Introducing Project Fin: a board for fleet owners


https://www.electronics-lab.com/introducing-project-fin-board-fleet-owners/

Introducing Project Fin, a carrier board designed for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 Lite. It’s a carrier board that can run all the software that the Raspberry Pi can run, hardened for field deployment use cases, and adding some of the things we’ve seen our users needing the most. It includes 8/16/32/64 GB of […]

Powering Batteries With Protons – A Potential Disruption in the Energy Industry


https://www.electronics-lab.com/powering-batteries-protons-potential-disruption-energy-industry/

Climate Change have been a crucial factor taken into consideration by the Australian researchers from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before creating the first rechargeable proton battery. After considering all available options about cost and availability of the materials needed, the researchers in Melbourne decided to make a proton battery to meet up with the […]

Program Pi, BeagleBone and Other Linux SBCs On The Arduino Create Platform


https://www.electronics-lab.com/now-can-program-pi-beaglebone-linux-sbcs-arduino-create-platform/

We have seen the massive ecosystem the Arduino has built and established over the last few years and this has made developing with Arduino quite leisurely. It is way easier to solve a programming issue or hardware issue with Arduino unlike other hardware boards mostly due to its community.  Arduino Create is an online platform by the […]

How to make precision measurements on a nanopower budget


https://www.electronics-lab.com/make-precision-measurements-nanopower-budget/

Gen Vansteeg @ ti.com discuss about precision measurement for nanopower scale using OPAMPs. Heightened accuracy and speed in an operational amplifier (op amp) has a direct relationship with the magnitude of its power consumption. Decreasing the current consumption decreases the gain bandwidth; conversely, decreasing the offset voltage increases the current consumption. Many such interactions between […]

HDC2010 – Low Power Humidity and Temperature Sensor


https://www.electronics-lab.com/hdc2010-low-power-humidity-temperature-sensor/

The HDC2010 is an integrated humidity and temperature sensor that provides high accuracy measurements with very low power consumption, in an ultra-compact WLCSP (Wafer Level Chip Scale Package). The sensing element of the HDC2010 is placed on the bottom part of the device, which makes the HDC2010 more robust against dirt, dust, and other environmental […]

USB Adaptive Charger (2.7A per port) with Wattmeter


https://www.electronics-lab.com/usb-adaptive-charger-2-7a-per-port-wattmeter/

A 10.8A, 4 port USB charger with a wattmeter and adaptive intelligent charging. It works by taking any DC input between 7V to 17V, from an AC/DC adapter or car adapter. It can be used anywhere with wall outlets, car power ports, lead-acid batteries, DC-output solar panels, and lithium-ion battery packs (2S, 3S, and 4S). […]

TPS61092 Boost Converter on Test Bench


https://www.electronics-lab.com/tps61092-boost-converter-test-bench/

luckyresistor.me tests his TPS61092 boost converter with a thermal camera and shares the results. For my current project I searched for a good boost power converter which is able to deliver continuous 400mA power for various sensors. There are an endless number of good boost converters around, but not many can be hand soldered to a […]

MEMS technology shrinks loudspeakers


https://www.electronics-lab.com/mems-technology-shrinks-loudspeakers/

Miniature MEMS-based speakers could revolutionize speech and music reproduction in mobile communication devices. They combine the advantages of a large frequency bandwidth and high acoustic quality with the ability to generate very high sound levels. Nevertheless, they are so tiny that they can be integrated into headphones. By Christoph Hammerschmidt @ eenewseurope.com The breakthrough has […]

Qoitech’s power measurement tool in distribution


https://www.electronics-lab.com/qoitechs-power-measurement-tool-distribution/

Power measurement software by Qoitech is available from Digi-Key Electronics, following the signing of a worldwide distribution agreement to distribute Otii, a power measurement tool with software. Otii provides developers with the means to simplify power measurement of applications and devices, especially those targeting the IoT space and aiming for optimised, long battery life. Otii […]

9 Tiny Microcontroller Board Options to Complement Your Arduino Uno


https://www.electronics-lab.com/9-tiny-microcontroller-board-options-complement-arduino-uno/

The venerable Arduino Uno is the de facto standard in microcontroller development boards, but there are also other boards that can be hidden in a project to make it “smart.” Some even provide extra features like built-in Bluetooth or WiFi capabilities. While the Uno will certainly be used for years to come, due to its […]