The core idea of USB portable programmable instruments is to provide electronic engineers and enthusiasts with a series of low-cost, portable, network-enabled, programmable, and open source practical tools. The multifunctional USB power supply is the first of its kind and is expected to complement traditional adjustable regulated power supplies.
Maxim's Santa Cruz (MAXREFDES23#) reference design is the world's smallest IO-Link® light sensor compliant with IEC 61131-9. The Santa Cruz has six different types of sensors: ambient light (clear), red, green, blue, infrared, and is also a temperature sensor. The entire design fits onto a 6.5mm x 25mm printed circuit board (PCB).
The hardware is independently completed by the Raspberry Pi microcontroller RP2040, which costs 5 yuan a piece. Just close a trigger design baseboard designed by KiCAD. The software is created using VSCode + GCC + Cmake. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to use it. The firmware is upgraded using the U disk drag-and-drop method that comes with the Raspberry Pi chip.
The current design solution uses an 8-bit ADC chip ADC08100 and a 100M bandwidth front-end analog circuit. In fact, if you want to play, you can improve the indicators and use AD9288 or the domestic alternative MXT2088. One chip has two channels and achieves a 250M sampling rate through rapid alternating sampling.
ESP-Drone can be connected and controlled through Wi-Fi network using mobile APP or game controller. Currently, it supports multiple modes such as self-stabilizing flight, fixed-altitude flight, and fixed-point flight. This solution has a simple hardware structure, clear code structure, supports function expansion, and can be used in STEAM education and other fields.
ODrive is a high-performance FOC servo driver based on STM32. It can drive two brushless motors at the same time. In the early days, it was widely used in the design of 3D printers or homemade CNC lathe electrical systems. The well-known geek James Bruton used it as most of his own To make the core unit of the robot servo drive, Stanford's previous open source 8-degree-of-freedom quadruped robot Doggo also used Odrive as the core driver.
Watchy is a completely open source and customizable e-ink screen watch. It uses ESP32-PICO-D4 as the core, has WiFi and Bluetooth LE connectivity, and is compatible with Arduino, MicroPython and ESP-IDF. The 200x200 pixel resolution e-paper display is clearly visible in bright sunlight and has ultra-low power consumption.
A practical heating table for PCB reflow soldering. It is quite cool. It may be the most beautiful and functional heating table on the market. Parameters: The hardware is based on the ESP32PICO-D4 chip, the input power is 24V/10A, the maximum power is 200W, and the heating temperature is up to 300°C. It has Bluetooth function. If I have time later, I will develop a mobile APP to set the temperature rise curve.
The i.MX RT with Built-in MCU-based solution for voice service is a turnkey hardware and single source software solution for adding voice control.
The MAXREFDES44# subsystem provides a 1-Wire-based reference design for securing a Xilinx system-on-chip (SoC) to protect IP and prevent attached peripheral counterfeiting. The system implements a Public/Private Key 1-Wire ECDSA challenge-response between the SoC and a DS28E35 secure authenticator with on board memory. Boards for purchase, hardware, and firmware design files provide complete system information for rapid prototyping and development.
This single-phase energy meter reference design is used for the measurement and registration of active and reactive energy within a directly connected single-phase two-wire network.
In the open source electromyography project shared here, the author used this product to create a computer game control effect.
All files are open source, including software, hardware and 3D printing shells, and how to make and assemble them are described in detail, especially the EQ equalization filter test and frequency response test are explained in detail. The main control uses RP2040 + TI 24-bit asynchronous stereo audio codec PCM3060 with 96/192kHz sampling rate.
Reflow-Controller is designed to control different types of reflow ovens, hot plates, etc. It's based on the ESP32-S2, so it can be programmed to work with WiFi applications, but it also has an onboard OLED display and three buttons for use as a standalone solution.
Based on the modular IoT framework, NXP provides an IoT use case-specific integrated development experience (IDEx) suite to accelerate IoT system development with pre-integrated, comprehensive and fully documented out-of-the-box IoT system solutions.
Open Book is an open hardware device for reading books in all languages of the world. It includes a large screen and navigation buttons, as well as audio options for accessibility and ports to expand its functionality. Its fine screen printing aims to demystify Open Book's own design, breaking down for curious readers how the book works and how they can create one for themselves.
Maxim Integrated's MAXREFDES37# reference design is a fully IO-Link ver1.1 compliant, four-channel servo driver using a TMG TE IO-Link device stack. The system contains an IO-Link device transceiver, a low-power RL78 processor, and efficient industrial step-down DC-DC converter. The MAXREFDES37# comes preprogrammed and ready to connect with any compliant IO-Link master such as the MAXREFDES79# IO-Link master with a simple-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) program. Design files including schematic, PCB, BOM, and IODD firmware files are available for download.
Have you ever wanted to install a security camera in your home, garden or office? Although commercial Wi-Fi security cameras on the market are not expensive, if you want to install multiple ones in different scenes or rooms, it will cost a lot of money. Young engineer Max can develop a wireless security camera based on Espressif's ESP32 chip with only $15.
The author noticed that the AC line frequency changes in spans of 0.4 Hz and periods of several minutes, so I wanted to examine long-term changes in AC line frequency and voltage. This is a project to build a line voltage frequency monitor. It is not a complete instrument but a simple measurement adapter designed to be embedded in some measurement system with a PC or microcontroller.
Plant Bot is an open source project based on ESP32 that allows a single PCB to perform the functions of detecting humidity, watering, providing lighting, and controlling and communicating with the user via WiFi/BLE.