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The Personal Computer: Fast Becoming the Home Entertainment System of Choice

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Its lifetime may not be quite over yet, but the humble television is facing some stiff competition from the computer, as the entertainment portal of choice. Widespread access to superfast broadband means that users are now able to stream films and television shows, download music and of course browse the net 24/7, from wherever they […]

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Water Softener LED Display

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Many homes in the United States have water that contains higher concentrations of dissolved minerals, which is called hard water. Although there is nothing toxic about hard water, it is less desirable for cleaning, it leaves mineral deposits, and it can shorten the lifetime or efficiency of equipment such as water heaters. A water softener

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A Cost Effective Portable Solution – The Qualmark HawQ

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Qualmark, world leader in Accelerated Stress Testing has introduced the HawQ, a new, cost-effective, portable solution to your Highly Accelerated Stress Testing needs. For more detail: Qualmark HawQ

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SOS webinar – Looking for a powerful platfom for your Linux applications

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

SOS Webinar @ 2014.10.29 10:00 – 11:30 CET UDOO is a powerful single board embedded SBC based on the powerful Freescale i.MX6 chip, which offers complete and powerful platform for your applications. General introduction to the UDOO Board Hardware features Main aspects regarding the creation of projects with it main aspects of creating a Linux

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Monitor 15 contacts with one PIC input

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Several previously published Design Ideas and appnotes [1-4] show how to use many pushbuttons with a minimum number of inputs. They require an RC circuit where the timing can be measured to identify which pushbutton has been pressed, or an ADC input, with resistors forming a divider for each pushbutton pressed. The following Design Idea

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Planterbot – The Plant Monitoring Robot

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Hello everyone ! Please vote for me in the tech contest! In this instructable I am collaborating with Akin Yildiz an instructables author that creates instructables that help plants grow you should really go check out his account: http://www.instructables.com/member/Akin+Yildiz/ The planterbot is a plant monitoring robot. It uses capacitance for sensing moisture from the plant

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Simpler superconducting promised by nanowire device

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

MIT researchers have developed a circuit design that could make simple superconducting devices with zero electrical resistance much cheaper to manufacture, and which would be 50 to 100 times as energy efficient as today’s chips. Even though the circuits’ speed probably would not top that of today’s chips, they could solve the problem of reading

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ChronodeVFD: A Cyberpunk Wristwatch

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

The ChronodeVFD is a personal project I’ve been working on for a couple of months. It’s a wristwatch built around the IVL2-7/5 VFD display tube. I originally purchased a few of these tubes to build a standard desk clock, but after playing around with them, I realized I could probably build a wristwatch too. The

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Tech Lab – Rigol MSO2000A Series Oscilloscopes

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Today, we’ll be discussing Rigol’s MSO2302A Mixed Signal Oscilloscope from the MSO2000A series. Starting at $1,239, this oscilloscope features 300 MHz bandwidth, with 2 giga-samples per second, a memory depth of 14 megapoints (Mpts), with an option up to 56 megapoints. The large 8 inch high resolution screen typical to Rigol scopes allows for easy

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Lithium coin-cell batteries Predicting an application lifetime

Electronics News Updates / By Ibrar Ayyub

Abstract: The typical specification for lithium coin-cell batteries has been to provide a 10-year battery lifetime in the absence of system power. End users should evaluate the anticipated lifetime in their specific application, especially for those that exceed typical commercial environments or that need to last more than 10 years. This article gives the reader

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