ElektorLabs Magazine 5/2018 now on sale -- print or pdf download

Depending on their location, Elektor GOLD members may already have received their copy of ElektorLabs Magazine edition 5/2018 covering September and October. This news item is to announce that the new edition is also available for non-members to purchase. You can either choose to get your copy in print, posted directly to your door completely free of charge, or purchase the digital edition (PDF).

Microchip Technology Inc. announces a flexible dual-mode power monitoring IC that measures both AC and DC modes with industry-leading accuracy of 0.1 percent error across a wide 4000:1 range. Power calculations and event monitoring are included with a single IC, reducing bill of materials cost and firmware development time.

Pico Technology’s 2000 series USB oscilloscopes have a fine “bandwidth” both in terms of “megahertz” and cost: from the £99 10 MHz entry-level 2204A with 8 kS (kilosamples) memory and 100 MS/s sample rate, right up to the 2208B which at £909 ex VAT brings 128 MS depth and 1 GS/s sample rate. Not forgetting MSO functionality.

NeoPixel LEDs are cheap and easy-to-use RGB LEDs, digitally addressable. Example code, libraries and supporting content can be found easily everywhere. In the September-October 2018 issue of Elektor Magazine one can read the extensive description of an ESP8266 web server for NeoPixel LED strips. Both the PCB and the ESP module are available from our online store.

Elektor Business Edition 4/2018 (Automotive) is now available. This issue features articles and interviews on a wide variety of automotive-related topics, including machine vision for auto applications, V2X communications, benchmarking IC development for automotive systems, simulation-driven design for automotive climate systems, and more.

High on the list of bestsellers in Elektor’s book portfolio is Bert van Dam’s t title Explore the Raspberry Pi in 45 Electronics Projects. A new, revised and expanded, edition that also supports RPi model 3B+ is now available.

Phonics will play a key role in fast and energy-efficient communications. Chips that operate with light will be used in, for example, internet data centres, the new 5G mobile standard and countless other applications. However, until now it has not been feasible to fabricate photonics chips in large numbers. The Fraunhofer Project Center at the campus of de University of Twente now presents a machine that can automatically join glass fibres to a photonic chip...

Since 2002, David Henderson has been focused on developing small precision motion technologies that are lower power and less expensive than other products on the market. Today, his company, New Scale Technologies, is pursuing solutions for a wide range of applications, including laboratory automation systems and collaborative robots.

Imec, the renowned Belgian research center has demonstrated a new and cost-effective method of cooling chips at the package level. This technique is a good solution for today’s power-hungry high performance chips...

The Arduino and Raspberry Pi have revolutionized the field of embedded systems design. One area of widespread applicability for both devices has been motor control. But if you would like to learn more about Arduino- and Raspberry Pi-based motor control applications, a quick search on the Internet will only complicate things. You’ll find thousands of motor control projects based on these popular platforms. The problem, of course, is locating high-quality, well-tested motor control projects from reliable sources, which is hard to do because do-it-yourselfers and students are uploading new Arduino and Raspberry Pi-based projects to the Internet each day. Fortunately, Dogan Ibrahim had the foresight to write a comprehensive book on DC motor control designs featuring the Arduino platform and Raspberry Pi Zero W single-board computer (SBC).