TIG Announces Bluetera II Open Source IoT Motion-Based Development Board


https://www.electronics-lab.com/tig-announces-bluetera-ii-open-source-iot-motion-based-development-board/

Tensor Iotera Group (TIG) has announced its new Bluetera II open source full-stack development board, which according to the company uses Google’s Protocol Buffer technology for motion-based IoT applications. TIG says that the Bluetera II is the second generation module. Bluetera II is built to fill the gap for an open source platform that meets the following […]

Garz & Fricke extends product family of single board computers


https://www.electronics-lab.com/garz-fricke-extends-product-family-single-board-computers/

Garz & Fricke, supplier of hardware and software solutions for industrial IoT from Hamburg, will present its versatile product portfolio at the embedded world 2020 in Nuremberg. One of the exhibition highlights at booth 240 in hall 2 is the new TANARO Single Board Computer – a consistent further development of the existing product families. […]

NEXCOM Elevates Edge Computing Again with Cutting-edge, ARM-based uCPE


https://www.electronics-lab.com/nexcom-elevates-edge-computing-cutting-edge-arm-based-ucpe/

NEXCOM, the leading provider of network communication appliances and uCPE, introduces the NSA 6310, based on NXP® Semiconductors’ latest multi-core Layerscape® LX2160A platform. The NSA 6310 offers better performance and pricing than the market’s existing solutions and also fulfills telecom and IoT operators’ demand for multi-technology and edge computing white box solutions to address operational environment […]

BoxBlox’s Open Source Ethernet Switch Offers Five Ports


https://www.electronics-lab.com/boxbloxs-open-source-ethernet-switch-offers-five-ports/

SwitchBlox is an open-source ethernet switch designed by Josh Elijah, who is the founder of BoxBlox. It was designed to make life easier for robot and drone developers or anyone who needs to use an ethernet switch. The switch is tiny, thereby making it easy to use in size constrained areas. According to Josh, ” […]

Miromico’s FMLR-6x-x-MA62x, the “World’s Smallest” LoRaWAN Module


https://www.electronics-lab.com/miromicos-fmlr-6x-x-ma62x-worlds-smallest-lorawan-module/

Miromico AG has developed a LoRaWAN module with integrated Arm Cortex-M4 microcontroller, which was unveiled at Embedded World 2020. They claim it is the world’s smallest LoRaWAN module with integrated Arm Cortex-M4 microcontroller. Also referred to as the FMLR-6x-x-MA62x Module, Miromico module’s latest design is built around the Maxim MAX23625/26 microcontroller, which enables an Arm […]

Small, bright, high-contrast: FRAMOS offers new high-resolution OLED microdisplay for AR applications


https://www.electronics-lab.com/small-bright-high-contrast-framos-offers-new-high-resolution-oled-microdisplay-ar-applications/

FRAMOS, a global partner for vision technologies, now offers the new ECX335S microdisplay series from Sony Semiconductor Solutions. Featuring outstanding brightness, contrast and resolution plus a wide viewing angle, this solution is suited to the fast-growing market of augmented reality (AR) devices. These include head-mounted displays (HMDs), electronic viewfinders (VFs), and small monitors. The ECX335S […]

Self-Calibrating USB Voltage/Current Meter


https://www.electronics-lab.com/self-calibrating-usb-voltage-current-meter/

With a code size of 1KB on an ATtiny13A MCU, this tiny module measures voltages up to 22 volts and current up to 5 amps. This project is published by Tirdad Sadri Nejad. He writes: There are a lot of so-called “USB doctor” modules which are used for monitoring currents flowing through a USB connection. […]

750mA Constant Current LED Driver Arduino Nano Shield


https://www.electronics-lab.com/project/750ma-constant-current-led-driver-arduino-nano-shield/

This small constant current LED driver Nano shield has been designed using CAT4104 IC from ON semiconductor. Its 4 channel LED driver. The board has provision to mount 20 SMD 1206 LEDs. The LED can be RED, GREEN, BLUE and WHITE. Reduce the number of LED to 12 if White LEDs are used, as white […]

Free Elektor Article: Nixie Bargraph Thermometer


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Nixie tubes are always fascinating. Nowadays they are mostly used for clock displays, such as the project in the May/June 2016 issue of Elektor. The ‘Nixie’ bargraph tubes for analogue readout in the form of a column of light are less well known. Strictly speaking, they are not Nixie tubes because they do not display […]

Average and RMS voltage


https://www.electronics-lab.com/article/average-rms-voltage/

Introduction In the DC regime, only one definition of the value of a voltage is possible, this value is unambiguous and is determined by the difference between the reference value 0 V and the flat line figure of the DC signal. In the AC regime, however, it can lead to confusion to speak of only […]