Android Sources For The Asus Tinker Board

From hackaday.com 1 month ago in Blogs

The Asus Tinker Board is one of the quiet achievers of the powerful single board computer market. A Raspberry Pi form factor with a significantly more powerful processor, more memory, faster networking, and Asus build quality. In hardware terms it...

IoT Chore Reminder for the Serially Forgetful

From hackaday.com 1 month ago in Blogs

The secret to domestic bliss often lies in attention to detail, an area in which we can all do a little better. But if paper notes and smartphone reminders are not enough to help you remember to knock jobs off...

Only Mechanical Relays Will Do for Automated Hi-Fi Audio Source Switching

From hackaday.com 1 month ago in Blogs

If you are a devotee of audiophile-quality analogue hi-fi, switching between sources simply can not be done through a solid-state device. Only physical switches will do because they come without the risk of extra noise or distortion that their silicon...

Wireless Protocol Reverse Engineered to Create Wrist Wearable Mouse

From hackaday.com 1 month ago in Blogs

We’ve seen a few near-future sci-fi films recently where computers respond not just to touchscreen gestures but also to broad commands, like swiping a phone to throw its display onto a large flat panel display. It’s a nice metaphor, and...

A Brief History of the Emergency Communications Network

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 month ago in BlogsNews

What are emergency communications networks? How were they developed and who put them in place? Here's a look at how the US spreads information to its populace quickly in case of emergencies.

IoT Potty Training

From hackaday.com 1 month ago in Blogs

If you have not had children, stop reading now, we implore you. Because before you’ve had kids, you can’t know how supremely important it is that they take care of going to the bathroom by themselves. [David Gouldin] knows how...

High-Effort Streaming Remote for Low-Effort Bingeing

From hackaday.com 1 month ago in Blogs

There’s no limit to the amount of work some people will put into avoiding work. For instance, why bother to get up from your YouTube-induced vegetative state to adjust the volume when you can design and build a remote to...

A Faster Grave Digger For Your Child

From hackaday.com 1 month ago in Blogs

Children love speed, but so few of those electric ride on toys deliver it. What’s a kid to do? Well, if [PoppaFixit]’s your dad, you’re in luck. This project starts with an unusually cool Power Wheels toy, based on the...

What Exactly Is a Phase-Locked Loop, Anyways?

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 month ago in BlogsNews

This article introduces a phase-based feedback system that plays an important role in many applications.

4 mA Integrated Sensor Transmitter Boasts Small Footprint

From circuitcellar.com 1 month ago in News

Maxim Integrated Products has announced the MAX12900, an ultra-low power, highly integrated 4 mA to  20 mA sensor transmitter. Embedded system developers can use it to create small, low power and highly accurate designs for industrial automation system. Ideal applications...

Nonvolatile Resistance Switching in Atom Thin Memristors

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 month ago in BlogsNews

A research team with members globally has created what seems to be the first working atomically thin memristor.

High Voltage: An Up to 99% Efficiency Buck-Boost Controller from Linear Technology

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 month ago in BlogsNews

A four-switch DC/DC controller that operates from input voltages above, below, or equal to the regulated output voltage.

How to Reduce Power Consumption with Clock Gating

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 month ago in BlogsNews

This article will discuss the basic concepts of clock gating and how it can be used to reduce the power consumption of synchronous digital systems.

An Integrated High-Current Power Module: 0.5 to 2 Volt at 35 Amps from Texas Instruments

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 1 month ago in BlogsNews

Texas Instruments has released a fixed-frequency step-down power module that delivers up to 35 Amps at output voltages ranging from 0.5 to 2 V.

IoT: From Device to Gateway

From circuitcellar.com 1 month ago in News

Modules for the Edge Connecting to the IoT edge requires highly integrated technology, blending wireless connectivity and intelligence. Feeding those needs, a variety of IoT modules have emerged that offer pre-certified solutions that are ready to use. By Jeff Child,...

