TinyWiFi 5G – A Clone of NanoPi NEO Air with 5GHz Wifi
https://www.electronics-lab.com/tinywifi-5g-clone-nanopi-neo-air-5ghz-wifi/
Back in 2016, FriendlyARM launched the NanoPi NEO Air, an ARM-based board that featured Allwinner H3 processor, 2.5GHz WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, a camera DVP interface, and a ton of GPIO pins. The board was relatively powerful for it’s Nano size and it now costs around $28. Fast Forward to 2019, we have a new board called […]
Papyr – a Nordic nRF52840 e-paper display board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/papyr-nordic-nrf52840-e-paper-display-board/
Papyr is a Nordic nRF52840 epaper display that can be used for various low power wireless applications. It supports both BLE (BLE5, BLE Mesh) and 802.15.4 (Thread, Zigbee). The accompanying Android App will allow you to draw a shape or select and image and send it directly to the e-paper display. With the exploding number […]
ESP32 CoinCell board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/esp32-coincell-board/
This is an ESP32 Pico D4 project with an accelerometer and 0.69″ oled display powered by a rechargeable LIR2450 coin cell. Source files are available on github.com. Mike Rankin writes: I was not made for any specific purpose and was a design challenge to try and made it as small as possible. It can be powered […]
NOVASOM’s U5 SBC features NXP iMX6 ULL CPU
https://www.electronics-lab.com/novasoms-u5-sbc-features-nxp-imx6-ull-cpu/
SBC-U5A & SBC-U5C – Credit Card sized SBC (i.MX6 ULL) Novasom Industries’ U5 is a small board, approximately credit card size, that consumes little power, but that can do much more than what you think thanks to the ARM core A7 and the optimization of our SW systems. Arrives with all necessary to guarantee an […]
AAEON BOXER-8120 with Jetson TX2: Putting AI Anywhere You Need It
https://www.electronics-lab.com/aaeon-boxer-8120-jetson-tx2-putting-ai-anywhere-need/
AAEON, an award-winning developer of advanced AI hardware, releases the BOXER-8120AI, a powerful and compact controller for edge AI applications. Powered by the NVIDIA Jetson TX2, the BOXER-8120AI supports 256 CUDA cores and a range of AI frameworks including TensorFlow, Caffe2, and MXNet. The device is able to process images, video, and speech in real […]
UV Exposure Box Project with timer
https://www.electronics-lab.com/uv-exposure-box-project-timer/
This is a nice build of a small UV exposure box using UV LEDs and Arduino by Elias Zacarias. The details are available on Part 1 and Part 2 posts of his blog.damnsoft.org. Design files are open source and uploaded to github.com. The boards are designed on KiCAD and code is for Arduino.
Amphenol Advanced Sensors SM-UART-04L Laser Dust Sensor
https://www.electronics-lab.com/amphenol-advanced-sensors-sm-uart-04l-laser-dust-sensor/
Amphenol Advanced Sensors SM-UART-04L Laser Dust Sensor offers a 5.5V rating, a 100mA current consumption, and a 3.3V output performance. This sensor detects dust particle concentrations in the air by using an optical sensing method. The SM-UART-04L sensor finds small particles such as cigarette smoke and can distinguish small particles, such as smoke from large […]
Insulin Injection Monitor Dosage and Wirelessly Transmits Data to Smartphone
https://www.electronics-lab.com/insulin-injection-monitor-dosage-wirelessly-transmits-data-smartphone/
DIABNEXT’s ‘CLIPSULIN’ device attaches to insulin pens and employs Nordic’s nRF52832 SoC to wirelessly send recorded insulin injection data via Bluetooth LE or NFC. Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Taiwan-based DIABNEXT, a healthcare services company, has selected Nordic’s nRF52832 System-on-Chip (SoC) to provide the Bluetooth® Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) wireless connectivity for its ‘CLIPSULIN’ insulin […]
Researchers develop thin sensor to detect magnetic fields down to 200nT
https://www.electronics-lab.com/researchers-develop-thin-sensor-detect-magnetic-fields-200nt/
A team of researchers from Germany and Argentina have devised an ultra-thin planar Hall effect (PHE) sensor capable of detecting very faint magnetic fields even when flexed or wrapped around a wire. by Julien Happich @ www.eenewsembedded.com In a paper titled “Highly compliant planar Hall effect sensor with sub 200 nT sensitivity” published in Nature’s npj […]
Sipeed MAix: AI at the edge
https://www.electronics-lab.com/sipeed-maix-ai-edge/
Sipeed MAix: AI at the edge AI is pervasive today, from consumer to enterprise applications. With the explosive growth of connected devices, combined with a demand for privacy/confidentiality, low latency and bandwidth constraints, AI models trained in the cloud increasingly need to be run at the edge. MAIX is Sipeed’s purpose-built module designed to run […]