Friday Quiz: Transformers and Inductance has an interesting set of questions about the important components in nearly every power supply. Try to answer them and check how many of your answers you get correct. It could show that you have some misconceptions on transformers. You most propably get learning experience from correct answers. →
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Here are two interesting looking ESP8266 projects for controlling mains power: MPDMv3 – WIFI Mains Power Dimmer / Switch – Web Interface Arduino IDE – WIFI MAINS Power Switch – ESP8266 MPSMv2 P3 – WIFI Mains Power Dimmer / Switch with CBDBv2 →
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With the rise of distributed manufacturing of 3D printing, hardware designs released under open source licenses are increasing exponentially. ICT industry knows open source software has an immense value, but how valuable is an open hardware design? It’s true the number of free and open source designs grows, as thousands of people download the files. →
Entries for the 2015 Hackaday Prize — the nine-month design contest that challenges you to build something that matters — closed one week ago today. Accordng to 100 Semifinalists for the 2015 Hackaday Prize article were over 900 entries submitted to competition. A huge set of Open Hardware that has been documented by the process. →
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https://embeddedmicro.com/tutorials/lucid/basic-cpu Planning to make your own CPU with FPGA? Posted from WordPress for Android →
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PLCs have a long and storied history, with Allen-Bradley itself coining the term “programmable logic controller” in 1971 when it introduced its version of what was then called the “programmable controller.” For anyone who cut their teeth on ladder logic can testify, PLCs at the time were an elegantly simple solution to an age-old problem: →