About: Bilal

Introduction The Pyxis camera is an open design for a flexible CCD controller for use in amateur astronomy. The camera was designed in view of the need for a more flexible platform for amateur CCD development. In particular, the controller provides a simple means for interfacing custom hardware (e.g. homemade telescope tracking and slew controllers) […]

Electronics retailer SparkFun Electronics has announced the launch of nine new value-added services covering board development, logistics, and training to all its customers. By Rich Pell @ eenewsembedded.com Over the last decade, says the company, it has tested and refined ideas for services by partnering with companies such as Digi-Key, RedHat, Sphero and u-blox, resulting in […]

Toradex, a leader in embedded computing, announces the release and availability of Dahlia, the latest addition to its carrier board offerings for the Verdin family of System on Modules (SoMs). Dahlia provides a simple and convenient development platform for the Verdin SoMs. The board provides easy access to the most common interfaces in a compact 120mm x 120mm form factor. […]

I. Introduction Today, the rising cost of energy and social trend of “going green” has put increasing pressure on commercial property owners to improve the efficiency of their investments. There is good reason for this, too. In the State of California, office buildings represent the single largest user of energy in the commercial sector (Efficiency […]

AAEON, a leading developer of edge computing solutions, introduces the latest from UP Board, the UP Xtreme Lite. UP Xtreme Lite brings the powerful 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processors on a platform that’s even easier for developers on a budget. The UP Xtreme Lite is designed to provide developers with a platform that’s flexible, powerful, and a […]

Analog Devices’ LTC7804 offers low Iq, small solution size, and PassThru™ operation for up to 99.9% efficiency ADI’s LTC7804 is a low IQ, 3 MHz PassThru operation capable synchronous boost DC/DC switching regulator controller that operates up to a 40 V input voltage. Its low quiescent current extends operating runtime in battery-powered systems. Spread spectrum frequency […]

Overview The Pololu USB AVR programmer [http://www.pololu.com/product/1300] is a programmer for Atmel’s AVRmicrocontrollers and controller boards based on these MCUs, such as Pololu Orangutan robot controllers[http://www.pololu.com/category/8/robot-controllers] and the 3pi robot [http://www.pololu.com/product/975]. The programmer emulates an STK500 on a virtual serial port, making it compatible with standard AVR programming software. Two additional features help with building […]

LED technology is opening the door to a variety of high-power-illumination applications. The circuit in Figure 1 can let you know when ac power is available. To drive a power LED from the ac line requires a converter or a similar arrangement. In this circuit, a passive dropper greatly simplifies the total design. You can […]

Technology is a very important part of everyone’s life in the modern day. For some people it is their entire job after all. Even for those who don’t fall into that category, there is a good chance that they use multiple pieces of technology every single day. Due to the developments in the digital world, […]

Ultra Low Power Sensor Board for Artificial Intelligence at the Edge. The ECM3532 AI Sensor board is an ultra-low power AI platform with sensors that can run many algorithms: sound classification, keyword spotting, activity classification, context awareness, defect detection and others. It showcases the capabilities of the ECM3532 Neural Sensor Processor built with Eta Compute’s patented self-timed […]