Vayyar 4D Imaging Radar

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https://www.electronics-lab.com/vayyar-4d-imaging-radar/

Recently, we have showed how radar technologies are useful for the automotive industry, when we dove into the Antenna-On-Package mmWave Sensor from Texas Instruments. As a refresher, more precise radars can be put into great use in the vehicles. Further enhanced seatbelt reminders, enhanced children detectors, better airbag deployment and intruder alert are some of […]

Power USB devices from a vehicle

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https://www.electronics-lab.com/power-usb-devices-from-a-vehicle/

Automotive accessories such as PNDs (portable navigation devices) usually receive their power or charge using a simple adapter that a user plugs into a cigarette lighter. Sometimes, however, you may want to power or charge two devices at once. The circuit in Figure 1 can handle that task. IC1 generates 5V from any 7.5 to […]

Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into An OBD2

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https://www.electronics-lab.com/turn-raspberry-pi-obd2/

Thomas Beck started a new project to develop a Raspberry Pi based OBD2, On-Board Diagnostic tester, to read vehicle data, trouble codes, and read monitor data. He had developed earlier a firmware for the elektor OBD Analyser NG, a handheld analyser with graphical display, ARM Cortex M3 controller and open source user interface. Since this […]