Circuit Cellar Magazine - November 2024

In this issue

4: LoRaWAN Goes the Distance at Low Power IoT's Versatile Protocol for Long-Range, Wide-Area Connectivity
By Pedro Bertoleti

12: Catching Lightning in an IMU
Simulating Diffusion-Limited Aggregation with a Raspberry PI RP2040 MCU
By Angela Cui, Nathaniel Navarro, William Yoon

20: No Blues with Bluetooth!
Part 6: Bluetooth Cybersecurity Basics
By Robert Lacoste

26: D&D Die Roller with Raspberry PI RP2040
Fantastical Project Built with MCU, TFT Display and LVGL Graphics
By Andrew Levido

32: TECHNOLOGY FEATURE
Entertainment On Wheels
In-Dash Panels Control Head Units, Multiple Displays, Cameras and Sensors
By Tom Murphy

38: DATASHEET
Power Up With DC-DC Converters
Application Types Drive Parameters Beyond Efficiency and Density
By Tom Murphy

42: Picking Up Mixed Signals
Using Amazon Alexa to Control Custom IoT Gadgets Integrating Voice Recognition for Smart Home Projects
By Brian Millier

50: From the Bench
As a 'Matter' of Fact
Inside Latest Home Control Consolidation Attempt via Google
Home and Matter-over-Thread
By Jeff Bachiochi

61: TECH THE FUTURE
The Future of Manufacturing Automation
Industrial Computers Boost Machine Vision Systems
GPU and CPU Performance Drive Rugged Industrial Platforms
By Cindy Lin

LoRaWAN Goes the Distance at Low Power

IoT’s Versatile Protocol for Long-Range, Wide-Area Connectivity

10+ mins

Catching Lightning in an IMU

Simulating Diffusion-Limited Aggregation with a Raspberry PI RP2040 MCU

10+ mins

No Blues with Bluetooth!

Part 6: Bluetooth Cybersecurity Basics

10+ mins

D&D Die Roller with Raspberry PI RP2040

Fantastical Project Built with MCU TFT Display and LVGL Graphics

10+ mins

Entertainment On Wheels

In-Dash Panels Control Head Units, Multiple Displays, Cameras and Sensors

10+ mins

Datasheet: Power Up With DC-DC Converters

Application Types Drive Parameters Beyond Efficiency and Density

3 mins

Using Amazon Alexa to Control Custom IoT Gadgets

Integrating Voice Recognition for Smart Home Projects

10+ mins

As a 'Matter of Fact

Inside atest Home Control Consolidation Attempt via Google Home and Matter-over-Thread

10+ mins

Microchip Makes it Easier to Build Sophisticated GUIs for MPLAB Harmony v3 and Linux Environments

Designers are incorporating Graphical User Interfaces, or GUIs, into more electronic devices to enhance the user experience by providing intuitive and visually appealing interactions with today's modern applications.

1 min

Infineon Introduces Industry's First 20 Gbps Universal USB Peripheral Controller

Infineon Technologies announced the addition of the EZUSBTM FX20 programmable USB peripheral controller to its EZ-USB product family.

1 min

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Circuit Cellar magazine features engineering tutorials, detailed microcontroller-based projects, and embedded systems industry news for professional electrical engineers, EE/ECE academics, and highly skilled electronics enthusiasts. Since 1988, Circuit Cellar has featured projects and tutorials from the world's top engineers on subjects such as embedded development (e.g., prototyping and programming), signal processing (e.g., DSP chips and signal conditioning), programmable logic (e.g., FPGA projects), sensor systems (e.g., smart sensors and MEMS), 'Net-connected devices (e.g., IoT projects and protocol stacks), robotics (e.g., robotic systems and proximity sensing), and much more. Circuit Cellar is the ultimate resource for all of your electrical engineering-related needs.