Circuit Cellar - December 2024

In this issue

4: Amazing Eddy Currents: Apply Them to Thin Metal Thickness Measurement By George R. Steber

10: No Blues with Bluetooth!: Part 7: Versions 5.0 to 6.0 By Robert Lacoste

16: Basic Pulse Circuits - Part 1: Essentials for Processing Outside Signals By Wolfgang Matthes

24: Building An Unconventional Home Anemometer Using an Arduino Pro Mini Microcontroller By Gamal Labib

30: TECHNOLOGY FEATURE: Harvesting Ambient Energy -Hybrid Power Sources Cut IoT Battery Dependency By Tom Murphy

36: DATASHEET: Tiny Embedded Boards Power, Performance, and Versatility in Meager Square Millimeters By Tom Murphy

40: Embedded in Thin Slices: Easing the Path for App Releases -Managed Development of React Native with Expo By Bob Japenga

44: START TO FINISH: Driving LCDs - Lumex Display with Microchip Driver for a TI MCU By Stuart Ball

50: FROM THE BENCH: The Long and Winding Road - From Maxim’s RS-232 to WeMos ESP32: So Much to Do, So Little Time By Jeff Bachiochi

62: TECH THE FUTURE: Navigating the Chip Creation Space - Custom Silicon at Lower Cost, Reduced Development Time By Michael Wishart

Circuit Cellar Magazine Description:

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.