Month: November 2015

If you enjoy APRS (the Automatic Packet Reporting System) in US and Canada this device will make your life easier. All you need is the tiny board, your radio and an Android phone. Introducing the Mobilinkd Bluetooth APRS® TNC. With your radio, your Android phone and this TNC, you...

by Clemens Valens @ elektormagazine.com EAGLE‘s export and import capabilities have been extended, allowing users to import designs that are in Gerber format into the board editor and use them as board templates for component placement or as a manual routing guide. Basic Gerber...

An arduino-compatible FPGA platform that can be used for a wide range of applications. The Mango is a compact field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) platform that can be used for a wide range of projects, such as signal processing, mobile computing and robotics. FPGA Mango board...

An application note from Littelfuse about USB protection. This application note addresses the various requirements for protecting the Universal Serial Bus (USB) from overcurrent and overvoltage environmental threats. The solutions presented cover both USB 1.1 and the higher speed USB...

Chipino is an electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, students, technicians, engineers and anyone else interested in creating interactive gadgets. Chipino is not designed to replace...

POWER PLAY are Arduino based smart power monitors that are used to measure and optimize the power consumption of battery operated devices such as smart phones. This model provides the most accurate results but requires modifying the tested device. The POWER PLAY 3.8V outputs...

Epson has revealed a new atomic oscillator to provide a better accuracy device for telecommunication networks. This new oscillator is using a special laser and IC that are developed by Epson. Seiko Epson Corporation has developed a small, highly stable atomic oscillator, the...

Maurizio tipped us about his latest article. In this article he talks about the different ways of transmitting video signal over large distances. He writes: Traditionally, the physical environment for transmitting video signals over long distances has been the shielded coax cable....