With the host of protocols available in electronics interfaces, choosing a protocol is a hard job. Some protocols are designed for long distance and reliable communication applications such as RS-485. Others are used for low cost and short range communication such as I2C, and so...

In the era of Internet of Things, we wanted most of our home appliances to become smart. But currently, smart devices may cost much more than their offline counterparts and they often do not communicate with each other. Trying to overcome these limitations, A Ph.D student invented a way...

Designing a PCB layout is a work of engineering art, includes placing components and routing them through different layers. So when you assign the same job for different engineers, each one would make it in his own way. But sometimes when working on a complex design some help may be...

Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com discuss about Linear's low noise buck-boost converter LTC3246, able to produce 3.3V, 5V or ADJ regulated with an input range of 2.7V to 38V : LTC3246 is a low noise buck-boost charge pump with integrated watchdog timer capable of up to 500 mA...

Clayton G. Hobbs @ hackaday.io published some details of his project, a USB power delivery board. He writes: USB Power Delivery is a cool standard for getting lots of power—up to 100 W—from a USB Type-C port. Being an open standard for supplying enough power to charge phones,...

The ‘Pi Desktop’ kit from element14 offers some great features like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a real-time clock, an interface for an mSATA-SSD hard drive, an optional camera, heat sink, a neat power switch and of course the sleek black case. [via] The Raspberry Pi is a well designed,...

by Eric Bogers @ elektormagazine.com discuss about a new project that aims to create the first image of a black hole. He writes: A powerful network of radio telescopes, spread around our planet, attempts for the first time to create an image of a black hole. Black holes are...

Overview of the Tektronix MSO58 8-Channel 6.25GS/s 2GHz Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope -...