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Harvesting Ambient Energy
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Harvesting Ambient Energy

Hybrid Power Sources Cut IoT Battery Dependency

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December 2024
Building An Unconventional Home Anemometer
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Building An Unconventional Home Anemometer

Using an Arduino Pro Mini Microcontroller

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10 mins  |
December 2024
Basic Pulse Circuits
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Basic Pulse Circuits

Part 1: Essentials for Processing Outside Signals 9

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December 2024
No Blues with Bluetooth!
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No Blues with Bluetooth!

Part 7: Versions 5.0 to 6.0

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December 2024
Amazing Eddy Currents
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Amazing Eddy Currents

Apply Them to Thin Metal Thickness Measurement

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December 2024
As a 'Matter of Fact
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As a 'Matter of Fact

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

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November 2024
Industrial Computers Boost Machine Vision Systems
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Industrial Computers Boost Machine Vision Systems

GPU and CPU Performance Drive Rugged Industrial Platforms

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November 2024
Infineon Introduces Industry's First 20 Gbps Universal USB Peripheral Controller
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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.

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November 2024
Microchip Makes it Easier to Build Sophisticated GUIs for MPLAB Harmony v3 and Linux Environments
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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.

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November 2024
Entertainment On Wheels
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Entertainment On Wheels

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

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November 2024
Using Amazon Alexa to Control Custom IoT Gadgets
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Using Amazon Alexa to Control Custom IoT Gadgets

Integrating Voice Recognition for Smart Home Projects

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November 2024
Datasheet: Power Up With DC-DC Converters
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Datasheet: Power Up With DC-DC Converters

Application Types Drive Parameters Beyond Efficiency and Density

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November 2024
D&D Die Roller with Raspberry PI RP2040
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D&D Die Roller with Raspberry PI RP2040

Fantastical Project Built with MCU TFT Display and LVGL Graphics

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November 2024
No Blues with Bluetooth!
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No Blues with Bluetooth!

Part 6: Bluetooth Cybersecurity Basics

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November 2024
LoRaWAN Goes the Distance at Low Power
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LoRaWAN Goes the Distance at Low Power

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

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November 2024
Catching Lightning in an IMU
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Catching Lightning in an IMU

Simulating Diffusion-Limited Aggregation with a Raspberry PI RP2040 MCU

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November 2024
Build an Interactive Kinetic Wall
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Build an Interactive Kinetic Wall

Using a Raspberry Pi 4 and Kinect V1 Camera

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October 2024
Learn to Program MCUs with uLISP
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Learn to Program MCUs with uLISP

Part 1: Crash Course Offers Insight Into Pioneering Language

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October 2024
Intelligent Automotive Battery Sensor
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Intelligent Automotive Battery Sensor

Shunt Resistors and Evaluation Electronics Offer Two Key Components

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October 2024
Understanding Mesh Circuits How to Use and Calculate Them
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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.

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October 2024
Datasheet: Very Cool Micro Machines
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Datasheet: Very Cool Micro Machines

Smartphone Cooling Rounds Out Parade of Advanced MEMS

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October 2024
Improving Patient Outcomes
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Improving Patient Outcomes

Device Technology Advances Medical Practices

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October 2024
Bringing Cost-Effective, On-Device AI to Home Appliances - Sparse Weights and Interactions Negate GPUs and Cloud Computing
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Bringing Cost-Effective, On-Device AI to Home Appliances - Sparse Weights and Interactions Negate GPUs and Cloud Computing

GPU silicon and cloud computing infrastructure are too costly for mass markets devices like refrigerators and washers. By deploying compute resources only to the necessary parts of AI inference, Sparse AI allows product designers to practically incorporate new AI features like natural voice interfaces into their consumer offerings without breaking the bank or electric bill surprises.

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September 2024
Thin Film Transistor LED Displays - Visual I/O
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Thin Film Transistor LED Displays - Visual I/O

To add a resistive touchscreen on top of a TFT display, Jeff explores the technology offerings and libraries needed to accomplish his task. Calibrating the touchscreen's computed coordinates with the actual pixel coordinates of the display proved difficult with a modular framework but separating functions allows easy expansion.

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September 2024
Mobile APP Development with React Native
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Mobile APP Development with React Native

This month, Bob continues his series on mobile app development from an embedded designer's perspective. He programs a React Native app and he offers guidelines for picking a tutorial for React Native. He further explores how it handles concurrency and asynchronous programming. Bob expected a few nuances during the process but to say there were more than a few would be an understatement.

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9 mins  |
September 2024
Power Analysis Over JTAG Ports: Hidden Debug Dangers - Block Side-Channel Analysis Attacks
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Power Analysis Over JTAG Ports: Hidden Debug Dangers - Block Side-Channel Analysis Attacks

Small changes in the phase of clock signals can encode power leakages. An attacker can use standard interfaces such as the JTAG port to drive clocks across targets, using them as measurement techniques for sidechannel analysis attacks despite limited physical access. This article demonstrates how you can test devices for vulnerability and how to modify devices to prevent attacks.

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September 2024
The Blues Wireless Notecard-LoRa
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The Blues Wireless Notecard-LoRa

After having built a number of Wi-Fi IoT gadgets for the home, Brian became curious to see how LoRaWAN-based IoT devices would work. He decided to investigate the Notecard LoRa IoT modules made by Blues Wireless.

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September 2024
IoT Protection with MCU Security - Ward Off Attacks with Trust Zones, Encryption, Secure Keys and Tamper Detection
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IoT Protection with MCU Security - Ward Off Attacks with Trust Zones, Encryption, Secure Keys and Tamper Detection

Security breaches jumped 107 percent as malevolent forces increasingly focused on IoT devices for side attacks, IP and data theft. Semiconductor vendors supplying on-chip cryptography, memory protection, unclonable technology, random number generation and other measures hope to shut the door on attackers.

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September 2024
Fill AI with Computer Vision - On the Leading Edge of Adoption in Industrial IoT
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Fill AI with Computer Vision - On the Leading Edge of Adoption in Industrial IoT

In just about any factory, production lines hum along like a symphonic orchestra. However, makers of artificial intelligence hardware are pushing transformative technology with mind-boggling productivity gains to unlock unrealized potential. Just how fast will AI seamlessly integrate into the means of production?

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September 2024
No Blues with Bluetooth! GATT Explained - Part 5 - Understanding Higher Protocol Layers Provides Interoperability Help
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No Blues with Bluetooth! GATT Explained - Part 5 - Understanding Higher Protocol Layers Provides Interoperability Help

After exploring low-level layers of Bluetooth Low Energy in previous editions, and establishing connections in Part 4, Robert examines Attribute Protocol and Generic Attribute Profile or GATT in Part 5. These higher layer protocols provide developers with greater opportunity for interoperability with third-party applications or products.

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September 2024