About: Ibrar Ayyub

INTRODUCTION Using a solar panel or an array of panels without a controller that can perform Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) will often result in wasted power,which ultimately results in the need to install more panels for the same power requirement. For smaller/cheaper devices that have the battery connected directly to the panel, this will […]

Early Sitcoms Although television premiered in the early 1930s, it wasn’t until after World War Two that families began to switch over from radio. As television became popular, networks began searching for content. CBS hired a manager of program development, Worthington Minor, who sought out new ideas. Since short situational radio comedies had been popular […]

This is a Nordic Semiconductor system on chip with a 2.4 GHz radio and a Cortex-M0 processor. The hardware Bluetooth baseband provides raw BLE packets in a frame buffer. Nordic provides the S110 softdevice which implements a Bluetooth Low Energy stack. It also supports the proprietary protocol spoken by nRF24L01+ and nRF24LE1. Getting started Nordic […]

Internet radio has been around since the late 1990s. Traditional radio broadcasters have used the Internet to simulcast their programming. But, Internet radio is undergoing a revolution that will expand its reach from your desktop computer to access broadcasts anywhere, anytime­, and expand its programming from traditional broadcasters to individuals, organizations and government. Freedom of […]

Compact embedded module WizFi630 enables to connect any serial RS232 device to a TCP/IP network. However it´s not all. By supporting 3 Ethernet ports, it offers a wide variability to connect another devices to a Wi-Fi network, in various operation modes. Novelty from company Wiznet WizFi630 module provides, besides the RS232/ Wi-Fi interface, even many […]

Depending on how loosely you define VR, it might only require a computer with a monitor and a keyboard or a mouse. Most researchers working in VR say that true virtual environments give the user a sense of immersion. Since it’s easy to get distracted and lose your sense of immersion when looking at a […]

A switching regulator coupled with an LDO in the same package is a very versatile component. Touchstone, with its first analog power management product, has enhanced such a function with the capability to use supply voltages down to 0.6V while still being able to deliver a 75 mA output current. The device can be used in […]

We’re going to describe the warning signs of a hard drive failure, explain the internal parts of a hard drive and why they fail, and then we’ll go through a few steps you can take to recover your data. While the files can’t always be recovered, there’s a chance you might be able to retrieve […]

LED matrix displays provide flexibility to display text, graphics, animations, and video, and therefore, they have become a popular mean of displaying information these days. You can see them at gas stations displaying the gas prices, or in the public places displaying information, and alongside highways displaying advertisements on large dot matrix panels. This project […]

Vampire Power Causes In the average U.S. home, 25 percent of electricity use by home electronics occurs while the products are off [source: Pogue]. Is this power used for anything? Do electronics manufacturers hate the environment? Vampire power causes usually include one of the following: The gadget, such as a cell-phone AC adapter, constantly supplies […]