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Toshiba’s Arm Cortex M Core-based Microcontrollers Support Mbed OS

“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”), as a Silicon Partner of Mbed (a device management solution for IoT platforms developed by Arm Ltd), acquired the certification of Mbed OS for its microcontrollers. Two evaluation boards that integrate these microcontrollers have …

TRS-80 Model 1 on a PIC32

“TRS-80 Model I emulated on a PIC32MX processor. It provides VGA video and PS/2 keyboard so as to be usable with commonly available hardware to-date (well, PS/2 keyboards are becoming rare, but it works with a USB …

Turning up the heat on thermoelectrics

“New materials, heated under high magnetic fields, could produce record levels of energy, model shows. Imagine being able to power your car partly from the heat that its engine gives off. Or what if you could get a portion of …

UART This! Serial Control of Stepper Motors With the TMC2208, Ramps 1.4 and Marlin

“Most people who are involved with DIY 3D printers or just like tinkering with a Maker-Grade commercial printer, will have heard of the Trinamic series of stepper motor driver chips. These little chips are making waves throughout the consumer and …

Universal Arduino Controller

“A few weeks after school got out I built a small Arduino robot. I wanted to move to the next step and I needed a controller. I started looking for a controller that let me choose what kind of signal …

Virgin Galactic’s spaceplane hits new heights in second powered flight

“Virgin Galactic has shown the first firing of its spaceplane’s chemical rocket engine was no fluke, following last month’s effort with another successful outing in California. The latest test flight took the tourist-carrying space vehicle a little closer …

What is an ETA Nixie Tube Clock and How Do You Build One?

“In our house, the concept of time is somewhat fuzzy. This is especially true in the morning as we get ready for school and work. The amount of days dropping off the kids late to school is a little embarrassing …

newelectronics de 22 de Maio 2018

“New Electronics is a fortnightly magazine focusing on technological innovation, news and the latest developments in the electronics sector. Downloadable as a digital page turner or pdf file, or offered as a hard copy, the New Electronics magazine is available …

2-Year Ultra Low-Power LED Flasher

“In this Instructable, I am going to try and explain, step by step, how I designed this Ultra Low-Power LED Flasher with the following specification: LED flash rate 1 flash per second LED on-time of 5ms At least 2 years …

3D Printed Raspberry Pi Zero Robot

“Have you ever wanted to build a robot, but just didn’t have all the materials to build one without ending up with an unnecessarily bulky chassis? 3D printers are here to save the day! Not only can they create …