Fast data storage with light

The sudden death of my faithful lab power supply offered a good opportunity to try out the affordable PeakTech PSU 6225 A which has similar current specifications as my deceased PSU (5 A vs. 6 A). The small form factor of this PSU was also a point in its favour.

What's black and contains a whole lot of useful cables and test leads? Well it's the PeakTech P 8200 Measuring Accessories Set. Check out this review to take a closer look at what's inside...

Dragino is a manufacturer of IoT hardware, specialised in Linux IoT/VOIP, Arduino Yùn add-on boards and LoRa modules and gateways. One of their latest products is the LSN50 long-range LoRa sensor node, designed for outdoor use.

Among the many HAT accessories available for the Raspberry Pi, the Uninterruptable Power Supply aptly called PiJuice is a remarkable one. By lifting fundamental limitations, the PiJuice is a very user friendly way to increase the performance of your Pi applications. It allows the use of your Raspberry Pi far from any power adapter, making it more portable than ever.

Not always the case, but here’s a video of unpacking and assembly that’s nice and easy. No fiddly SMD soldering. Everything is shown with the rhythm of an electronicist who gets his kicks with good old fashioned through-hole components. This kit is a dual-purpose pocket test equipment, an affordable frequency counter (1 Hz à 50 MHz) and crystal tester. It has five standard 7-segment displays. Look at the measuring range: 1 Hz to 50 MHz. Especially for this price!

Every time Elektor offers a project using Nixie tubes or VFDs, it’s a success. For a bit of variation, we looked for and found something a bit more exotic. Like this original new project for a clock which uses, for the hour and date, pinball score wheel displays. Guaranteed spectacular! When you watch it, the soundtrack will not go unnoticed either.

Its black box won’t win any beauty contests. Its printing volume is, let’s say, compact. Too compact, some say, but on reflection, in a volume of 115 x 65 x 155 mm you can print quite a few things! The thickness of the layers printed by the Photon is in the order of 10 microns. To distinguish that, you need a good eye…and a good magnifying glass. Also, to find a 3D printer which does more, you’ll pay 5 or 6 times the price of the Photon.

Wizama is scoring big. Less than two months after winning Second Prize in electronica Fast Forward, the Startup Platform Powered by Elektor, the Brittany, France-based game design company has been named an Innovation Award honoree at CES 2019.

More than 1,200 startups are exhibiting this week at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, NV. Elektor is on hand to sift through all the innovation and deliver details about the startups whose technologies are sure to wow the electrical engineers and maker pros among you. ​Let’s review several of the most promising innovators. We’ll follow up in the next few days with information about additional companies and technologies from the show.

Delicacies from Our Man in Munich: productronica Fast Forward 2019, powered by Elektor. Lasercutter by Mr Beam. BMW at UN Climate change conference, Katowice 2018. Apple Pay now in Germany. NXP Cup - Application phase over.

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.