Microcontroller

Low-power Wireless Modules Support Multiple Protocols

NXP Semiconductors has announced a family of small-footprint wireless modules based on the ultra-low-power JN5168 microcontroller. Supporting multiple network stacks including ZigBee Home Automation, ZigBee Light Link, ZigBee Smart Energy, JenNet-IP and RF4CE, the JN5168 wireless modules feature footprints as small as 16 x 21 mm and very low power consumption in transmit and receive […]

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Displays suitable even for applications, where you´d not count with a display

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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A Really Flexible Microcontroller

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

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A 1.5 Volt, 1970’s Style LED Flashing Red Caboose Marker Light using tiny microcontroller

A circuit that drives a red LED from a 1.5 volt battery and simulates an incandescent light. Duty cycle can be changed by selecting resistor values. Photo 1. This printed circuit board is 3 cm long. The first prototype was made with through hole parts. This is a single sided surface mount board with one

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White LED Battery Powered Power Failure Light

Overview Where I live most of the time, the AC power drops out upon occasion. This used to leave me groping around in the dark for a flashlight. I could have bought a battery-backed up “emergency light” for about US$35, but being basically metal boxes with floodlights attached, they would make my living room look

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