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CH3330N – SMALL AND CHEAP USB SERIAL CONVERTER IC NEEDS NO CRYSTAL

CH3330N – SMALL AND CHEAP USB-SERIAL CONVERTER IC NEEDS NO CRYSTAL

Recently the hobbyist market has seen the appearance of the Air602 low-cost ARM WiFi module. This module might be a potential competitor of ESP8266, another low-cost powerful WiFi module, that took the electronics hobbyists by storm long ago and is still extremely popular. But what’s more interesting about the Air602 module is the usage of a completely new USB to […]

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3 NEW PRODUCTS FROM PARTICLE.IO IMPROVES IOT DEVELOPMENT

3 NEW PRODUCTS FROM PARTICLE.IO IMPROVES IOT DEVELOPMENT

At Spectra, Particle’s annual conference, they announced three new products designed to improve enterprise-level IoT development. They are bringing IoT to maturity with total development, deployment, and maintenance platform that goes all through to the enterprise level by design. The 3 new products include: The Particle IoT Rules Engine, Particle Workbench, and Particle Mesh SoMs. The Particle IoT Rules Engine is

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NANO SANDWICHES IN ELECTRONICS SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE RISK OF OVERHEATING

NANO-SANDWICHES IN ELECTRONICS SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE RISK OF OVERHEATING

A new study about “Reduction of overheating of 2D materials” published in the Journal of Advanced Materials. The work put behind the study is credited to the researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering. By joining together two-dimensional materials used in nanoelectronic devices between their three-dimensional silicon bases, they formed an ultrathin layer

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Decoding Russian Meteor M2 satellite images in real time 2

Decoding Russian Meteor-M2 satellite images in real time

The Meteor-M N2 is a polar orbiting Russian weather satellite that was launched on July 8, 2014. Its main missions are weather forecasting, climate change monitoring, sea water monitoring/forecasting and space weather analysis/prediction. Meteor-M N2  transmits images using the digital LRPT protocol at around 137.1 MHz with can be received with an RTL-SDR. The chipset of RTL

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Solar harvesting into Li ion battery

Solar harvesting into Li-ion battery

The AEMLION is a 0.8×0.6 inch (20x15mm) PCB with the AEM10941 Solar Harvesting IC from E-peas. It efficiently converts solar energy into Li-ion battery charge, it even works with indoor light. It features 3.3V and 1.8V regulated outputs that are enabled when the battery has useful charge and a low battery warning that informs the user of impending

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