Remote Mail Notifier (and GPS Tracker)
https://www.electronics-lab.com/remote-mail-notifier-gps-tracker/
Zak Kemble published another great project. This time it’s a Remote Mail Notifier with GPS functionality. He writes: At the moment I’m living in a block of flats and my mailbox is in a central lobby area. I’m often receiving small surprise packets from China and never know when the postman has been, usually between […]
NextPCB.com Service Review
https://www.electronics-lab.com/nextpcb-service-review/
Printed Circuit boards are an important part of the development of any electronic product. They provide easy, neat, and repeatable ways of connecting components together. Thus, ensuring quality from their design to production is so critical that, failure at any point in the process could lead to a lot of money going to waste and […]
TPS7A24 – 8V tolerant, 2-µA IQ, 200-mA low-dropout (LDO) linear voltage regulator
https://www.electronics-lab.com/tps7a24-8v-tolerant-2-%c2%b5a-iq-200-ma-low-dropout-ldo-linear-voltage-regulator/
The TPS7A24 low-dropout (LDO) linear voltage regulator supports a 2.4-V to 18-V input voltage range with ultra-low quiescent current (IQ). These features help modern appliances meet increasingly stringent energy requirements and help extend battery life in portable-power solutions. The TPS7A24 is available in both fixed and adjustable versions. The fixed-voltage version eliminates external resistors and […]
Google Announces New Coral products for 2020
https://www.electronics-lab.com/google-announces-new-coral-products-2020/
Being one of the frontrunners in AI development and having an understanding of the potentials and opportunities in Edge Computing and Local AI, Google started its sojourn into the provision of hardware components and companion software tools for the development of Local AI products last year, with the launch of the Coral Platform. The platform […]
Meet the $795 USB 4.0 Switch for USB4 Product Development
https://www.electronics-lab.com/meet-795-usb-4-0-switch-usb4-product-development/
A few months back, the specification for the USB 4.0 was released by the USB implementers forum with a promise of 2x the speed of USB3.2; 40GB/s and while there currently no devices in the market based on it, its features are definitely things device manufacturers will be leveraging on in a few months to […]
Building an extremely high powered 1-12V lab power supply on the cheap
https://www.electronics-lab.com/building-extremely-high-powered-1-12v-lab-power-supply-cheap/
Matthew Millman has published a new project: For a number of years now I’ve had a couple of high powered switching power supply units made by Power-One. They’re typically found in I.T. equipment and provide a single output rail of either 12 V or 48 V with a very high current rating. The other cool […]
Seeeduino Crypto Board features ATmega4809 & ECC608
https://www.electronics-lab.com/seeeduino-crypto-board-features-atmega4809-ecc608/
As the name indicates, this board is born for encryption. Seeeduino Crypto is based on high-performance ATmega4809 and featured with Microchip ECC608 crypto chip. With the help of the ECC608 crypto chip, you can experience encrypted communication, such as I2C encryption. Along with the encryption, Seeeduino Crypto is functionally the same as the Seeeduino V4.2 / Arduino Uno Rev3. It has wealth interface resources, including 6 analog […]
Torex & NGK Partner on Power Module Reference Design for IoT Devices
https://www.electronics-lab.com/torex-ngk-partner-power-module-reference-design-iot-devices/
Torex Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and NGK Corporation will exhibit a compact power module sample that can be processed through high-temperature surface mount with using Torex power management ICs and NGK EnerCera series batteries at CES 2020 (January 7th to 10th, 2020 at Las Vegas in the USA). [via] By combining the characteristics of NGK EnerCera […]
300W GaN-Based Ultra-High Power Density AC-DC Adapter Reference Design
https://www.electronics-lab.com/300w-gan-based-ultra-high-power-density-ac-dc-adapter-reference-design/
GaN Systems and ON Semiconductor announced the availability of the NCP13992UHD300WGEVB, the world’s highest power density 300W ac-dc adapter reference design using GaN Systems’ 650V, 15A gallium-nitride (GaN) E-HEMTs and multiple ON Semiconductor controller and driver ICs, including the NCP51820, NCP13992, NCP1616, and NCP4306. This complete system reference design is a highly versatile and low […]
The i.MX RT Family Makes for Some Feature Filled Feathers!
https://www.electronics-lab.com/mx-rt-family-makes-feature-filled-feathers/
Thanks to a host of useful feather wings and shields, the Adafruit Feather form factor is becoming a very popular one with a host of other boards now based on it, offering not only the shape and size but also pin compatibility to allow the use feather addons like the FeatherWings and shields. In line […]