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Texas Instruments has announced the winners of the BeagleBone Cape Plug-in Board Design Contest , announced back in November. The three winning submissions are: Replicape for 3D printers; Interacto providing a foundation for building robots and flying drones; and Geiger Cape, which measures radiation counts.

Before Quartz The wind-up watch is an amazing piece of technology itself! It is part of a continuous research-and-development effort that started at the end of the 14th Century. Over the years, different innovations made wind-up watches smaller, thinner, more reliable, more accurate and even self-winding! The components that you find in today’s wind-up watches […]

The following is important because with flexible organic photovoltaic cells, we are nearing a new era of development for practical solar-based solutions can be implemented with clever usage of these devices. Efficiency needs to be higher, but technology is progressing in the right direction and a breakthrough is inevitable. Heliatek announced a record breaking 12.0% […]

DIN rail terminal blocks using the CAGE CLAMP®S spring clamp bring a simpler installation even without tools and up to 30% saving of space. Since 1977, when company Wago launched screwless terminal blocks on the market, have the terminal blocks using this system earned a high popularity. During many years, the Cage Clamp® system proved […]

Most of AVR microcontrollers have Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) integrated in to chip. Such solution makes embedded designers life much easier when creating projects and programming them. With no need external ADC PCB takes less space, easier to create programs – it saves time and money. As an example lets take Atmega8 microcontroller which […]

The Tape There are two parts to any audio magnetic recording system: the recorder itself (which also acts as the playback device) and the tape it uses as the storage medium. The tape itself is actually very simple. It consists of a thin plastic base material, and bonded to this base is a coating of […]

What is plasma? The central element in a fluorescent light is a plasma, a gas made up of free-flowing ions (electrically charged atoms) and electrons (negatively charged particles). Under normal conditions, a gas is mainly made up of uncharged particles. That is, the individual gas atoms include equal numbers of protons (positively charged particles in […]

EA DIP series displays from company Electronic Assembly provide an uncommon possibility to choose a graphic or a character display without a change of your device´s hardware. A quality display with a high contrast and an automatic temperature compensation, easy mounting by soldering of pins into a PCB, a display maximally utilizing the module size […]

The difference between insignificant noise and significant noise is the degree to which the noise affects the operation of the circuit in question. For example, a switching power supply has a significant amount of output voltage ripple at 3 MHz. If the circuit it is powering has a bandwidth of only a few hertz, such […]

Sometimes in embedded design you may want to go wireless. Might be you will want to log various readings of remotely placed sensors, or simply build a remote control for robot or car alarm system. Radio communications between two AVR microcontrollers can be easy when specialized modules are used. Lets try to run very well […]