Month: August 2016

Jone Teel over Makezine walked through how to use BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy ), aka Bluetooth smart, in an electronic product. BLE, unlike classic Bluetooth, it's not designed for big data transmission or streaming audio or video. BLE comes in SoC (System on Chip) ICs which combine a RF...

ESP8266, the well known WiFi module contains an ESP8266EX SoC IC and an external SPI flash. This external SPI flash is used together with ESP8266EX to store user programs. The supported size of flash by ESP8266EX is up to 16MB but some of ESP8266 modules contain flash chips with low...

Let's have a look at what Zener Diodes are, and how they work! What is a Zener Diode? -...

AxelP6 @ instructables.com has uploaded a new tutorial on how to make a simple arduino radio based on 2.2" TFT ILI9225 controller, TEA5767 breakout board and Arduino MEGA2560. The radio can play a list of predefined stations and can't scan through them. So, I was searching for a...

Linear Technology's LTC3256 is a high voltage low noise dual output power supply, which takes a single positive input and generates 5V and 3.3V step-down supplies with high efficiency and no inductors. by Julien Happich @ edn-europe.com The device features a wide 5.5V...

It has been one month since the Autodesk’s acquisition of Cadsoft. After the acquisition, they redesigned the website and changed the domain name from cadsoftusa.com to cadsoft.io. It seems that Autodesk is going very fast toward sharing with community what they intend to do with...

Every maker and electronics hobbyist knows how hardware is messy. A lot of tools are needed in our labs like voltmeter, oscilloscope, breadboard, wires, power supply, etc. A startup form India designed a new platform called Evive as an all-in-one solution to build and debug your...

Thanks to Internet, the problem of time shifting in embedded and connected devices was solved using time synchronization over Internet. National Institute of Standards and Technology provides a service called Network Time Service (NTS) over the Internet. The project of ESP8266-based...