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EasyEDA over the web

The EasyEDA project seems like an interesting project. They are developing a production quality EDA system, but with a different monitization model. The plan is to offer free, ad-supported, accounts, cheap, ad-free, accounts and premium accounts. The main revenue stream … Continue reading

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Schematics On-line

Over at schematics.com you can find designs and share your designs in an online community. This can be a handy resource for finding reference designs. An interesting detail is the contribution from semi-conductor manufacturers. For instance, NXP are contributing designs … Continue reading

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Arduino Pong

What is the first thing to do when you have video out on your microcontroller? Some say Tetris, other say Pong. I won’t lie – it’s unlikely your daughter will be giving up her Nintendo DS, and this isn’t going … Continue reading

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Facial Recognition using RPi

The Raspberry Pi blog just mentioned Pierre Raufast‘s experiments with OpenCV and the RPi camera module. He achieves facial recognition with multiple targets at ~8fps, which is kind of impressive given the limited processing power of the Raspberry Pi. All the … Continue reading

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ATX RasPi

The people behind lowpowerlab has come up with a nice solution to switching your Raspeberry Pi on and off. Using a microcontroller and letting it communicate with the Pi over GPIO, the power supply is kept in sync with the … Continue reading

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ESD Safety

Or, you can read up on Wikipedia.

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ZX81 using AVR

Jörg Wolfram has re-created the ZX81 system using an ATMega AVR MCU. The system uses a PS2 keyboard, NTCS (or VGA/LCD) for graphics and an SD-card instead of a tape. Looks like a great recreation of the past. The curious … Continue reading

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Final Out-Sourcing Posts

Andrew “bunnie” Huang has posted his final posts in his The Factory Floor series on out-sourcing production to China. Read the first two parts here and here. The final two parts, Industrial Design for Startups and Picking (and Maintaining) a Partner, bring … Continue reading

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Outsourcing – Design for Manufacturing

Bunnie has released part 2 of his series on outsourcing production. This time the topic is Design for Manufacturing.

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Schematics

Over at www.electronicsproject.org you will find a broad selection of circuit schematics. Examples range for various amplifier circuits, power supplies, game circuits (remember the steady-hand-game) and more. Well worth a visit!

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