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How to build a Linear Actuator powered by Solenoids and controlled by an Adafruit Metro M4

“This website describes how to build your own linear actuator or motor using a pair of solenoid valves and an Arduino microcontroller. The linear actuator I am describing was built at NJIT in 1994 by a Master’s student named …

Intel Introduces Tremont Microarchitecture

“Today at the Linley Fall Processor Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., Intel revealed the first architectural details related to Tremont. Intel’s newest and most advanced low-power x86 CPU architecture, Tremont offers a significant performance boost over prior generations. “Tremont …

IoT Based Smart Irrigation System Using Soil Moisture Sensor and ESP8266 NodeMCU

“The Smart irrigation System has wide scope to automate the complete irrigation system. Here we are building a IoT based Irrigation System using ESP8266 NodeMCU Module and DHT11 Sensor. It will not only automatically irrigate the water based on the …

IoT Energy Meter

“Make your own smart energy meter that generates bill every minute which you can see on your smart phone or laptop You must have your traditional energy meters at home that generates bill every month, too boring. Now make your …

JTAG Debugging the ESP32 with FT2232 and OpenOCD

“In “Eclipse JTAG Debugging the ESP32 with a SEGGER J-Link” I used a SEGGER J-Link to debug an ESP32 device with JTAG. I looked at using one of the FTDI FT2232HL development boards which are supported by OpenOCD. The FT2232HL …

Light and strong: Hybrid lightweight components made of steel and fiber-reinforced plastics

“In recent years there has been a sharp increase in demand for lighter components for applications in mobility and transport in response to the need to save weight, and therefore energy and resources. Hybrid components made of steel, locally functionalized …

Lithium Coin Cell Charger for Rechargeable CR2016 CR2025 CR2032 Coin Batteries

“This versatile charger has been designed to charge Lithium Coin Cell Rechargeable CR2016/CR2025/CR2032 Coin Batteries. Just insert the battery to the holder, and plug in to any USB port to recharge, D3 Power LED, D1 LED indicates the …

Logic Analyzer - HPS-powered Logic Analyzer debugging FPGA

“Abstract With increase in size of FPGA, the complexity of design implemented on FPGA is also increasing. In often cases, the design works fine on simulation but behaves differently on hardware. So, there arises a need to debug/monitor buses …

Microchip Solves Interoperability Challenges of Delivering up to 90 Watts of Power Over Ethernet Wiring

“Company’s Power over Ethernet (PoE) offering enables both pre-standard and IEEE 802.3bt-2018-compliant devices to be powered within existing Ethernet infrastructure As the industry adopts the latest generation of PoE technology for managing data and power over a single …

Microchip’s Low-Power Radiation-Tolerant (RT) PolarFire FPGA Enables High-Bandwidth Space Systems with Lower Total System Cost

“Industry’s lowest-power FPGA enables high-throughput on-orbit processing systems that withstand radiation effects in space Developers of spacecraft electronics use radiation-tolerant (RT) field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to create on-board systems that meet the demanding performance needs of future space …