Space exploration isn’t an easy task, as it requires many high-end technology to keep all the devices functioning well in extreme temperatures and the risk of exposure to radiation. An Electrical engineering researchers from University of Arkansas have successfully designed and tested an electronic micro amplifier, where it claimed can operate normally in the space [...]

Have you ever wondered what it’s going to be, if you combined the Zigbee Radio with a Slug? If you have no idea what is the outcome, then you should develop this SlugBee and feel it for yourself! For your information, Zigbee, where it’s also known as IEEE 802.15.4 is another type of short-range radio [...]

Do you love the retro stuffs? If you did, then you must be very excited with the old display technology, such as the nixie tubes. Although the nixie tubes are cool, but it’s difficult to work with because they require higher voltages than the digital logic did! In other hand, the Vacuum Fluorescent Display (VFD) [...]

For all the home hobbyists, you knew that dealing with microcontrollers is a fun thing. Once you have been hooked with it, there was no turning back. Do you know that a microcontroller’s GPIO (General purpose input/output) pins cannot handle higher power requirements? An LED was easy enough, but how about the large power items [...]

Silicon Graphics Incorporated, the renowned high performance computing specialist has created an advanced concept computer called Molecule. This Molecule using mostly off-the-shelf consumer electronics components and packs them all in 10,000 cores into a single rack. You’ll probably think that this Molecule sounds like a powerhouse, but it’s only a demonstration of how the chips [...]

The microcontrollers are widely used in nowadays electronic and modern devices. You can track them whether on personal use for fun or even for the serious and confidential applications by banks, security services, government authority or military field. Most of the algorithm that uploaded into its memory is well written in Assembler. Many villains out [...]

Looking for compact but flexible, simple and cheap development board? You should consider this nice list of microcontroller USB-Stick tools. These are special development tools that include all necessary hardware and software in a portable USB stick. Most of them consist of two parts – USB stick and attachable target board. For instance eZ430-RF2500 is [...]

Embedded systems that are dealing with DAC require a good voltage references. Despite all voltage references have their nominal values there are specific tolerances that indicates how much values can vary from nominal value. References as a rule are semiconductors that characteristics are effected by temperature. For instance if we decide to use a 2.5V [...]

It’s been ten years when Cornell University Computer Engineering students were publishing their final embedded projects. I always enjoy browsing over that big list of complete projects. You can get some crazy ideas here but also some good lessons that could be helpful while building your own projects.

An embedded system is a type of computer that can perform a few specialised tasks. This design is contrary to the normal computer that is designed to perform a number of operations that are in many cases unrelated to each other. Embedded systems are present in many of the devices that are used today and [...]