This board is designed to safely drive a 3.3V microcontroller and connected accoutrements. It supports primary and backup power sources and provides numerous over and under voltage safeguards. The microcontroller here is a bare-bone, no-frills A... Read more
ESP8266 LED Matrix Clock Simple LED matrix Clock based on the popular ESP8266 with Real Time Clock module and time synchronization over Wi-Fi from an NTP server. Step 1: Parts and Tools First let’s see what we need. Parts: 6 x 8... Read more
Seco Embedded Creators have launched the i.MX8M based Q7-C25 and i.MX8Quad based Q7-C26. Both can run Linux and Android, and are available in 0 to 60°C and -40 to 85°C models. The 5V modules have many similar features, but the Q7-C26 based on th... Read more
Create your own rc controlled led-strip for individual room illumination! Most rgb-led-strips are controlled by an infrared remote control. To turn it off or on or change the color, you have to stay in front of the receiver. This is boring and n... Read more
The ARM Cortex family of 32-bit RISC-based processors has emerged as the leading processor core in embedded designs due to its efficient architecture, robust and scalable instruction set, and extensive base of development tools and software. Cor... Read more
I have spent a lot of time over the years prototyping electronic circuits and the amount of resistors that have ended up in the trash because they are so cheap you don’t bother to keep them tidy or organized once you take them out of their organ... Read more
DFI or Diamond Flower Inc., a Taiwan based motherboard manufacturer is preparing to release an Ubuntu friendly 3.5-inch SBC “AL551” with an Apollo Lake SoC. It’s going to support Ubuntu 16.04, as well as Windows 10. We have already talked about... Read more
Atmel ATTINY24 microcontroller based automatic battery charger circuit can charge 12V batteries with different power on (1A…10A current setting range of the charging current with limitation 10Ah, 20Ah, 30Ah, 40Ah, 50Ah, 60Ah, 70Ah, 80Ah,… Electr... Read more
Who does not want to have stunning lamp which can display animations and sync with other lamps in the house? Right, nobody. That’s why I made a custom RGB lamp. The lamp consists of 256 individually addressable LED’s and all... Read more
Working with microcontrollers means managing GPIO pins at some point. Many configurations have been developed for modern microcontrollers which can lead to some “fancy” terms that may confuse programmers. Its important to understand all of this... Read more
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