About: Bilal

My wife and I recently went on a winter getaway and left our two small children behind (praise the lord). In the past when we have gone on trips we have discussed where we are going and pointed it out on a map and sometimes we have drawn where we would be flying into, driving, […]

Due to power consumption (amongst other factors), IoT solutions typically prefer to rely on fancy web-based dashboards and mobile apps for user interactions rather than the use of displays, but scenarios (like industrial IoT applications) arises where a display is required to drive real-time interaction with users. To provide a solution suitable for this kind […]

Interest in SBCs is growing and even though their capabilities have improved over the years, there is a yearning for more, from processing power to IOs. To add to their already impressive line of SBC offerings, EEPD (Electronic Equipment Production and Distribution) recently announced the release of two SBCs; the Profive NUCV and the Profive NUCR which are based […]

In my previous Instructable I showed how simple commands could be used to turn on a microprocessor output and light an LED. https://www.instructables.com/id/Lets-Program-a-PIC… I should stress I am not connected with Picaxe and these projects are ones I used in School to teach programming to school kids. In the last instructable the circuit was built […]

STMicroelectronics TCPP01-M12 USB Type-C Port Protection is a single-chip solution that facilitates the migration from USB legacy connectors type-A or type-B to USB Type-C connectors. This Type-C port protection features overvoltage protection on VBUS, adjustable up to 22 V, with external N-channel MOSFET. The TCPP01-M12 USB port protection includes an integrated charge pump to control the gate of […]

iWave Systems introduces a powerful SOM (System on Module) with six heterogeneous ARM processor cores (four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 and two 32-bit ARM Cortex-R5 Cores), an ARM Mali-400 MP2 GPU, and a big chunk of the latest-generation UltraScale+ programmable logic cells scaling all the way to 1 million. Designed a ZU19EG / ZU17EG / ZU11EG Zynq […]

I’ve always thought it would be nice to have a car with a parking sensor. I don’t want to spend that kind of money until I pay off my student loans. However I do have the materials to make one myself thanks to a class I took on microcontrollers. Part of my motivation is that […]

Tektronix brings many of the key features loved in classic curve tracers to Keithley SourceMeter source measure units (SMUs) with the release of its Keithley I-V Tracer software. Tektronix introduced the industry’s first curve tracer in 1955 to display characteristic curves for vacuum tubes. This was followed by models for testing transistors, diodes, and other solid-state […]

Infineon Technologies AG introduced the new IGBT7 chip for its well-known Easy housing platform in March. Now it is taking the state-of-the-art TRENCHSTOP™ IGBT7 to the arena of medium power: in the standard industry package EconoDUAL™ 3. In this chip technology, the 1200 V module provides a leading nominal current of 900 A enabling a […]

The circuit what you are about to see is a smart battery charger based on ATMEGA8A with auto cut off.Different parameters are shown via a LCD during different charge states.Also the circuit will make sound via a buzzer upon charge completion. I built the charger basically to charge my 11.1v/4400maH Li-ion battery.The firmware is basically […]