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PIC16F628A Programmable Digital Timer

PIC16F628A Programmable Digital Timer

Programmable relays find use in numerous automation applications such as automatic street light control, watering and pump control, HVAC, home automation, power plants automation in industries, etc. This article describes how to build a fully functional, one-channel programmable relay switch using the PIC16F628A microcontroller. It allows you to set both ON and OFF time. The

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Get your morning update with Beam

Get your morning update with Beam

You wake up in the morning. You’re groggy. You grab your phone lazily and start browsing. You check the weather, your stocks, your instagram. Before you know it, you’re running late! Do your mornings look like this too? We’ve been there! We wanted to streamline our mornings so we built a morning feed so that we can

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ESP8266 10 Base T Ethernet Driver

ESP8266 10-Base-T Ethernet Driver

Overall Discussion This is a relatively unreliable and coincidentally functional ESP8266 Ethernet driver. It only uses two pins on the ESP, the I2S pins, but does provide Ethernet. It does all its own manchester encoding/decoding, framing, FCS, etc. It mimics the ENC424J600 stack found in avrcraft and borrows the IP, ARP, UDP and TCP stacks

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PIC16F1787

New Intelligent Analog Solutions – Enabling Efficient Lighting, Motor Control and Power Conversion – PIC 16F1787

Features Enhanced Mid-Range Core with 49 Instruction, 16 Stack Levels Flash Program Memory with self read/write capability 256 Bytes of EEPROM Internal 32MHz oscillator 3 x PSMC (Programmable Switch Mode Controller)- Dedicated 16bit PWM- Digital and/or analog feedback control of PWM frequency- Dead-band control / auto-shutdown & restart 4 x Fast Comparators with selectable Voltage

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Flexible haptic actuators designed for wearable devices

Flexible haptic actuators designed for wearable devices

Kemet and Novasentis, developer of haptic and sensory feedback technology for wearable devices, have announced a collaboration to develop next generation Electro-Mechanical Polymer (EMP) film based haptic actuators for wearable devices. Novasentis will provide the core technology and haptic actuator film whereas Kemet will develop the manufacturing process for the final assembly. Production prototype delivery

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Configurable Logic Cell

Core Independent Peripherals – Simplify Your Design While Reducing Processor Overhead

Core Independent Peripherals The following Core Independent Peripherals take 8-bit MCU performance to a new level, while requiring no processor overhead. Configurable Logic Cell (CLC) The CLC provides programmable combinational and sequential logic. It also enables the on-chip interconnection of peripherals and I/O, thereby reducing external components, saving code space and adding functionality. Features User-configurable

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Linear Bench Power Supply

Linear Bench Power Supply

DETAILED DESCRIPTION This project is a simple linear bench power supply with adjustable voltage and current. It is meant to be a learning experience, putting ideas of circuit design, feedback, stability into practice building a complete practical power supply. I have intentionally avoided using a 3 terminal regulator or purpose built chip and instead implemented

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