Seeed Studio vs ITead Studio PCB service head to head

Florin made a head to head comparison of Seeed and ITead’s inexpensive PCB services. He made the orders with the same design files, on the same day. While the Seeed order came in after 4 weeks, ITead’s came just 15 days after the order was made. The author however suspects it might have been a […]

Ceramic, tantalum, and electrolytic capacitor comparison

Arhi made use of his precision LCR meter to measure capacitance and ESR values of ceramic, tantalum, and electrolytic capacitors. He made his measurements at various frequencies to help him graph the changes to the values over a wide frequency range. From the graph it can be extrapolated that the ceramic capacitors have the lowest […]

SSL/TLS library side by side comparison

Brian stumbled on this side by side comparison of SSL/TLS libraries and gave his review of it: So in summary of what code bases I find usable from a licensing prospective: TropicSSL and axTLS are clear winners in terms of the license CyaSSL and PolarSSL are GPL V2 + FLOSS which is less desirable Next I looked […]