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Wireless Technology

Redstone 14 Sep 2022 13:16

Wireless networks are all around us and devices are not talking to us - they are talking to each other! In this article, we look at the wireless protocols low-power devices are using to converse.

Redstone

14 Sep 2022 13:16

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Is Your Arduino Fast Enough For Your Neopixel Or Dotstar Application?

mbeach 25 Jul 2017 10:32

Neopixels and Dotstars from Adafruit are popular addressable LED arrays and chains. The serial protocols used are at the limit of what basic Arduinos can manage. The ShieldBuddy with its 3 200MHz CPUs can drive multiple arrays genuinely in parallel.

mbeach

25 Jul 2017 10:32

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IMPROVING, OPTIMIZING AND ACCELERATING YOUR EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FOR POWER EFFICIENCY WITH RENESAS RL78 WEB SIMULATOR TOOL

SBikek 30 May 2017 14:46

Renesas RL78 Web simulator tools are to be able to give Developers, Engineers and Makers a real head start when they start developing a Low-power application. They can simulate consumption current of RL78 MCUs without the need to purchase a dev. tool

SBikek

30 May 2017 14:46

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Fridge monitoring with SensorTile.box and Microsoft Azure IoT Central

KamillaAliakhmet 16 Sep 2019 11:57

SensorTile.box from STMicroelectronics was used to collect the sensory data such as temperature and humidity inside the fridge, which was then sent to Microsoft Azure IoT Central platform.

KamillaAliakhmet

16 Sep 2019 11:57

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Cypress PSoC 6 WiFi For All

Redstone 14 Aug 2018 09:31

Microcontrollers are scary devices, aren't they? Well, no. Not really. In this article I run up a Cypress Semiconductor PSoC 6 Wi-Fi kit to show that any reasonably confident SBC user can use their powerful features.

Redstone

14 Aug 2018 09:31

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Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacon deployment is gaining

jjmeeks 17 Feb 2017 10:53

Bluetooth BLE beacons will provide proximity awareness to a growing population that carry smartphones. Silicon Labs offers a BGM11x Bluetooth BLE module family and development kit for designers of BLE beacon applications.

jjmeeks

17 Feb 2017 10:53

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Connect the Community: Design Challenge - Winners

Grass Roots 24 Jul 2020 14:50

We invited you to think big to transform the lives of people living in isolation using IoT technologies through our partnership with Cadent and Nordic Semiconductor - learn more about the winners of the competition!

Grass Roots

24 Jul 2020 14:50

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Connecting Cars

Redstone 25 Feb 2020 14:49

Remember when the vehicle entertainment system was an AM radio and a cigarette lighter? We look at what is happening in the fast-paced world of automotive development and what we can expect to see very soon.

Redstone

25 Feb 2020 14:49

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Batteries for Small Projects

Bill Marshall 28 Jun 2022 14:30

The choice of battery power supply for a mobile or portable electronics project may be the least interesting part of the design, but make the wrong choice and all that development work will have been wasted.

Bill Marshall

28 Jun 2022 14:30

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Modelling an NFC Ring with DesignSpark Mechanical

stuartChilds 03 Nov 2016 13:39

Print-your-own wearables made easy with the powerful CAD package from RS

stuartChilds

03 Nov 2016 13:39

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