We create NeoPixel light installations with Fishino and NodeMCU controlled via Wi-Fi from a PC or Raspberry Pi using a Python library. A few years ago, the American company Adafruit Industries transformed the LED market by introducing NeoPixels, RGB LEDs that incorporate their own controller in a single package. Adafruit aimed to simplify LED management…
Maker Faire Rome 2024 is ready to amaze the public with an extraordinary showcase of ingenuity and technological innovation, thanks to the Elettronici Entusiasti. This collective of passionate creators, through their YouTube channels and technical expertise, has captured the attention of hundreds of thousands of followers. Their mission? To rekindle interest in electronics, making, and…
All Calls Now Open for Maker Faire Rome 2024 From 25th to 27th October, the festival on innovation, promoted and organized by the Rome Chamber of Commerce, will return to the Gazometro Ostiense. The calls for Maker Faire Rome 2024 are now open! The event, promoted and organized by the Rome Chamber of Commerce (www.makerfairerome.eu),…
The initiative rewards the most innovative projects in areas related to environmental sustainability. FAE Technology will manufacture the electronic board prototypes for the top three winners. The contest is organized in collaboration with FAE Technology S.p.A. an Innovative SME operating in the design, prototyping, engineering, and production of integrated electronic solutions, announces the launch of…
We pick up the fascinating Nixie tubes through displays based on packages of laser-engraved plexiglass plates, illuminated by Neopixel LEDs. For those born in the era of solid-state displays, be they LED, 7-segment, dot-matrix, or even liquid crystal, it is difficult to imagine how text and numbers were displayed before their advent; Well, those who…
PCBWay now offers a full turnkey contract manufacturing service with its strategic alliance partners including product design, product development, engineering validation, PCBA (Printed Circuit Board Assembly) manufacturing service and supply chain management. Mainly focused on EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Service) projects, PCBWay will continue to expand into other areas including ODM (Original Design Manufacturing) and OEM…
Based on Neopixel and a special ultra-thin Arduino, it simulates the light produced by chimney flames As every year, the approach of the winter season stimulates our imagination and reminds us that electronics can do a lot, not only concretely (creating automatisms for indoor air conditioning) but also for pleasure and leisure; so here are…
The usual rectangular shaped PCBs got bored. The current prototyping services like PCBWAY allow to create PCBs with different shapes. An excellent software that allows you to get the gerber to be printed is Eagle. With the help of other free software such as Google Sketchup it is possible to create circuits of all shapes….
We emulate the TDG series remote controls using the GSM Shield. It’s not been long since we presented our GSM shield for GSM/GPRS modules SIMCom, QUECTEL, FIBOCOM etc. that was born to be incorporated in Arduino-based projects involving cellular connectivity; now it’s time to move on to the first practical application, which in this case…
Motion detector based on the Doppler effect, made by combining a specific sensor with a circuit that amplifies the output signal. Now the devices used in presence and movement detection systems, to be combined with automations for opening doors and turnstiles but also with anti-theft and anti-intrusion systems, stand out passive infrared radars (otherwise called…
It solves the problem of pitch loss that can trouble 3D printers and which, especially in large printers that require many hours to print parts, can mean huge losses of time and money. In previous posts we presented a stepper motor driver, which we named MotorFish, whose special feature is to work in closed loop…
Let’s describe the firmware of the stepper motor feedback controller and test it on the 3D printer. (Read the first post) In the limits of non-retroactive stepper motor control is that in applications for the drive of machines, CNC milling machines or 3D printers, the positioning can be affected by an error that makes it…
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