EFCO Announces Industry’s First Media Player with Advanced Security


https://www.electronics-lab.com/efco-announces-industrys-first-media-player-advanced-security/

EFCO, a world-class supplier of industrial computers and gaming and EMS solutions, today announced VideoStar100, the first media player integrated with SecuBoot™ to provide the most advanced security available for digital displays. Equipped with an AMD industrial-grade Ryzen™ Embedded V1000/R1000 APU, VideoStar100 provides the performance to support three (R1000) or four independent 4k displays and […]

STM32L4+ Discovery kit IoT node, low-power wireless, BLE, NFC, WiFi


https://www.electronics-lab.com/stm32l4-discovery-kit-iot-node-low-power-wireless-ble-nfc-wifi/

With the B-L4S5I-IOT01A Discovery kit for IoT node, users develop applications with a direct connection to cloud servers. The Discovery kit enables a wide diversity of applications by exploiting low-power communication, multiway sensing and Arm® Cortex®-M4 core-based STM32L4+ Series features. The support for ARDUINO® Uno V3 and Pmod™ connectivity provides unlimited expansion capabilities with a large […]

Connected Secure and Wearable Electrocardiogram (ECG) Design


https://www.electronics-lab.com/connected-secure-wearable-electrocardiogram-ecg-design/

Microchip’s innovative design for portable and accurate ECG heart monitoring applications The electrocardiogram or ECG machine design from Microchip Technology is used to monitor and record the electrical activity of the heart. This design features the SAML22, a high-performance, 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M0+ microcontroller with ultra-low-power technology, the BTLC1000 Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) 4.1 module, the ECC508A […]

Hall-effect sensor features ratiometric analog output


https://www.electronics-lab.com/hall-effect-sensor-features-ratiometric-analog-output/

TDK-Micronas‘ HAL1880 is an entry-level Hall-effect sensor with ratiometric analog output, offering the best compromise related to sensor function vs system cost. It includes programmable clamping to extend error signaling capability and diagnostics associated with the state of various internal circuits (magnetic signal out of range). A one-pin programming interface enables the simultaneous programming of […]

Compact NanoPi Neo3 SBC from FriendlyElec runs Linux on RK3328 and sells for $20+


https://www.electronics-lab.com/compact-nanopi-neo3-sbc-friendlyelec-runs-linux-rk3328-sells-20/

The recently launched NanoPi Neo3 from FriendlyElec is a single board computer that runs Linux on a quad-core Cortex-A53 Rockchip RK3328 and has 1 or 2GB DDR4, Gigabit Ethernet port, USB 3.0, and a wide operating range of -20 0C to 70 0C. Like most of the earlier released Neo models from FriendlyElec, the new […]

Meet the IoT-Ready, Esp32-based Maia Development Board


https://www.electronics-lab.com/meet-iot-ready-esp32-based-maia-development-board/

So far so good, only a few boards have been able to take advantage of the extra USB OTG interface offered by the ESP32-S2 processor released back in 2019, and one of them is the new Maia development board from Stetel Things. As a quick reminder, the ESP32-S2 was unveiled with quite some incredible features […]

Current Dividers


https://www.electronics-lab.com/article/current-dividers/

Introduction We have seen in the previous tutorial about Voltage Dividers and that the voltage division process is made possible by associating the same components in a series configuration. In this article, we will focus on the current division process performed by Current Dividers which are parallel associations of components. The most common type of […]

Arduino Adds Four New Boards To The Ardunino Nano Family


https://www.electronics-lab.com/arduino-adds-four-new-boards-ardunino-nano-family/

Arduino has announced a new set of boards to the Ardunino Nano family. The boards were on display last weekend at Maker Faire Bay Area in San Mateo at the Arduino booth. Banzi also delivered a talk on “The State of Arduino” at the Faire’s Center Stage. The new family of Arduino Nano boards includes: the Arduino Nano […]

Build Your Own Scalar Network Analyzer to Test Frequency Response of Filters and Networks


https://www.electronics-lab.com/build-scalar-network-analyzer-test-frequency-response-filters-networks/

Radio Frequency Network Analyzers is one important tool required for testing the frequency response of filters and networks, but as we all know, buying a regular RF test equipment can be quite the expenditure. This was why hobbyist Stephen Merrifield, who after seeing the increased need for more RF testing capabilities as a result of […]

Small edge AI board monitors assets


https://www.electronics-lab.com/small-edge-ai-board-monitors-assets/

Industrial automation company Flicq has introduced its 2nd generation Edge AI smart sensor board, for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with the launch of SmartEdge. Claiming to be the world’s smallest Edge AI smart sensor board, SmartEdge delivers plug-and-play asset monitoring capability that companies can deploy anywhere. Industries are moving increasingly toward remote monitoring of […]