temperature resistance, etc. and so everyone can choose according
Phoenix EH basic is more than just a „basic“ enclosure Continue Reading
