About: Ibrar Ayyub

Testing probes, clips, cables and other products of company SKS enable simpler and more effective testing and development. Probably, you´ve already faced the situation, when it was necessary to measure several signals at once, or for example to have a voltmeter connected in some point of a device and to control another equipment at the […]

If you have read the HowStuffWorks article How CDs Work, you know that the basic idea behind data storage on a normal CD is simple. The surface of the CD contains one long spiral track of data. Along the track, there are flat reflective areas and non-reflective bumps. A flat reflective area represents a binary […]

Plymouth, England – 8th April 2013 – Plessey announced that samples of its Gallium Nitride (GaN) on silicon LED products (p/n PLW111010) are available today. These entry level products are the first LEDs manufactured on 6-inch GaN on silicon substrates to be commercially available anywhere in the world. Plessey is using its proprietary large diameter […]

Today, CDs are still the preferred medium on most cars, but that’s beginning to change. Many models offer inputs for MP3 players, allowing the driver to play their iPods in their cars. Some cars even have internal hard drives so owners can upload their own music digitally, turning the car into a sort of iPod […]

Of the hundreds of projects I’ve shared over the years, none has attracted more attention than my DIY ECG machine on the cheap posted almost 4 years ago. This weekend I re-visited the project and made something I’m excited to share!  The original project was immensely popular, my first featured article on Hack-A-Day, and today “ECG” […]

These are just a few examples of devices that are part of the growing phenomenon known as e-waste. E-waste is the term used to describe discarded electronics and electrical products. In the past few decades, the world’s demand for gadgetry has gone through the roof and, inevitably, more waste has started to accumulate. As the […]

If you´re looking for a reliable and price affordable connectors for memory cards and SIM cards, we have a solution for you. No doubt, that data storage media and SIM cards need a reliable contact. A contact which won´t oxidize either after a long term usage in an outdoor environment. This fact is well known […]

With the new information, Navteq updates its digital map collection, and then sells it to companies like Garmin, which produce the GPS devicesthat many of us have come to rely on for getting around. Garmin, in turn, codes the information so that it’s compatible with specific devices and offers it to customers in the form […]

Sony designed the PlayStation 3 to be more than just a video game console. It supports all kinds of digital entertainment and is basically a home-entertainment computer. This computer sports a specially designed CPU called the Cell processor. Sony, Toshiba and IBM worked together to develop the Cell processor. It’s their answer to the growing […]

If you have a Caller ID box attached to your phone, then an amazing thing happens every time your phone rings — the number (and sometimes even the name) of the calling party appears on the display right after the first ring! It turns out that the process of making the caller ID display possible […]