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ZigBee, Bluetooth and the newer Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE/Smart) are all communication protocols for Wireless Personal…

ZigBee, Bluetooth and the newer Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE/Smart) are all communication protocols for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), but they are optimized for different applications.

Learn how to set up the Wunderbar platform to begin building your own IoT apps. This will demonstrate the "Can't Touch…

Learn how to set up the Wunderbar platform to begin building your own IoT apps. This will demonstrate the "Can't Touch This" and "Tell Me When" demo applications to measure WunderBar sensors and perform actions based on them. Some of the major bugs are discussed.

Getting started with PSoC®, the Programmable-System-on-Chip by Cypress Semiconductor for developing and testing embedded systems.

Getting started with PSoC®, the Programmable-System-on-Chip by Cypress Semiconductor for developing and testing embedded systems.

Create a smart home by displaying the current salt level of your water softener with the CC3200 and a proximity sensor.

Create a smart home by displaying the current salt level of your water softener with the CC3200 and a proximity sensor.

Beaglebone Black is the most recent incarnation of the Beaglebone open source hardware platform. For less than $50, the…

Beaglebone Black is the most recent incarnation of the Beaglebone open source hardware platform. For less than $50, the board includes Ethernet, graphics processing, 4Gb of nonvolatile storage, and ports supporting USB, HDMI, and Beaglebone's custom I/O add-ons, called "capes". Here's how to run some simple commands to toggle digital I/O on the board!

Part 4 in the “How to Make an Ambient Light Monitor” series

Part 4 in the “How to Make an Ambient Light Monitor” series

This is one simple way to control a LED, fan, relay or solenoid with a computer and a PIC.

This is one simple way to control a LED, fan, relay or solenoid with a computer and a PIC.

Operational amplifiers are a cornerstone of EE design. Get your first taste of this topic through a few simple circuit exercises!

Operational amplifiers are a cornerstone of EE design. Get your first taste of this topic through a few simple circuit exercises!

Building on skills developed in the introductory KiCad tutorial, this article will focus on creating custom parts and…

Building on skills developed in the introductory KiCad tutorial, this article will focus on creating custom parts and adding them to a local library, expanding the default libraries to include community repositories, and contributing parts back into the open source ecosystem. The end product will be a MAX31855 K-type thermocouple amplifier which can be used for a huge array of temperature sensing projects.

Detect audio with an electret microphone and a TI CC3200 Wifi microcontroller. This handy project will allow you to set…

Detect audio with an electret microphone and a TI CC3200 Wifi microcontroller. This handy project will allow you to set up an audio detection device that can be used to catch your roommate stealing things from the fridge or send you an alert if the noise in your room goes above a certain threshold.

How to read humidity and temperature from a DHT11 and display it on a LCD with a PIC microcontroller. In this example…

How to read humidity and temperature from a DHT11 and display it on a LCD with a PIC microcontroller. In this example we're going to use a PIC16F628A.

How to interface a Raspberry Pi to an I2C temperature sensor (TMP102) and then publish the data to a Google sheet and graph.

How to interface a Raspberry Pi to an I2C temperature sensor (TMP102) and then publish the data to a Google sheet and graph.

Multiplexing was developed in the early 1870s, but it’s become much more applicable to digital telecommunications in…

Multiplexing was developed in the early 1870s, but it’s become much more applicable to digital telecommunications in the late 20th century. Today, frequency division multiplexing (FDM), time division multiplexing (TDM), and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) have become an extremely important asset to telecommunication processes and has greatly improved the way that we transmit and receive independent signals over AM and FM radio, telephone lines, and optical fibers.

This article describes in detail the connections necessary for two way communications between PICAXE microcontrollers and…

This article describes in detail the connections necessary for two way communications between PICAXE microcontrollers and personal computers. Both serial connections and USB to serial conversion connections are covered.

Use the EFM8’s USB functionality to transfer an image from your PC to an LCD.

Use the EFM8’s USB functionality to transfer an image from your PC to an LCD.

Learn how to connect your device with Linux Screen using the built-in Lua interpreter to set up the file system and…

Learn how to connect your device with Linux Screen using the built-in Lua interpreter to set up the file system and connect to the network. Then, learn how to automate the scripting process with Luatool and put it all together with a basic TCP server that can interact with a pulse-width modulated LED, a potentiometer, and a switch.

Many embedded applications benefit from a communications interface that allows for convenient data transfer between a PC…

Many embedded applications benefit from a communications interface that allows for convenient data transfer between a PC and a microcontroller. This article explains how to use the virtual COM port library from Silicon Laboratories to send data from a Windows application to an EFM8 microcontroller.

When you buy a Raspberry Pi, you just buy a printed circuit board which doesn’t even come with a power supply or…

When you buy a Raspberry Pi, you just buy a printed circuit board which doesn’t even come with a power supply or operating system. This tutorial is concerned with getting your Raspberry Pi set up and ready to use.

This article describes the technical aspects of Performing Mesh analysis with Dependent Sources.

This article describes the technical aspects of Performing Mesh analysis with Dependent Sources.