How to Low-Pass Filter a Square Wave

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 months ago in BlogsNews

This article, part of AAC’s Analog Circuit Collection, presents a circuit that is a good choice when you need to remove high-frequency noise from a digital signal.

An Electronically Resettable Hot Swap Smart Fuse from ON Semiconductor

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 months ago in BlogsNews

ON Semiconductor offers their new hot swap smart fuse which is an electronically resettable and programmable in-line fuse for high-current applications.

Power Switching Regulator Has Boost and 3x Buck Capabilities

From circuitcellar.com 2 months ago in News

Analog Devices has announced the Power by Linear LT8603, a 42 V input capable, high efficiency quad output monolithic switching regulator. Its flexible design combines a boost controller with two high voltage 2.5 A and 1.5 A synchronous step-down channels...

Drones Ascend to New Heights: Bringing Unique Perspective to Broadening Markets

From circuitcellar.com 2 months ago in News

Fewer emerging technologies have captured the imagination as dramatically as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or as they are more commonly referred to, drones. The same technological innovations that have brought us smartphones, IoT and wearables have brought us an explosion...

Forecasts Predict Deluge of Powerful IoT Sensors

From circuitcellar.com 2 months ago in News

Tech the Future: The Future of IoT Sensors By Zach Wendt, Engineer, Arrow  Electronics Nearly all predictions estimating how many IoT devices we’ll have in the near future number in the tens of billions. This includes devices monitoring everything from...

LED Dimming: A High-Power 40V Buck LED Driver with Two Dimming Methods from Diodes Incorporated

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 months ago in BlogsNews

Diodes Incorporated has released a high-power 40 V LED controller that's capable of driving up to 3 amps of current.

Providers and Manufacturers Are Getting 5G Ready

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 months ago in BlogsNews

It’s only been just over a month, but already 5G is starting to pop up in the repertoire of device designers and being used for demonstration purposes to spread the word. Here are a few examples that demonstrate we’ll be...

DC-DC Converter Family Targets Modern Railway Systems

From circuitcellar.com 2 months ago in News

Vicor has released its next generation of DCMs with a family of wide input range (43 V to 154 V input) 3623 (36 mm x 23mm) ChiPs with power levels up to 240 W and 93% efficiency, targeted at new...

Power Management ICs Reduce Charge Times

From circuitcellar.com 2 months ago in News

Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced several new power management chips that enable designers to boost efficiency and shrink power-supply and charger solution sizes for personal electronics and handheld industrial equipment. Operating at up to 1 MHz, TI’s new chipset combines...

650 V SiC FETs Cut Power System Loses

From circuitcellar.com 2 months ago in News

UnitedSiC has announced the UJ3C series of 650 V SiC FETs as drop-in replacements for silicon Superjunction MOSFETs. Available in standard TO-220, TO-247 and D2PAK-3L packages, they operate with standard Si-MOSFET gate drive, eliminating the need to re-design drive circuits,...

Encoding the States of a Finite State Machine in VHDL

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 months ago in BlogsNews

This article will review different encoding methods that can be used to implement the states of an FSM.

Cold Storage and Cold Chain Monitoring: A Highly Accurate Digital Temperature Sensor from ams

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 months ago in BlogsNews

A new highly accurate cold chain digital temperature sensor from ams makes the design of refrigerators and data loggers, in cold-chain storage equipment, a little easier.

Crash Landing on Venus to Proposing the World Wide Web: The March 2018 Hardware History Roundup

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 months ago in BlogsNews

Venera 3 crash lands on Venus, the Homebrew Computer Club meets for the first time, and the World Wide Web is proposed. Check out this hardware history roundup for March!

Historical Engineers: Alexander Graham Bell and the First Telephone

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 months ago in BlogsNews

March 3rd marks what would be the 171st birthday of Alexander Graham Bell. He is credited by many as the inventor of the telephone, but that wasn’t his only innovation.

What Exactly Is a Quartz Crystal, Anyways? A Look at Quartz Crystal Oscillators

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 months ago in BlogsNews

This article explains some theory behind an extremely common electronic component.