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Crash Landing on Venus to Proposing the World Wide Web: The March 2018 Hardware History Roundup

Crash Landing on Venus to Proposing the World Wide Web: The March 2018 Hardware History Roundup

Venera 3 crash lands on Venus, the Homebrew Computer Club meets for the first time, and the World Wide Web is proposed. Check out this hardware history roundup for March!


News Mar 04, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Historical Engineers: Alexander Graham Bell and the First Telephone

Historical Engineers: Alexander Graham Bell and the First Telephone

March 3rd marks what would be the 171st birthday of Alexander Graham Bell. He is credited by many as the inventor of the telephone, but that wasn’t his only innovation.


News Mar 03, 2018 by Tim Youngblood
Neutrik etherCON® Connectors | New Product Brief

Neutrik etherCON® Connectors | New Product Brief

Neutrik etherCON Connectors are built to transfer data in harsh and demanding environments, such as pro audio, video, and lighting networks.


What Exactly Is a Quartz Crystal, Anyways? A Look at Quartz Crystal Oscillators

What Exactly Is a Quartz Crystal, Anyways? A Look at Quartz Crystal Oscillators

This article explains some theory behind an extremely common electronic component.


Robots and AI: Our New Lawyers, Police, and Dentists?

Robots and AI: Our New Lawyers, Police, and Dentists?

Increasingly more capable robots and artificial intelligence systems are capable of even more complex jobs that normally would require years of post-secondary training for a human to do. Here are a few examples in law, law enforcement, and dentistry.


News Mar 02, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Digitally Adjust DC-to-DC Voltage Regulators: A PMBus-Controlled Current DAC

Digitally Adjust DC-to-DC Voltage Regulators: A PMBus-Controlled Current DAC

A PMBus-controlled, bidirectional current DAC (digital-to-analog converter) that can adjust the output voltage of a DC/DC converter.


News Mar 02, 2018 by Nick Davis
How to Decode Manchester-Encoded Data Using Hardware

How to Decode Manchester-Encoded Data Using Hardware

This article looks at some circuits that can help you extract the original data from a Manchester-encoded signal.


How to Run From a Coin Cell for 10 Years

How to Run From a Coin Cell for 10 Years

Check out this buck converter that is designed to extend battery life from months to years in IoT applications, like sensor nodes and beacons.


MicroPower, MicroSize, Near-Zero Drift, and Low Offset Voltage: A New Op-Amp from Texas Instruments

MicroPower, MicroSize, Near-Zero Drift, and Low Offset Voltage: A New Op-Amp from Texas Instruments

A new operational amplifier from Texas Instruments offers impressive specifications in a very small package.


News Mar 01, 2018 by Nick Davis
Vishay WSBS Power Metal Strip Battery Shunt Resistors | Tech Specs

Vishay WSBS Power Metal Strip Battery Shunt Resistors | Tech Specs

Let's talk about something big, and that’s a big power to resistor size ratio.


new products Mar 01, 2018 by TTI, Inc
Maxim MAX30001 Biopotential Analog Front-End Solution | New Product Brief

Maxim MAX30001 Biopotential Analog Front-End Solution | New Product Brief

Maxim’s MAX30001 is a complete biopotential and bioimpedance analog front end for wearables, offering high performance and low power consumption.


How to Make an IoT Teapot | The Gentleman Maker

How to Make an IoT Teapot | The Gentleman Maker

No longer will you have to get off the couch or out of your warm bed to get the pot brewed!


Projects Feb 28, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
The Ghost of Smart Glasses Past: Resurrecting Augmented Reality Wearables

The Ghost of Smart Glasses Past: Resurrecting Augmented Reality Wearables

Here is a look at a few augmented reality headset projects and uses, and why there is still a case for AR in 2018.


News Feb 28, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Teardown Tuesday: Steam Gaming Controller

Teardown Tuesday: Steam Gaming Controller

In this teardown, we inspect the innards of a wireless Bluetooth controller, called the Steam Controller.


News Feb 27, 2018 by Nick Davis
Littelfuse MHP-TAT18 Hybrid PPTC Resettable PTCs | New Product Brief

Littelfuse MHP-TAT18 Hybrid PPTC Resettable PTCs | New Product Brief

The Littelfuse MHP-TAT18 is a metal hybrid PPTC. They are miniature resettable thermal cutoff devices that provide overcurrent and overtemperature protection to help meet battery safety requirements for lithium polymer and prismatic batteries.


How to Generate Manchester-Encoded Data in Hardware and Firmware

How to Generate Manchester-Encoded Data in Hardware and Firmware

This article discusses implementation details for a simple yet effective technique that can improve your digital communication.


USB Type-C: An Autonomous Port Controller with I2C and GPIO Control

USB Type-C: An Autonomous Port Controller with I2C and GPIO Control

In this article, we look at ON Semiconductor's FUSB303, which is a fully autonomous USB Type-C controller.


News Feb 26, 2018 by Nick Davis
Design a Custom Microcontroller Programming and Testing Board

Design a Custom Microcontroller Programming and Testing Board

In this article we’ll discuss the design for a custom microcontroller programming/debug/extension PCB and we’ll look at an example project.


Projects Feb 25, 2018 by Robert Keim
Laird Sentrius RG1 LoRa-Enabled Gateway | New Product Brief

Laird Sentrius RG1 LoRa-Enabled Gateway | New Product Brief

Laird Sentrius RG1 Series LoRa-Enabled Gateway is a scalable, secure solution to deploy robust LoRaWAN networks.


Incomplete If Statements and Latch Inference in VHDL

Incomplete If Statements and Latch Inference in VHDL

In this article, we’ll see that a memory element can be unintentionally inferred from an incomplete “if” statement.