Month: April 2016

Shantam Raj @ hackster.io discuss about how to panelize PCBs and generate Gerbers on Eagle CAD. In this article he shares his experience and common mistake he made in the process. I have been working with Eagle for quite some time but never really got a PCB manufactured. almost all...

Ken Shirriff wrote an article on reverse engineering the 555 timer chip, He writes: This article explains how the LMC555 timer chip works, from the tiny transistors and resistors on the silicon chip, to the functional units such as comparators and current mirrors that make it work....

Arthur Pini has compiled a list of tips and tricks for use on digital oscilloscopes. The article is separated on 3 parts. The first is "10 Tricks that extend oscilloscope usefulness" the second is "10 More tricks to extend oscilloscope usefulness" and the third on the link...

Sparkfun has compiled a list of resources about everything you need to design for manufacture an electronic product. Let’s be frank: We’ve made a lot of mistakes over the years. In the ongoing pursuit of better-designed PCBs, we’ve dealt with tons of screw-ups, from boards with...

Raj from Embedded Lab has posted a comprehensive tutorial on how to use BMP180 for temperature, pressure, and altitude measurements. The BMP180 is a new generation digital barometric pressure and temperature sensor from Bosch Sensortec. In this tutorial, we will briefly review this...

Lukas Fassler from Soldernerd has written up documentation on his DIY fan controller project: I’m currently mainly working on my new anemometer design but once in a while I get distracted. For example when my Keysight E3645A lab power supply was making so much noise that I could...

Micah Elizabeth Scott @ yoututbe.com does a teardown, repair, and mini-review of the 2007 vintage Protek B8010FD. Protek B8010FD Function Generator Teardown and repair -...

Here is a tutorial on how to use 433MHz RF modules to send data from an Arduino to another. The example code transmits a message to the serial port of receiver. The most practical and cool way of sharing data from 1 Arduino to another is by far using a radio transmitter and receiver....