Review: pi-top DIY laptop for your Raspberry Pi


https://www.electronics-lab.com/review-pi-top-diy-laptop-raspberry-pi/

The pi-top converts your Raspberry Pi into a complete RPi notebook. by René Bohne @ elektormagazine.com It comes as a nice kit that is very easy to assemble thanks to a great construction manual. We created a video of the assembly. If you have any questions, feel free to leave comment on Youtube or below this […]

Arduino Tutorial: Color OLED SSD1331 display with Arduino Uno


https://www.electronics-lab.com/arduino-tutorial-color-oled-ssd1331-display-arduino-uno/

In this video educ8s.tv shows us how to use the Color OLED display with the SSD1331 driver with Arduino. It’s very easy! A few weeks ago, I discovered this promising new display on Banggood.com and I thought that it might be useful in some of our projects so I bought it right away. It is […]

8 Channel Relay Board with onboard 5V regulator


https://www.electronics-lab.com/project/8-channel-relay-board-onboard-5v-regulator/

This is a general purpose relay board accepting 8 inputs to drive 8 relays providing control requirement in your project. This board can also be used as an add-on card for the various Development board that we provide. Features Robust Design using NPN transistor to drive each relay Relay On Indicator LED for each of […]

Omniblox – Eagle BRD 3D viewer update


https://www.electronics-lab.com/omniblox-eagle-brd-3d-viewer-update/

Omniblox, the Eagle .brd 3D viewer we previously covered here has released a new version that uses fonts and corrects rotation issues in silk screens. Code and instructions available on github. Omniblox – Eagle BRD 3D viewer update – [Link]

Building A Quadcopter For Newbie


https://www.electronics-lab.com/building-quadcopter-newbie/

Drones are one of the rising technologies in the world and it became very popular that we see it in news on places that have armed conflicts, aerial photography like GoPro drones and even for customer care like the Prime Air delivery system from Amazon which is designed to get packages to customers using small […]

Introduction to I²C and SPI protocols


https://www.electronics-lab.com/introduction-i%c2%b2c-spi-protocols/

byteparadigm.com has a nice introductory article on I2C and SPI protocols: Today, at the low end of the communication protocols, we find I²C (for ‘Inter-Integrated Circuit’, protocol) and SPI (for ‘Serial Peripheral Interface’). Both protocols are well-suited for communications between integrated circuits, for slow communication with on-board peripherals. At the roots of these two popular […]

Benefits of Using A Buck-Boost Converter As A Pre-regulator For LDOs


https://www.electronics-lab.com/benefits-using-buck-boost-converter-pre-regulator-ldos/

Intersil published a new white paper titled “Preventing Subsystem Brownouts in Mobile Devices“. This white paper demonstrates the benefit of using a buck-boost converter as a pre-regulator, which leads to better overall system efficiency and enhanced battery life. Systems powered from a battery may have voltage brownout when they are subjected to a burst current […]

Intersil’s Switching Regulators Adopted in Huawei P9 Smartphone


https://www.electronics-lab.com/intersils-switching-regulators-adopted-huawei-p9-smartphone/

Intersil announces the adoption of its latest family of buck-boost switching regulators in one of Huawei’s newest smartphone. The ISL91110 buck-boost switching regulator powers the Huawei P9 smartphone’s key system peripherals providing excellent efficiency and performance. [via] Intersil’s ISL91110 buck-boost switching regulator supplies power to key system peripherals in the P9 dual-camera smartphone, using a proprietary, fully […]

Adding ADC to Microcontrollers without ADC


https://www.electronics-lab.com/adding-adc-to-microcontrollers-without-adc/

Scott @ swharden.com show us how to interface an analog signal to a microcontroller that doesn’t have an ADC. I recently had the need to carefully measure a voltage with a microcontroller which lacks an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and I hacked together a quick and dirty method to do just this using a comparator, two […]

Analog front-end IC linearizes sensors


https://www.electronics-lab.com/analog-front-end-ic-linearizes-sensors/

Susan Nordyk @ edn.com discuss about LTC2986 which is able to digitize and linearize a combination of temperature sensors in Celsius or Fahrenheit degrees. A 10-channel temperature-measurement IC, the LTC2986 from Linear Technology directly digitizes any combination of thermocouples, RTDs, thermistors, and external diodes with 0.1°C accuracy and 0.001°C resolution. The analog front-end device combines […]