RS stocks the Red Pitaya

When it comes to testing their designs, hacker communities around the world are not usually in a position to splash out mega bucks on expensive test equipment. The Red Pitaya project expands your workbench hack space outwards to include the test equipment. It has a Xilinx Zynq processor with a dual ...

The nanotech company Owlstone, have already been using their Lonestar portable gas analyzers to detect contaminants in crude oil and industrial processes for a number of years. In further developments the sensor has proved useful for detecting signs of digestive diseases and several types of cancers...

Here’s a multi-player (max. 4) version of that nerve-racking game called Wire Loop where contestants have to pass a metal loop around a stretch of purposely warped wire or tubing without touching the ‘track’. First one to finish without setting off the dreaded FAULT!! alarm, wins. Inspired by a circuit from Elektor’s dim analog past we decided to add an Arduino Uno to make it suitable for all you Bitwise People out there.

Just a few additional components are needed to turn a Raspberry Pi into a DC voltmeter capable of reading up to 5 V and displaying the results in color on a monitor. The entire display area can be used, which makes the project an ideal basis for demonstrations, for example in schools.

The ADuCM350 announced by Analog Devices is targeted at wearable health monitoring applications (e.g. smart watches and advanced pedometers) as well as point-of-care diagnostics and self-test health devices. It is a single-chip scalable platform combining a 16-bit analog front-end (AFE) including a ...

Version 2.04 of the EveryCircuit Android App has been released. Written by Igor Vytyaz, EveryCircuit from MuseMaze allows you to quickly model analog or digital test circuits on an Android device using its built-in library of discrete components, opamps and logic gates. Press the play button and ...