Puck.js – The Ground-Breaking Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon
https://www.electronics-lab.com/puck-js-bluetooth-low-energy-beacon/
Puck.js is a Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon which can be programmed and debugged wirelessly with JavaScript. It is both multi-functional and easy to use. This beacon uses a custom circuit board with the latest Nordic chip, Bluetooth LE, Infrared transmitter, NFC, magnetometer, temperature sensor, RGB LEDs, and much more. Unlike other beacons, Puck.js comes with […]
EEZ H24005, Two-Channel Programmable Power Supply
https://www.electronics-lab.com/eez-h24005-two-channel-programmable-psu/
Envox Experimental Zone (EEZ) is an open hardware and open source development website, that creates and shares various open source hardware and software projects using as much as possible open-source tools and technologies. One of their projects is the programmable bench power supply ‘EEZ H24005’. The goal is to make a reliable, modular, open and […]
MalDuino, The Open Source BadUSB
https://www.electronics-lab.com/malduino-open-source-badusb/
Firmware is a type of software that provides control, monitoring and data manipulation of engineered products and systems. A USB device firmware hack called BadUSB was presented at Black Hat USA 2014 conference, demonstrating how a USB flash drive microcontroller can be reprogrammed to spoof various other device types in order to take control of […]
MyPart, An Open Source Portable Air Particle Counter
https://www.electronics-lab.com/mypart-open-source-air-particle-counter/
One of the most harmful airborne pollutants with respect to human health is particulate matter. Air particle counters are used to determine the air quality by counting and sizing the number of particles in the air. This information is useful in determining the amount of particles inside a building or in the ambient air. It […]
ZeroPhone – a Raspberry Pi smartphone
https://www.electronics-lab.com/zerophone-raspberry-pi-smartphone/
Arsenijs build a Pi-powered open-source mobile phone (that you can assemble for 50$ in parts). Currently, it costs about 50$ in parts, and all the parts are available on eBay. No BGA or other difficultly solderable ICs are used (with the obvious exception of Pi Zero). User interface is written using Python, and there’s a […]
Open Source Meets Hardware: Open Processor Core
https://www.electronics-lab.com/open-source-meets-hardware-open-processor-core/
SiFive, the first fabless provider of customized, open-source-enabled semiconductors, had recently announced the availability of its Freedom Everywhere 310 (FE310) system on a chip (SoC), the industry’s first commercially available SoC based on the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture. The Freedom E310 (FE310) is the first member of the Freedom Everywhere family of […]
HiFive1, An Open-Source RISC-V Development Kit
https://www.electronics-lab.com/hifive1-open-source-risc-v-development-kit/
By bringing the power of open-source and agile hardware design to the semiconductor industry, SiFive aims to increase the performance and efficiency of customized silicon chips with lower cost. The Freedom E310 (FE310) is the first member of the Freedom Everywhere SoCs family, a series of customizable microcontroller SoC platforms, designed based on SiFive’s E31 […]
Chronos 1.4, Everyone’s High-Speed Camera
https://www.electronics-lab.com/chronos-1-4-everyones-high-speed-camera/
The Canadian Kron Technologies, led by its founder David Kronstein, has just launched a brand-new camera: Chronos. Chronos 1.4 is a purpose-designed, professional high-speed camera. It enables you to capture stunning high-speed video at up to 1280×1024 resolution thanks to its 1.4 gigapixel-per-second throughput. Its frame rate ranges from 1,057fps at full resolution, up to […]
Badgerboard, LoRa Future IoT Development Board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/badgerboard-lora-future-iot-development-board/
The LoRa Alliance™ is an open, non-profit association of members who believe that the Internet of Things era is now, its LoRaWAN is a Low Power Wide Area Network with features that support low-cost, mobile, and secure bidirectional communication for Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M), smart city, and industrial applications. LoRaWAN is optimized for […]
FPGA-Based Arduino Shield
https://www.electronics-lab.com/fpga-based-arduino-shield/
Inspired by an interest in spreading the concepts of FPGA, and because its ability to overcome most of other platforms limitations such as IO, memory, and peripherals, technolomaniac had worked on developing the first Arduino FPGA shield. A Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a […]