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This is a submission from Distrelec about their collaboration with world-renowned developer of the world’s first open-source electronic prototyping platform Arduino. Distrelec will be the exclusive distributor of their exciting IoT Prime Bundle.

Useful circuits can be as simple as a paper clip. Here is such a circuit. It can be so simple because all the complicated and hard stuff has all been integrated into a single IC by a clever semiconductor manufacturer. Plunk the chip on a little printed circuit board, add connectors, and you're in business. Motor driving business in this case. Hook it up to a DC motor and let her rip.

Sometimes a project is given such a name that you (read: me!) do not immediately know what it represents or what it does, an ‘Earth Listener’ for example. The description of the product, however, makes things much clearer: ‘The Earth Listener from Velleman is an Arduino-based sensor module that can measure multiple environmental variables in order to indicate the air quality’.

Elektor software developer and lab worker Mathias Claußen was tasked to develop a control for the FM radio on the Raspberry Pi [1] using a touch screen. The platform-independent (GUI) framework Qt has almost become the go-to industry standard to build such interfaces, so the choice was clear. For any developers out there facing similar challenges, Mathias has put together a manual that shows how set up a cross-compiler environment on a PC to allow you to compile Qt applications for the Raspberry Pi from a PC — he also includes a simple demo of course.