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We are offering 10% discount on our major products including Easy Pulse sensor sensor series, all MAX7219-based serial LED displays, and RGB matrix panel with driver shield, during Black Friday (Nov 25, 2016) through Cyber Monday (Nov 28, 2016). Visit our Tindie store for details of our products. Use discount code 3F3A209 at checkout.
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Microchip provides an application note describing a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) enabled pedometer example that uses an MSP430F5229 reference pedometer design is a portable electronic device that uses PIC16LF1718, a cost effective 8-bit microcontroller with extreme low power (XLP), the Microchip RN4020 Bluetooth 4.1 Low Energy Module, and the Bosch Sensortec BMA250E digital triaxial accelerometer. The pedometer can be worn on the wrist like a bracelet/watch and the on-board RN4020 BLE module allows the pedometer demo to communicate with a smartphone or tablet on which the user’s exercise progress can be tracked. The pedometer demo is powered by a single 3V coin lithium battery (CR2032). The Microchip pedometer demo uses
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Silicon Labs introduces BGM12x, the industry’s smallest Bluetooth low-energy SiP module with an integrated antenna, offering a complete, cost-effective connectivity solution with no compromises in performance. Available in a tiny 6.5 mm x 6.5 mm package, the BGM12x Blue Gecko SiP module enables developers to miniaturize IoT designs by minimizing the PCB footprint including the antenna clearance area to 51 mm2 . Applications for this ultra-small, high-performance Bluetooth module include sports and fitness wearables, smartwatches, personal medical devices, wireless sensor nodes and other space-constrained connected devices. BGM12x Features Overview: Best-in-class SiP module size: 6.5 mm x 6.5 mm x 1.5 mm
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Dtto, a modular self-reconfigurable robot, is the grand prize winner of the 2016 Hackday contest. Dtto’s design is focused on all-terrain search and rescue operations using bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms. The Dtto Modular Robot has been designed with adaptability in mind. Inspired by how fire antscolonies work, a number of modules (or small robots) find each other, connect mechanically and colaborate to act as one only robot, creating a collective inteligence. They can link together and bulid structures without any central comand. The advantatge of being all modules the same is that, if one of them breaks, it can easily get
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This simple ATTiny 2313-based USB media controller design from Rupert Hirst lets you add an external volume and mute control to your PC. It uses V-USB, a software implementation of a USB 1.1 compliant for lower end AVR microcontrollers that do not natively support USB. I chose to go with the Zener 3V6 (3.6volts) diode approach to keep the Micro power rails at 5volts as I have in most of my experiments.The specification of the 3V6 type Zener is very important to the design, the total power consumption of the part must be no more than 500mw (0.5w)! due to extra capacitance on the USB -DATA and +DATA
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