About two years ago, I built a big 120 face LED geodesic dome that plays music with a MIDI output. However, it was a difficult build and the sensors weren’t completely reliable. I decided to build the Bucky Touch, a smaller version of my geodesic dome that is easier to construct and has upgraded capacitive touch sensors. […]
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Axiomtek – a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted in the research, development and manufacture of series of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is announcing the CEM521, a COM Express Type 6 compact form factor module powered by the latest 8th generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 processor or Intel® Celeron® processor 4305UE (codename: Whiskey Lake-U).
AXIOMTEK’S COM EXPRESS TYPE 6 MODULE WITH ENHANCED GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE – CEM521 Read More »
Axiomtek – a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted in the research, development and manufacture of series of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is pleased to introduce the MIRU130, a high-end embedded vision and AI motherboard optimized for machine vision and deep learning applications. It is powered by the onboard AMD RYZEN™ Embedded
AXIOMTEK’S EMBEDDED VISION/AI MOTHERBOARD WITH REAL-TIME VISION I/O AND POE – MIRU130 Read More »
Toradex is now bringing Torizon, its easy-to-use industrial Linux software platform, to its System on Modules (SoMs) based on the i.MX 8X applications processors from NXP®. Toradex offers the i.MX 8X-based SoMs in two form factors: the small Colibri iMX8X and the powerful Apalis iMX8X, with optional ECC memory. Toradex was among the first few partners to be part
DISPLAY VISIONS‘ EA-DOGS102 series graphic LCDs are available in an FSTN positive transflective, STN negative transmissive, and FSTN positive reflective version. These displays have a 2.54 mm pitch and can be soldered directly or plugged into socket strips. Therefore, cumbersome gluing procedures, the need for designing a special mounting device, and error-prone cable connections that may lose contact are no
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The heart of the system is an Atmel ATmega328P AVR microcontroller with 32kB of Flash and 2k of RAM running at a whopping 16MHz. It interfaces an I2C 12bit DAC (the MCP47FEB21A1) and the LTC2992 dual power monitor chip. The USB serial interface uses the MCP2221A bridge. The display is a classic 16×2 LCD. On the analog part, 10mΩ
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With the official launch of the i.MX8 X Arm® Cortex®-A35 CPUs from NXP on May 14, 2020, the technology company TQ is bringing two modules based on the new core architecture into the market. As an NXP Early Access Partner for the i.MX8 X, TQ has already introduced the TQMa8Xx and TQMa8XxS modules, now they
TQ PRODUCT LAUNCH OF CPU MODULES BASED ON NXP’S I.MX 8X ARM® CORTEX®-A35 Read More »
F&S Elektronik Systeme GmbH presents a prototype of a direct solder module. It’a a 30 x 30mm “OSM-MX8MM” module that runs Linux on an i.MX8M Mini. As part of the SGET, the standardization group SDT.05 was founded jointly by iesy GmbH, F&S Elektronik Systeme GmbH and Kontron AG. The aim of this group is a new standard
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This grid of letters is a puzzle game for tablet devices called Ruzzle. The contraption attached is an automated solver which uses LEGO Mindstorm parts to input the solutions on the screen. [Alberto Sarullo] is the mastermind behind the project. As you can seen in his demo video after the break he has a flair for the
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[Görg Pflug] wrote in with his really nice graphics library. It’s got multiple layers, two text consoles, greyscale, internal halftoning, and sprites. It can pull off a number of classic graphics tricks and demos. Oh yeah, and did we mention it runs on a freaking ATtiny85 and an I2C OLED screen?! This is an amazing piece of work
MINDBLOWING GRAPHICS FROM AN ATTINY85 Read More »
