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Raspberry Pi 2 IoT: Thingspeak & DHT22 Sensor

“This project uses a Raspberry Pi 2 to collect temperature and humidity data from a DHT22 sensor, which is then uploaded to the ThingSpeak Internet of Things platform to be displayed in real-time. This write-up is primarily intended to serve …

Reducing Arduino Power Consumption

“When it comes to portable electronics, one of the most important features is how to maximize the battery life. The ATmega328P, used on popular boards like the SparkFun RedBoard, Arduino Uno, and Pro Mini are actually quite power hungry. The …

Researchers Develop Way To “Fingerprint” the Brain

“Using a new imaging technique, researchers have developed a way to “fingerprint” the human brain, confirming what scientists have always thought to be true: the structural connections in the brain are unique to each individual person. The Carnegie Mellon University-led …

Retrieving ST-Link/V2 Firmware from Update Utility

“The STM32F3DISCOVERY is a small circuit board with a great microcontroller. The ARM Cortex-M4 chip has 256 KB of flash memory, 48 KB of RAM, USB and more. The board has huge amounts of header pins connected to the microcontroller …

Shelf Accent Lighting with Arduino, Smartthings and LED Strips

“This instructable is based on my previous instructable http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-and-SmartThings-LED-Strip-Lighting/ . During the previous instructable I learned a lot and it had to change pretty substantially. The purpose of this instructable is to fix the …

Simple DIY 3x4 LED display for Arduino MEGA / Uno / Nano

“In this Instructable I’ll show you how to make a small 3x4 LED ‘display’ for an Arduino with a minimum of 12 pins (in this case I used an Arduino Uno). One reason for me to build this was …

Smart IoT Postbox with the idIoTware Shield

“In this project, I am going to demonstrate how to build your own IoT aware Postbox with the help of the idIoTware shield in a few easy steps. This postbox alerts you about new envelopes dropped inside a postbox by …

Snake Vision Robot using two MLX90614 No Contact Temperature Modules

“So, what I have is two MLX90614ESF Human Body Infrared Temperature Non-Contact Temperature sensors from IC Station. - These sensors use the I2C bus, what I am doing is using a multiplexer and switching between the two sensors pretty fast. These …

SUMP2 – 96 MSPS Logic Analyzer for $22

“Black Mesa Labs has an ongoing mission to develop easy to use and fully capable open-source hardware and software tools that make engineering electronics easier. One such tool is this new low cost open-source logic analyzer called SUMP2 for people …

Taiwan’s TSMC to build $16bn advanced chip facility

“Contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which controls a leading 55% share of the global market, said on Wednesday it plans to build a $500 billion New Taiwan dollar ($15.7 billion) facility in Taiwan that would churn out the …