DC-DC converters are widely used components that convert DC power from one voltage to another, producing a regulated output voltage. These devices are used in many electronic products, including laptops, mobile phones, and instrumentation. Like any device, DC-DC converters need to be characterized by manufacturers and by engineers evaluating them for a design. Given the […]
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In May 2013, I learned about Ward Cunningham’s Txtzyme language – a very simple serial command interpreter which allowed basic control of microcontroller function using a serial interface. I wrote about it here: Txtzyme – A minimal interpretive language and thoughts on simple extensions Tytzyme was about as easy as a “language” could get, it
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I’ve built a number of projects that have interfaced the output of the Simple Bat Detector with a microprocessor. The most recent was the BatLogger II. But I hadn’t come up with an easy way for others to experiment with this idea … until now. My friend, Frank, in Germany, had wanted to make a
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UPDATES October 30, 2013 – 7PM (GMT+2) The new official name for this app is ArduDroid and it can be installed from Google Play. I changed the name to avoid a naming conflict with another app. September 15, 2013: I Have won a Nexus 7 tablet for this project part of a competition held
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Dimmer With MOSFET This circuit shows that dimmers intended for use at mains voltage do not always have to contain a triac. Here, a MOSFET (BUZ41A, 500 V/4.5A) in a diode bridge is used to control the voltage across an incandescent bulb with pulse-width modulation (PWM). The power supply voltage for driving the gate is
Safe and simple AC PWM Dimmer for arduino / Raspberry pi Continue Reading
Hi Everyone! I’ve had a few people ask about creating a simple clap-on/clap-off circuit using Arduino. Well those who are interested are now in luck. The software in this instructable is simple and well commented. The schematic is simple, and the components are easy and inexpensive to acquire! All you’ll need are 6x components, and
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We are often asked on discussion boards, about conflicts between IRremote or IRLib and other Arduino Libraries. In this post, we present a sketch for ‘Simple Infrared PWM on Arduino’. This is the first part in a 3 part series of posts. Part 1 shows how to generate the simple Infrared carrier frequency on Arduino,
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