Raj of Embedded Lab has posted a detail review of mikroElektronika’s popular EasyPIC v7 development board: MikroElektronika, a Belgrade, Serbia-based company is well-known for producing quality software and hardware development tools for a wide range of microcontroller families, including PIC, AVR, and ARM processors. Their mikroC Pro for PIC has always been my favorite PIC compiler, […]
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Week in (p)review March 28, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Hacker Camp Shenzhen map and schedule arrives Hacker Camp Shenzhen patches Meet the amazing China power outlet USB RGB color changer, Superprobe, and xQFP80 +65 Protoboard free PCB build Bus Pirate Demo Board 1: 1 Wire devices Check out TomKeddie’s USB […]
Tektronix MDO4104B-6 mixed domain oscilloscope (MDO4000B) review and experiments
Tektronix MDO4104B-6 mixed domain oscilloscope (MDO4000B) review and experiments by Shahriar: In this episode Shahriar reviews and demos the second revision of the industry’s first Mixed Domain Oscilloscope from Tektronix. The MDO4000B series offers improved signal integrity and performance. The reviewed model is a MDO4104B-6 which offers 16-Channel Logic Analyzer, 4-Channel Oscilloscope with 1GHz of analog […]
Week in (p)review March 21, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Hacker Camp Shenzhen – Shenzhen workshop hackerspace passport stamps Bus Pirate v3.6, Logic Sniffer are back in stock Bus Pirate v3.8 free PCB build NXP ARM Cortex M0/M3 LQFP-48 Breakout board free PCB build and a swag bag revival Check out […]
Week in (p)review March 14, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Hacker Camp Shenzhen – BGA chips: remove, reball, replace the easy way Hacker Camp Shenzhen – Last minute chance to join us at soldering school this week Hacker Camp Shenzhen – Getting a data SIM card in Shenzhen Rob informs us […]
Mini-Circuits USB power sensor review
Mini-Circuits USB power sensor review by KF5OBS Quick and brief look at the Mini-Circuits PWR-SEN-4RMS USB power sensor. It can measure the power of modulated and unmodulated signals between 50 MHz – 4000 MHz. The measurable power range is from -35 dBm to +20 dBm (100 mW).
Week in (p)review March 07, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Interfacing Adafruit 7-segment Backpack with Bus Pirate Bus Blaster v3 and Bus Pirate v4 are back in stock Bus Pirate v3.8 free PCB build Check out Michał’s DIY USB Infrared Toy, EverLost’s color wordclock, and joeforker’s update on his ATtiny LED driver for an […]
Week in (p)review February 28, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Bus Pirate v3.8 free PCB build Bus Pirate v3.6 Sick of Beige v1 acrylic case v1 and USB Infrared Toy v2 back in stock Check out piranha32 and Tom’s prototyping cape for the BeagleBone/Black in the project log forum Coming up: Free PCBs […]
Week in (p)review February 21, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Hacker Camp Shenzhen 2014 registration Bus Pirate v4 Acrylic case kit v1 back in stock Turning your Flash Destroyer into a clock Check out joeforker’s ATtiny LED driver for an RC car and phalox’ own version of 1D pong […]
New member of the WS2812 family
cpldcpu writes: What’s pretty cool about these LEDs is that they are diffuse – no more blinding unidirectional light. This might be very useful for indicator lights. Furthermore, you can easily wire them freeform without a pcb. I see a lot of RGB LED cubes coming up… The LEDs come with four leads: VCC, GND, […]
Experiments and demo of an Agilent DSA-X 96204Q 160GS/s 62GHz oscilloscope
Shahriar writes: In this episode Shahriar demos the world’s fastest oscilloscope! The Agilent DSA-X 96204Q offers 160GS/s of conversion rate with a bandwidth of 62GHz on two dedicated ‘RealEdge’ channels. It can also provide 80GS/s conversion rate and 33GHz of bandwidth on four simultaneous channels. The unit demoed in this video is equipped with all […]
Week in (p)review February 14, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Hacker Camp Shenzhen is coming! Sick of Beige basic case v1 (DP8049) and ATX Breakout Board V1.1 Acrylic case are back in stock Check out Erdabyz’s high altitude balloon electronics in the project log forum Coming up: Free PCBs via Facebook on […]
Week in (p)review February 07, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Shenzhen workshop April 3-5, 2014 Free PCB Store restock: Prototype Bus Pirate probe cables N1KSN Iambic Keyer free PCB build Latest ‘New Year’ release of AnalysIR with full support for USB IR Toy Check out Tom’s 1-3 I2C […]
Week in (p)review January 31, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Free PCB Store restock: Heat shrink labels for Bus Pirate probe cable, and Dangerous Prototypes Stickers Programming a Silicon Labs’ EFM32 zero gecko with python via the Bus Pirate Using the Bus Blaster to program Lattice CPLDs Cristian’s 18F2550 […]
Week in (p)review January 24, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. PCB drawer restock – Bus Pirate v3.8 Bus Pirate probe cable prototypes and giveaway Bus Pirate cable professionally printed shrink tubes Bus Pirate cable and L-Mark LK-320P heat shrink printer XC2C64A CPLD development board back in stock Free […]
Cypress PSoC4 Pioneer kit review
Tayken wrote up a review of Cypress PSoC4 Pioneer kit: I mostly work with microcontrollers and occasionally FPGAs. I already had a PSoC3 board that a Japanese magazine was giving so I had a pretty good idea about what PSoC is. For those of you who are new to the term, PSoC stands for Programmable System-on-Chip, it […]
Week in (p)review January 17, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. XC9572XL CPLD development board back in stock USB IR Toy – Infrared modulation frequency review Check out noahp’s 0.96″ 128×64 OLED breakout, Bertho’s 7-segment clock and scasagrande’s GPIBUSB Adapter rev3 in the project log forum Coming up: Free PCBs via Facebook […]
USB IR Toy – Infrared modulation frequency review
Chris from AnalysIR presents this review on setting the modulation frequency on the USB IR Toy. Via the contact form.
Week in (p)review January 10, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Making a Dangerous Prototypes sign in Shenzhen XC9572XL CPLD development board, Bus Blaster v4 and DP6037 Protoboard v1 PCB back in stock We had 1000 boxes and part holding trays made up for the new OOMP part management system Recovering e3000 […]
Week in (p)review January 03, 2014
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Bus Pirate LCD adapter v3 back in stock Another Bus Pirate reference sheet Check out Doub’s dev board for Lua programming, Mats AndyBrd and MainSlogger and Markus’ alarm clock time using an OLED in the project log forum Coming up: Free PCBs via Facebook on […]