ESP8266: Monitoring Power Consumption


https://www.electronics-lab.com/esp8266-monitoring-power-consumption/

Dani Eichhorn @ thingpulse.com writes: In this post I’m going to show you how you can monitor the power consumption of your battery driven (ESP8266/ ESP32) device. Measuring the power consumption over a full activity/ sleep cycle is the precondition to optimize your code for a longer battery runtime. Only with a reliable tool you […]

Fujitsu Electronics Europe expands its Bluetooth Low Energy portfolio


https://www.electronics-lab.com/fujitsu-electronics-europe-expands-bluetooth-low-energy-portfolio/

Adding components from Ambiq Micro and Talent Highland, Fujitsu Electronics Europe has increased its Bluetooth Low Energy portfolio. The additional products offer customers high integration, low power consumption and flexibility, says Fujitsu Electronics Europe (FEE), and it has produced the ClickBeetle reference platform (pictured) to facilitate the integration of Bluetooth Low Energy products into applications. […]

Adafruit RGB Matrix Bonnet – Control RGB Matrix Display Easily with a Raspberry Pi


https://www.electronics-lab.com/adafruit-rgb-matrix-bonnet-control-rgb-matrix-display-easily-raspberry-pi/

RGB Matrix displays are a great way adding interactions to a project and displaying objects in a 2D space. RGB LED matrices can be used as a display for playing games, display animations, watch movies, display sensor data, and much more can be the done with these big and beautiful LED displays. Of course, RGB Matric […]

MC33035 Brushless motor driver breakout board


https://www.electronics-lab.com/mc33035-brushless-motor-driver-breakout-board/

The board shown here is a breakout board for MC33035 brushless motor controller. It requires an output buffer IPM module or Mosfets to complete the closed loop brushless motor driver. MC33035 IC is the heart of the project; the project provides 6 PWM pulses as well 6 Inverse pulses outputs. On board Jumpers helps to […]

Arduino distance meter with Ultrasonic Sensor (HC SR04) and Nokia 5110 LCD display


https://www.electronics-lab.com/arduino-distance-meter-ultrasonic-sensor-hc-sr04-nokia-5110-lcd-display/

Measuring distance is so important in today’s world that things like driverless cars will be impossible without it, that description is probably enough to describe how important knowing the distance between two objects can be. For that reason, today we will be building a distance meter using the Arduino and the HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor. The […]

Rohde & Schwarz ZNLE 1MHz – 6GHz Vector Network Analyzer Review, Teardown & Experiments


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 Rohde & Schwarz ZNLE 1MHz – 6GHz Vector Network Analyzer Review, Teardown & Experiments – [Link]

Adafruit Metro 328 – An Arduino Uno Compatible Development Board


https://www.electronics-lab.com/adafruit-metro-328-arduino-uno-compatible-development-board/

The Adafruit Metro 328 development board is an alternative to the Arduino Uno with an equivalent and compatible board design. It’s designed and manufactured by Adafruit. The Metro 328 just like other Arduino Uno clones is also based on the famous Atmega 328P that has been used in various development boards and projects. The Metro […]

Embedded World Free Ticket from OEMsecrets


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Join OemSecrets.com at Embedded World 2018 Next Tuesday 27th February – Thursday 1st March, meet OEMsecrets at the world’s leading embedded systems conference in Nuremberg, Embedded World. Get your free ticket and meet us for a Tucher or two on stand 4A-612 to rehydrate! We’ll showcase our latest site developments, including new API capabilities and future site features such as our parametric search. As part of our […]

Constant current linear LED driver IC improves efficiency for LED strips


https://www.electronics-lab.com/constant-current-linear-led-driver-ic-improves-efficiency-led-strips/

The BCR430U constant current linear LED driver IC’s drop performance regulates LED current in standalone operation for LED lighting. No external power transistor is needed, says Infineon Technologies. Typical applications for the BCR430U include LED strips, architectural LED lighting, LED displays and retail, appliance and emergency lighting. The voltage drop of the integrated driver IC […]

Robby – A Simple and Powerful Robot to Learn Electronics and Programming


https://www.electronics-lab.com/robby-simple-powerful-robot-learn-electronics-programming/

Over the years we have seen a significant interest in people wanting to learn electronics and programming but are mostly handicapped with what they could build. Over time, learning has been proven to be more reliable when learning is more practical, and we can quickly grasp the concept if one is seeing what he or […]