A multimeter is a brilliant instrument that combines several functions – typically, measuring voltage, current and resistance. Although both digital and analogue multimeters exist, the vast majority in use today are digital and hence this guide will use images of a digital multimeter, or DMM, to illustrate various steps. Getting Started With a Multimeter To […]
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I received my Mini 7-Segment Clock PCBs. I’m pretty excited to put one together. I think it’s going to look pretty cool, being so tiny. I’ve always liked 7-segment displays. With the popularity of LCDs, TFTs, and touch screens, etc, you’d think these displays would be obsolete by now. If you keep an eye out
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Grenoble, France and Cambridge, UK – 10th June 2013 – ISORG and Plastic Logic have co-developed the first conformable organic image sensor on plastic, with the potential to revolutionise weight/power trade-offs and optical design parameters for any systems with a digital imaging element. First mechanical samples will be publicly unveiled at LOPE-C 2013 (ISORG /
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FTDI chip provides really excellent USB chips, that will handle all the USB communication for you with really excellent bandwidth performance. FTDI provide an exhaustive documentation for their cross platform driver. In contrast with the VCP (Virtual Com Port) mode, the D2XX driver allows direct access to the USB device ports in a completely transparent
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A light meter is a device that measures the intensity of light. It finds applications in schools, hospitals, production areas, passageways and more to measure and maintain proper lighting levels. It is often used by photographers to determine the proper exposure for a photograph. Today we are going to build a simple light meter using
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Displays from 4D Systems can be used even if you don´t have experience with programming of graphic displays. Let´s look at how … No doubt, that a graphic display significantly improves a user interface of practically every product. Maybe a little less obvious is the fact, that already a relatively small display with a touch
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What is babuino? Babuino allows you to control your digital devices with your smatphone, in an easy way. You just have to connect your babuino to a USB port of the device you want to control, and start our program on your phone Connecting with babuino is trouble free and it does not need any
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The bottom line: We’re looking for a large enough market to justify manufacturing setup and regulatory costs where consumers would be prepared to pay $15+ per test. The unique features to exploit are multiplexing of dozens of quantitive tests combined with rapid & simple point-of-care use with minimal sample prep – carefully check out the full
At this week’s International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW 2013, Snowbird, Utah, June 12-16 2013), imec and Holst Centre presented a large-area fully-organic photodetector array fabricated on a flexible substrate. The imager is sensitive in the wavelength range suitable for x-ray imaging applications. Because of their very high absorption coefficient, organic semiconductors allow extremely thin active
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If you follow our PyroElectro articles, then you likely read about our construction and review of Club Jameco’s 8x8x8 LED Cube kit. Well we’re at it again, taking a look through a different kit, the Arduino Waveform Generator Shield. This shield provides an all-in-one DIY style function generator for low frequencies and the best part
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