Build an Advent Calendar with Raspberry Pi Ruler Gadget

In my series of articles about My journey into the Cloud I used the ESP32 Pico Kit hardware to send sensor measurement data to various cloud platforms. Using the same platform this review shows how environmental measurements can be made and displayed via openSenseMaps for anyone to view...

The Chinese company Seeed Studio offers a lot of interesting things for electronics enthusiasts. Along with selling products from various manufacturers, Seeed develops and produces their own products, many of which are very innovative. Seeed has also developed their own miniature soldering iron, which is now available in a European version.

Velleman's CS400 is the flagship model in their range of four metal detectors. When I got the chance to try out, I didn’t think twice - after all, I live quite close to where there are the ruins of an old castle, an ideal hunting ground for buried treasure — or so I thought...

Pixy2 is an artificial vision sensor for rapid recognition of moving shapes and colours. It follows objects at a rate of 60 images per second and has algorithms for recognition of shapes and colours. To better follow moving objects, it may be mounted (as an option) on a pan-tilt support, and control the vertical and horizontal movements itself.

An honorary mention has been awarded to Cocktail Joe, an affable robotic barman with a light show, at the electronica Fast Forward contest. All through 2018, startup enterprises created by brilliant electronic engineers, have strived in the hope of winning their share of a €150,000 total prize pool. Congratulations to all the finalists, whom you can see in this video of the awards ceremony at Munich.

In an interview with Jan Buiting, Eben Upton explains: “If you can make a device that will withstand a child’s bedroom, it will certainly withstand a factory!” […]. When those who have bought their first RPi for their own edification, at home, then taking it into their professional lives, they have to explain to their colleagues that this board, seen as a toy, is more reliable than a lot of devices that claim to be industrial.”

Elektor LABS proudly present a kit to help you assemble your VFD-tube Clock from the article published half a year ago. You’ll build it within about 4 hours, pre-cut acrylic sheet case included, using normal soldering tools and any computer with Arduino IDE. To keep the time synchronised our new VFD-tube clock employs an NTP server. Besides time, it also displays date and temperature in several display formats. Various sensors are supported. The RGB background lighting is user configurable (with a wireless Android app).

Microchip announces, through its Microsemi Corporation subsidiary, the first Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for 10G Passive Optical Network (PON) Optical Line Terminal (OLT) implementation in compact form factor. The new PolarFire FPGA Burst Mode Receiver (BMR) solution is also the only offering of its kind to enable 10G PON solutions in Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) and 10 Gb SFP (XFP) footprints.

Aiwanger: “Inventiveness is Bavarian"

Microchip announces a new family of single-chip maXTouch® touchscreen controllers designed to address challenges in the design of modern automotive capacitive touch systems with screens up to 20 inches in size.

Microchip, via its Microsemi Corporation subsidiary, announces an extension to its Mi-V ecosystem by unveiling the architecture for a new class of SoC FPGAs at the RISC-V Summit, Dec. 4 to 5, 2018. The new family combines the industry’s lowest power mid-range PolarFire™ FPGA family with a complete microprocessor subsystem based on the open, royalty-free RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA).