About: Ibrar Ayyub

American Semiconductor, a leader in flexible integrated circuits and flexible hybrid systems, has announced the FleX-MCU product family. The FleX-MCU is the world’s first physically flexible microcontroller fabricated using the FleX Silicon-on-Polymer process. The FleX-MCU is an 8-bit RISC microcontroller with 8KB embedded RAM operating at up to 20MHz with a 1.2V core and 2.5V […]

Creating the Picture The heart of an SED-TV is the millions of miniature CRTs, called surface-conduction electron emitters (SCEs). An SCE is microscopic, and it consists of a layer of carbon with a gap down the center. One half of the carbon layer connects to a negative electrode, and the other connects to a positive […]

High-quality enclosures from company New Age Enclosures can be assembled by one click. If we´ll carefully design a device in a way to be as small as possible, it´s natural, that we don´t want to make it bigger by a uselessly bulky enclosure. For this purpose we keep in offer enclosures for small USB or […]

What’s Your Type? The television is one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century. For the whole picture, read How Television Works. In the past few years, there have been tremendous leaps in TV technology. Twenty years ago, TV shoppers had very few choices. These days, several TV technologies are competing with one […]

It has been 7 years (!) since I posted my PIC18F2550 KS0108 Graphical LCD Oscilloscope code and schematics. I have long since taken the circuit apart, sold my PIC microcontrollers, and moved on in my life (as one can surmise from my most recent posts detailing my graduate and postdoctoral work). However, I still get […]

The TV Show Pitch Now you have a meeting with a network executive. Maybe an actor pal set it up for you, or you hired a fantastic agent who got you a few minutes with someone at CBS. Or you got in to Comedy Central and now you’re ready to meet with them in person […]

The Digistump/Digispark team is back, bringing the experience gained producing over 40,000 and shipping over 25,000 Digisparks in less than two months!  Announcing the DigiX – the ultimate sequel project to the Digispark. The DigiX has a 32-bit 84 MHz MCU, embedded low power Wi-Fi (b/g/n) and mesh networking, 99 usable i/o pins, audio output, USB […]

The Business As we saw in the last section, the Phantom does not have a CD-ROM drive like a standard PC or game console, and it doesn’t have normal access to the Internet either — it works through a specialized VPN. In other words, the only way to get a game into the machine is […]

it’s small but packed with features. The GSM alarmwe present today, sports a PIR motion sensor, can be battery operated and it’s capable to communicate via GSM. It can transmit alarm conditions and receive commands from remote. It’s also capable to indicate problems such as is insufficient voltage supply or tampering. It’s not so conventional […]

Canceled Video Games A definitive list of all the games that companies have canceled over the years could fill a book. Here are just a few video games that gamers never had the chance to play: “Journey to the Centre of Arcanum” was meant to be a sequel to the computer role-playing game (CRPG) “Arcanum” […]