Many of will have marveled at the feats of reverse engineering achieved by decapping integrated circuits and decoding their secrets by examining the raw silicon die. Few of us will have a go for ourselves, but that doesn’t stop the process being a fascinating one. Fortunately [Ryan Cornateanu] is on hand with a step-by-step description of […]
REVERSE ENGINEERING SILICON, ONE TRANSISTOR AT A TIME Continue Reading
AAEON launched their UP board family back in 2015 with the original board featuring an Atom X5 Cherry Trail processor. Since then they’ve launched more models all based on processors with 10W or lower TDP (Thermal Design Power) such as UP Squared Apollo Lake development board. Now, they have introduced an Intel Core-U series Whiskey Lake processor (15W TDP)
UP XTREME SBC FEATURES INTEL WHISKEY LAKE PROCESSOR Continue Reading
Designers of portable Li-ion battery-powered electronics now have a simplified and more flexible way to add a USB Type-C (USB-C) charging system to their products with the MAX77860 3A switch-mode charger from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM). This USB-C buck charger provides the industry’s first integrated USB-C port controller and charger to eliminate the
HIGHLY INTEGRATED USB-C BUCK CHARGER FROM MAXIM REDUCES SIZE BY 30 PERCENT Continue Reading
VAMRS Limited launched Rock96 Model C, which retains being part of their 96Boards ecosystem. ROCK960 is the first 96boards based on Rockchip processor. Featuring RK3399 with Dual A72 plus Quad A53 cores and Mali T860MP4 makes it one of the most powerful 96boards. Here is a brief explanation of 96board ecosystem: 96boards is a range of specifications with boards and peripherals offering different performance levels and features in
RK3399 SOC BASED ROCK960 MODEL C FEATURES 4-LANES PCI-E 2.1 Continue Reading
Since the ESP8266 came on the scene a few years ago and revolutionized the way microcontrollers communicate with other devices, incremental progress on this chip has occurred at a relatively even pace. First there was the realization that code could be run on the chip itself. Next the ESP32 was released which built more on
USB COMES TO THE ESP32 Continue Reading
VAMRS has designed a new version of their board with the launch of the Rock960 model C, that is much cheaper than the early Rockchip RK3399 Rock960 board and still compliant to 96Board’s specifications without losing out in performance. In comparison with last year prices, 96Boards compliant Rock960 board was sold for $99 and up. It had these main features: Rockchip RK3399 processor, up to 4GB RAM,
ROCK960 MODEL C BOARD – A CHEAPER VERSION OF ITS PREDECESSOR AT ONLY $69 Continue Reading
Let’s learn to sense movement in a room with a PIR motion sensor and Arduino’s digital input. We’ll connect up a circuit using a breadboard and use some simple Arduino code to control a single LED. We’ll use Tinkercad Circuits to simulate the circuit so you can follow along even without any components, and show
PIR Motion Sensor With Arduino in Tinkercad Continue Reading
Micro routers are portable USB mini routers used for cyber privacy or as access points. They are easy plug and play devices. GL.inet has introduced a low-cost micro router based on OpenWRT. The GL-USB150 micro router comes with the Qualcomm QCA9331 CPU, MIPS processor with the speed of 400 MHz, 64 MB DDR3 Ram is installed for system memory purpose.
LOW COST GL-USB150 MICRO ROUTER – A POTENTIAL WEAPON IN DISGUISE Continue Reading
AAEON, an award winning manufacturer of embedded PC solutions, is proud to announce the BOXER-6405U, a turn-key rugged embedded PC built to be flexible and adaptable to a wide range of Industry 4.0 applications, including machine vision, AI edge computing, and industrial IoT gateway. The BOXER-6405U is built to be a go-anywhere, work-anywhere solution. Rugged design gives it
THE COMPACT BOXER-6405U: THE GATEWAY TO INDUSTRY 4.0 Continue Reading
I made a Sunlight simulating lightbox with a mountain village skyline, that I might upgrade to a wake-up light some time, for a school project. Step 1: Get the Supplies Supplies I used: -Arduino UNO -Neopixel ledstrip 1m, 30 leds(DC5V-W2812) -3 jumper wires -USB cable type B -5V power adapter -Aluminum tape(or aluminum foil) -4mm
ITTT – Sunlight Simulating Lightbox Continue Reading
