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 […]
A Multi-Use Mini Sensor Platform
https://www.electronics-lab.com/multi-use-mini-sensor-platform/
While developing a smart hardware project, such as control and automation systems, you will almost need to use different types of sensors for collecting and gathering necessary data. LastSamurai had designed a platform that aims to simplify the use of digital and analogue sensors. The platform was developed based on MySensors Hardware, hardware components that […]
A $20 Heart Rate Module For Health-Tech Projects
https://www.electronics-lab.com/20-heart-rate-module-health-tech-projects/
Heart rate monitoring is a common procedure for most of health related projects. Therefore, producing sensors modules and circuit boards for such tasks will facilitate and push forward the development of new health-tech projects. Maxim Integrated, an analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits manufacturer, has developed a new module for measuring heart rate and pulse oximetry. […]
OSHW Logo Generator
https://www.electronics-lab.com/oshw-logo-generator/
Here is a proposal for a new OSHW logo which uses release symbols to know exactly what the license covers. The KEYS used are: S = Schematic P = PCB F = Firmware and/or software M = Mechanical CAD files D = Design Documentation B = Bill Of Materials C = License used allows for […]