Massive IoT and the Internet of Transformation Traditionally, IoT is defined as the “Internet of Things.” However, there is a different and more accurate description for IoT: the “Internet of Transformation.” The transformation occurs when the things in our daily...

Smart Poles: A Thermal Management Challenge It seems everyone is talking about smart cities these days, and with good reason. The prospect of an entire city working harmoniously via interconnected technology is truly exciting. From Toyota’s “Woven City” [1] to...

eCapture has introduced what it claims is the smallest form factor stereoscopic 3D depth sensing camera. The new LifeSense G53 measures 50mm x 14.9mm x 20 mm and is designed for depth capture and object tracking for industrial, robotics and...

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Using Teensy 4.1 Using the same store-bought speaker system for both TV audio and playing music means dealing with unwelcome trade-offs. With that in mind, in this project article Brian taps a Teensy 4.1 to build a home-brew digital amplifier...

The October issue of Circuit Cellar is coming out next week! Here is a sneak peek at what’s inside. Embedded solutions for vision systems, retro microcomputer project, sensor ICs, ultraviolet LEDs, RISC-V technology, voltage-level translation, FreeRTOS and more! This 84-page...

Nordic Semiconductor has announced the launch of its “nRF Cloud Location Services.” The Cloud-based product enables customers to access detailed, fast and accurate commercial location services for their nRF9160 System-in-Package (SiP)-powered cellular IoT devices. Nordic says that the nRF Cloud...

Oscilloscopes are the tool of choice for every engineer when it comes to measurements. If the instrument can also work as a waveform generator and can do some mathematical calculations on the signals acquired, or allows automated tests, even better....

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Screens for All Seasons Displays designed for use in embedded systems keep evolving. Today’s crop of display products feature tiny form factors, sunlight-readable capabilities and embedded-friendly interfacing. We’ve come a long way from the days when adding a display to...

In May, Elephant Robotics launched a $699, six-axis manipulation bot called the MyCobot Pi, which is built around a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. Now the company has given its robot arm some wheels in the form of a MyAGV autonomous...

Motor Shaft Feedback In Part 1, Miguel covered how to use closed-loop motors as a replacement for stepper motors. Here, in Part 2 he explains how to get feedback from a motor shaft and how the control loop should be...

PICMG, has announced the release of the COM-HPC Platform Management Interface (PMI) specification. It provides a framework of remote and out-of-band platform management features for COM-HPC Computer-on-Module based edge computing designs and is freely available on the PICMG website. COM-HPC...

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Bipolar transistors are one of the basic building blocks of electronics, yet they can be challenging to understand and analyze in circuits. I find the Ebers-Moll model—or at least the “rules of thumb” that derive from it—are pretty much all...

CUI has announced the addition of twelve new models to its VMS-C and VMS-C-CNF range of internal medical AC-DC power supplies. Considerably extending the offering, these new, higher power models are chassis mount units available in open frame or metal...

STMicroelectronics has released the STEVAL-NRG011TV, a board that designers quickly build 200W digital power supplies and adapters for LED and OLED televisions to exceed the toughest energy-efficiency and standby regulations. Based on ST’s STNRG011 digital PFC (power-factor correction) and resonant...

Trinamic Motion Control, now part of Maxim Integrated, has introduced the fully integrated TMC6140-LA 3-phase MOSFET gate driver that simplifies design and maximizes battery life of brushless direct current (DC) motor drives. The TMC6140-LA 3-phase MOSFET gate driver integrates all...

Dialog Semiconductor has announced the release of the DA914X-A product family of efficient, high current, automotive grade, step down DC-DC (Buck) converters. The DA914X-A devices deliver high current levels, up to 40A, a significantly better alternative to power solutions that...

Multipurpose Trend Choosing right AC-DC power supply can have a major impact on your embedded system’s capabilities. Power supply manufactures are meeting today’s demands with devices designed to suit applications like industrial control, medical and IoT—and even multipurpose needs. While...

Using the BBC micro:bit In this project article, Matthew shares how he designed two devices that enable people with cerebral palsy to more easily access communication software to create speech. The units are based on the micro:bit, a compact MCU...

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Need a simple display for an upcoming design? Check out this easy-to-replicate solution. Devlin presents a simple microcontroller-based circuit to animate a four-digit, seven-segment LED. Inexpensive seven-segment, light-emitting diode (LED) displays were designed to represent the numbers zero through nine,...

The Setup In this 3-part article series, Dhairya explains how you can build your own IoT platform. In Part 1 he covers how to setup a virtual server, install the necessary software and set up some required components. He details...

Senet has announced it is significantly expanding the build out of its public network operating on the LoRaWAN standard across the Tampa Bay Metropolitan Region. With dense carrier-grade coverage already in place to support Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) for water...