Circuit Cellar - October 2024

In this issue

4: Learn to Program MCUs with uLISP — Part 1: Crash Course on a Pioneering Language, By Raul Alvarez Torrico
12: Locate Your Missing Smartphone — Use an Arduino MKR 1010 MCU, Arduino IoT Hub, and Zapier, By Andrei Florian
22: Build an Interactive Kinetic Wall — Using a Raspberry Pi 4 and Kinect V1 Camera, By Arijit Das
30: TECHNOLOGY FEATURE: Improving Patient Outcomes — Device Technology Advances Medical Practices, By Tom Murphy
36: DATASHEET: Very Cool Micro Machines — Smartphone Cooling Rounds Out Parade of Advanced MEMS, By Tom Murphy
40: START TO FINISH: Understanding Mesh Circuits — How to Use and Calculate Them, By Stuart Ball
44: EMBEDDED IN THIN SLICES: React Native Hooks — The Closest Thing to System Calls,
By Bob Japenga
50: FROM THE BENCH: Turning up the Heat — Building a Smart Thermostat, By Jeff Bachiochi
63: TECH THE FUTURE: The Future of Automotive Battery Sensors — Intelligent Automotive Battery Sensor — Shunt Resistors and Evaluation, By Andreas Heder & Panagiotis Venardos

Learn to Program MCUs with uLISP

Part 1: Crash Course Offers Insight Into Pioneering Language

10+ mins

Build an Interactive Kinetic Wall

Using a Raspberry Pi 4 and Kinect V1 Camera

10 mins

Improving Patient Outcomes

Device Technology Advances Medical Practices

10+ mins

Datasheet: Very Cool Micro Machines

Smartphone Cooling Rounds Out Parade of Advanced MEMS

2 mins

Understanding Mesh Circuits How to Use and Calculate Them

Microcontrollers and other digital systems concern mostly ones and zeros but when connections to the real word are needed it can get messy. Stuart writes about mesh analysis and how mesh circuits can be calculated and applied in practical scenarios.

10+ mins

Intelligent Automotive Battery Sensor

Shunt Resistors and Evaluation Electronics Offer Two Key Components

4 mins

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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.