Month: July 2020

The 8 Channel Driver Arduino UNO Shield is designed to enable users to switch inductive loads for up to 800mA each channel and up to 24V DC with no heat-sink needed. It is ideal for such applications as driving 2x unipolar stepper motors, solenoids, relays, and small DC motors. It uses...

Würth Elektronik's ShielDIY kit is a fast prototyping solution for board-level shielding cabinets Würth Elektronik has created a do-it-yourself custom shielding cabinet kit, the ShielDIY. The ShielDIY kit is a fast prototyping solution for board level shielding cabinets. The...

The new battery is scheduled for mass production in September 2020, with potential applications primarily in automotive and industrial IoT devices.  NGK INSULATORS, LTD. (hereinafter "NGK") has successfully raised the maximum operating temperature of its coin-type "EnerCera Coin"...

Shenzhen based computer hardware manufacturer, Beelink, recently teased the release of a series of new Mini PCs top of which was the Beelink Gemini M, an ultra-thin Mini PC powered by the Intel Celeron J4125 processor running with 8GB of RAM. Featuring an ultra-thin aluminum enclosure...

OpenCV has announced their AI Kit called OAK on Kickstarter. It is an MIT-licensed open-source software and Myriad X-based hardware solution for computer vision at any scale. OAK incorporates the OAK API software and two different types of hardware namely OAK-1, a, and OAK-D. The...

LED Bar graphs are one of the best ways to provide visual feedback to users in projects where using a screen might be an overkill. Especially in projects where you need to indicate level, intensity, and other values that are worth representing on a bar graph. The quality of LED bar...

One of the good things about being a maker is the power it gives you to create your own stuff. Believing USB devices have not lived up to their designation of truly being universal and working irrespective of the kind of ports they are plugged into, Hackaday user, Neutrino, recently...

Thanks to the increased popularity of the recent ATtiny series of microcontrollers, there has been an increase in the number of open-source UPDI programmers out there. We have covered quite a number of them including the brilliant UPDI programmer compatible with Arduino IDE but we...