MKRZero, Arduino Newest Family Member
https://www.electronics-lab.com/mkrzero-arduino-newest-family-member/
Arduino had announced a new member of its family: MKRZero! This new board comes with the size of 61x25mm MKR1000 board and the power of ARM-core Arduino Zero. The ARM-core board consists of an on-board SD connector with dedicated SPI interfaces (SPI1) that make it easy to browse your files with no extra hardware. You […]
DICE10 – A miniaturized electronic die based on ATtiny10
https://www.electronics-lab.com/dice10-miniaturized-electronic-die-based-attiny10/
Making an electronic dice is very popular among hobbyists and there are already lots of ready-made projects on the internet about this topic. Tim at Hackaday.io designed an electronic dice project for “1KB Limit” competition. But why another dice project while the internet is already crowded with similar things? Well, it’s not the subject of this […]
Efficient Low-Cost Solar Energy Converter
https://www.electronics-lab.com/efficient-low-cost-solar-energy-converter/
Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique have invented a new device to store solar power while the sun’s not shining by converting it into Hydrogen. Although many current methods use the same approach to store energy, but this device rivals them in stability, efficiency and […]
A Christmas star with Neopixel LEDs
https://www.electronics-lab.com/christmas-star-neopixel-leds/
A geeky Christmas decoration made with 56 LED Neopixel and controlled via an Arduino Micro board: Let’s take a look, therefore, at the project’s electrical section, that is essentially composed of a set of 56 Neopixel LEDs, that have been arranged so to form two concentric stars; the first 35 RGB LEDs (out of 56) […]
Bitmap graphics on an Arduino Touch Screen and other top Arduino Displays
https://www.electronics-lab.com/bitmap-graphics-arduino-touch-screen-top-arduino-displays/
In this video tutorial educ8s.tv shows us how to load bitmap graphics in our Arduino Touch Screen projects using Adafruit’s GFX library. The procedure that I am going to describe works with all the color displays that are supported by Adafruit’s GFX library and by the displays that use the TFTLCD library from Adafruit with […]
Buck regulators accept up to 40-V input
https://www.electronics-lab.com/buck-regulators-accept-40-v-input/
by Susan Nordyk @ edn.com: A wide input range of 4.5 V to 40 V enables the TS3004x series of DC/DC synchronous buck regulators from Semtech to work in a wide range of applications, including industrial, telecommunication, and consumer. The current-mode TS30041 and TS30042 furnish 1 mA and 2 mA of continuous output current, respectively, […]
MEAS: five weather sensors on one Arduino shield
https://www.electronics-lab.com/meas-five-weather-sensors-one-arduino-shield/
by Jan Buiting @ elektormagazine.com: In a stint of list-o-mania TE Connectivity have slapped five environmental sensors on a single board called MEAS for plugging onto the Arduino/Genuino 101 and Uno R3. Here goes in telegram style. MEAS: five weather sensors on one Arduino shield – [Link]
Intel(r) Quark(tm) micrcontroller D2000 based Environmental sensors board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/intelr-quarktm-micrcontroller-d2000-based-environmental-sensors-board/
Sergey Kiselev designed and built an Intel Quark D2000 micrcontroller based Environmental sensors board: This is a fairly small (51 x 51 mm) board, equipped with a low power Intel Quark D2000 microcontroller, and several sensors (accelerator, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure), as well as a mikroBUS compatible header and a Grove compatible connectors, that can be […]
Supercapacitors Surpassing Conventional Batteries
https://www.electronics-lab.com/supercapacitors-surpassing-conventional-batteries/
Researchers at the University of Central Florida have been looking for alternatives for lithium rechargeable batteries which are largely used in every device. Using two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) capacitive materials, they are building a new supercapacitor that overcomes the performance of conventional lithium battery and replaces its efficiently. Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers (TMDs) are […]
Bluetooth 5 Is Here!
https://www.electronics-lab.com/bluetooth-5-is-here/
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has officially launched the core specifications of the new version of Bluetooth: Bluetooth 5. These specifications include longer range, faster speed, and larger broadcast message capacity, as well as improved interoperability and coexistence with other wireless technologies than recent Bluetooth versions, making it possible to advance IoT applications and […]