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CurrentRanger updates

From lowpowerlab.com 4 months ago in Blogs

Thanks to MGX3D there are now some nice improvements to the CurrentRanger: Firmware updates and optimizations, battery icon instead of text (faster drawing) Improved sampling speed Smarter Auto-Off – avoids turning off when sampling via USB more menu items and...

DDM Novastar L-BF-12 Feeder upgrade

From lowpowerlab.com 7 months ago in Blogs

Over the past year or so I spent a lot of time designing and iterating over a new upgrade for my pick & place. The result is an upgrade kit that can be installed without modifying the original feeder. It...

MoteinoM0 R2 released

From lowpowerlab.com 7 months ago in Blogs

MoteinoM0 is now at revision R2. Here’s a summary of changes: removed castellations for the short side header, to allow better panelization and better routed side finish on the long sides. The castellations remain on the long sides. the micro...

New OTA GUI v2.0 released

From lowpowerlab.com 7 months ago in Blogs

If you’ve been using Wirelessly Programming, a unique feature that comes with all Moteinos, you will love this new update to the OTA GUI. The main requirement for this release was the ability to change the Programmer Moteino settings right...

MoteinoMEGA based Data Logger

From lowpowerlab.com 8 months ago in Blogs

Ed Mallon who runs the Cave Pearl Project, is all about “developing a data logging platform from inexpensive pre-made breakout boards, and are using this at the heart of new environmental sensors that anyone can build.” Ed is also a...

Gateway v9.1 release

From lowpowerlab.com 9 months ago in Blogs

The Pi Gateway software package is continuing to be improved and the latest release is v9.1.0 (see GitHub releases). It contains some breaking changes, new features, and bug fixes. This blog entry serves as a feature review, change log and update guide....

Current Ranger R3mk4 – new firmware & optimizations

From lowpowerlab.com 10 months ago in Blogs

The CurrentRanger continues to be improved especially on the firmware side, and in some hardware aspects as well. This blog is to summarize the most important changes and bug fixes with this new release: UF2 bootloader – allows easy backing...

MightyHat R4

From lowpowerlab.com 11 months ago in Blogs

I ran out of MightyHat stocks a few months ago and was debating whether it is time for a complete remake with a SAMD chip. While that feature set slowly baked in and out of my brain people kept bugging...

Moteino SAMD 1.5.0 release

From lowpowerlab.com 11 months ago in Blogs

There is a major new release for the Moteino SAMD Boards Package 1.5.0. It will popup as an update reminder the next time you restart Arduino IDE, or you can go to the Boards Manager and update from there: Here...

Current Ranger R3 released!

From lowpowerlab.com 2 years ago in Blogs

CurrentRanger is now at revision R3! I received great feedback and several threads in the forum outlined some patterns of user behavior which led me to make some improvements and hopefully eliminate some of the issues I’ve seen people run...

Gateway V9 Released

From lowpowerlab.com 2 years ago in Blogs

The Pi Gateway software is now at v9.0.0, this release is a major new feature and bug fix release. This blog entry serves as a change log and feature review. Below are the main highlights. New Node button & sample metric generators (ex:...

RFM69 10bit node addresses

From lowpowerlab.com 2 years ago in Blogs

I made some changes to the RFM69 library to support 10bit node addresses, and you should see version 1.3.0 available in your Arduino IDE Library Manager. Previously the standard was a 1byte (8bits) address for sender and receiver, a total...

CurrentRanger review & availability

From lowpowerlab.com 2 years ago in Blogs

Sunday morning I woke to an unusual amount of email asking about the CurrentRanger availability. And the limited stock was all gone, so I knew something happened. I was then pointed to to Andreas Spiess’s latest video: Thanks to Andreas...

Romania: Happy 100th birthday!

From lowpowerlab.com 2 years ago in Blogs

My readers may not know that I hold dual citizenship, and was born and spent my first 19 years of life in Oradea – a beautiful city at the foot of the pittoresque Carpathian Apuseni mountains and in the western part of Transylvania...

Portable RaspberryPi IP Camera Monitor

From lowpowerlab.com 2 years ago in Blogs

RaspberryPi projects are always lots of fun, and when combine it with displays, 3D printing and Moteinos, the result can only be awesome! I had an older RaspberryPi and a touch display, and I wanted a portable IP camera monitor...

CurrentRanger: auto-ranging current meter

From lowpowerlab.com 2 years ago in Blogs

I’ve always wanted a fast auto-ranging low-burden voltage current meter. You may find expensive high end bench meters which can auto-range they may be slow or lack the bandwidth to capture fast dynamic loads that go through several orders of...

New products: M0 Breakout boards

From lowpowerlab.com 3 years ago in Blogs

There are now a few more breakouts available in the shop. With the release of MoteinoM0 I also wanted to make available a few boards specifically designed to mount flat on the M0 PCB for a super compact wireless sensor...

Weekend Project: Wireless Microscope Light Ring

From lowpowerlab.com 3 years ago in Blogs

I have an Bausch & Lomb optical Stereo-Zoom (SZ4) microscope which is a great instrument and not a luxury when you do a lot of SMD prototyping and repairs. The light solution for this was a simple piece of white...

Transceivers In-Depth Overview

From lowpowerlab.com 3 years ago in Blogs

I prepared a complementary video to cover all the basics of the LoRa and RFM69 transceivers used on Moteino boards. I concentrated on the most common topics I’ve seen show up in the forum and in support emails. This should...

Pick and Place Nozzle Demagnetization

From lowpowerlab.com 3 years ago in Blogs

Since my LE40-V Pick & Place machine’s factory PCB holder is difficult to use, has no support, and is not well suited for V-scored panels, I had to get creative and use neodymium magnets on a metal plate to hold the PCB...

New Dipole Antenna Review & How-To

From lowpowerlab.com 3 years ago in Blogs

I’m pleased to introduce a new version of the PCB Dipole Antenna, a significant upgrade from the previous version. This has a nice VSWR of almost 1.0 at both 868Mhz (at default 78mm length), and 915Mhz (trimmed at 73.5mm). It...

3D printed magnetic holders for pick & place

From lowpowerlab.com 3 years ago in Blogs

The LE40V pick & place PCB holders consist of 2 adjustable brackets that are meant to hold the PCB tightly on 2 sides (let’s call them TOP and BOTTOM) while the machine pounds the panel with parts. Typically you’d set...

Lasercut shipping boxes from scrap

From lowpowerlab.com 3 years ago in Blogs

Do you have a laser cutter? Do you need an emergency shipping box? The USPS Priority Small Flat Rate Box has a nice template that can produce an easy to cut resizable box from the endless supply of throw-away cardboard...

SwitchMote available with PSU R3

From lowpowerlab.com 3 years ago in Blogs

The full SwitchMote kit is available again. I had to redesign the PSU cover and some 3D printed spacers which fit the new PSU R3. Everything is pretty much the same as before, except that there’s significantly less soldering to do....

New MoteinoM0 Released!

From lowpowerlab.com 3 years ago in Blogs

If you’ve watched the forum, it’s been suggested to develop a new Moteino board featuring new/more powerful/more flexible or even ARM microcontrollers. Mentioned candidates were the Atmega328PB, STM32, SAMD from Microchip and perhaps others were mentioned over time as well....

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