LED Ring Distance Sensor
https://youtu.be/-MQ6NP5s1Dc In this project you will learn how to build a LED ring distance sensor using an Arduino board and a distance sensor (HC-SR04). You can also use the final result as a parking sensor. More info
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James Bruton’s 3D-printed, Arduino-powered Nerf blaster fires 10 darts at once
Nerf guns can be a lot of fun, but what if you want your launcher to shoot 10 projectiles simultaneously? Is so, then look no further than James Bruton’s custom blaster. His 3D-printed project employs two BLDC-powered rollers to accelerate cartridges of 10 darts each, and allows for quick reloading via a clever manual…
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Arduino and Raspberry Pi Powered Pet Monitoring System
Recently while on vacation, we realized the lack of connection with our pet Beagle. After some research, we found products that featured a static camera that allowed one to monitor and communicate with one’s pet. These systems had certain benefits but lacked versatility. For example, each room required a unit to keep track…
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Demoboard PIC32MX – ATHENA32
ATHENA32 is an evaluation board designed to allow the user to experiment with a broad range of peripheral of PIC32MX family without the need of additional boards or devices. It has been specifically designed to address the SW development process with Microchip 32-bit line of controllers using Microchip official toolchain (in particular MPLab X, XC32…
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Mercury System Framework 1.0.0 released
The first version (1.0.0) of Mercury System Framework (MSF) has been released. The Mercury System Framework (MSF) is a layered SW framework specifically designed to support application development with Mercury System. It provides to the user a complete set of base functionalities to easily interface MS Slave Boards (SB) and Modem Boards (MB) as well as…
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ATHENA32: The Microchip PIC32MX demo board – Documentation Released
The ATHENA32 is an evaluation board designed to allow the user to experiment with a broad range of peripheral of PIC32MX family without the need of additional boards or devices. It has been specifically designed to address the SW development process with Microchip 32-bit line of controllers using Microchip official toolchain (in particular MPLab X,…
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How to build your Energy Load manager (part 2)
When the instantaneous power consumption exceeds the set values, it selectively disconnects the users, in order to prevent the electric meter to cut the power to disconnect. The management of the electricity users at home, intended as the possibility to define the operating priorities and to momentarily disconnect the ones that may be…
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Energy meter: LOAD management
It enables a selective disconnection of a maximum of 7 users, once the maximum power set is exceeded, and by selecting the priorities, so to disconnect the less important ones first. Supervising the electricity, intended as both the monitoring and the management and even as a possible limitation and optimisation, is a topical issue…
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Energy Meter module to analyze the electrical grid parameters and consumption: the software (part 2)
In the first installment, you had the opportunity of learning about our energy meter, and of learning about its details, with special attention the technical ones. Our energy meter is based on the coupling – by means of two measuring transformers – to an integrated circuit, that enables the detection of the values as…
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Energy Meter module to analyze the electrical grid parameters and consumption (part 1)
Thanks to an innovative module, it analyses the electrical grid parameters and the consumption, by supplying them – via USB – to a computer, on which a dedicated software enables to display, collect and use the data for different applications. First installment. It is common to worry about how much electrical energy is consumed,…
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New Microchip’s Microcontroller Families with Core Independent Peripherals and Intelligent Analog Are Coming
Microchip announced in February two new microcontroller families with “Core Independent Peripherals and Intelligent Analog”: respectively PIC16F18446 family of microcontrollers, and ATmega4809 megaAVR microcontrollers, with the latter to be integrated in the next generation of Arduino boards. “The ATmega4809 has been selected to be the on-board microcontroller of a next-generation Arduino board. The addition of the…
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Spiderin, a four-legs spider robot
THE ROBOT This robot has four legs with two degrees of freedom to obtain totally eight degrees of freedom; this is the minimum requirement to be able to form a shape similar to a spider and also to get acceptable movements. This choice obliges to use a controller for eight independent servomotors and it…
