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My new third hand
I recently brought from Banggood a support for having a third hand during soldering operations… the support is made by an aluminum base and three arms which end with a crocodile clamp with insulating sheath: The assembly is
Read More »First look at JQ6500 modules
For some time, on different chinese webstores (for example Banggood) there is a module called JQ6500 for sale: it’s often described as a voice sound module or as an MP3 player sound module. Actually JQ6500 is the name
Read More »WGX iBeacons
In a recent tutorial I explained how to detect the presence of an iBeacon with the esp32 chip. The iBeacon used to demonstrate the program is manufactured by a chinese Company, Wellcore, and sold by Banggood. The transmitter
Read More »MegunoLink
In some blog post, I’ve already show how to receive data from Arduino and display them on a chart using .Net applications, PHP or JavaScript scripts. Some friends wrote comments suggesting me to try MegunoLink tool
Read More »Stepper kit for Arduino
I was looking for a cheap solution to add a motor to my Arduino and I found a kit that includes an unipolar stepper motor and the driver board
Read More »Lipo Fuel Gauge
In my recent review about the Li-po Rider module, I wrote that a little problem was the absence of a chip that could monitor the state of charge (SoC) of the connected battery. You can find several IC
Read More »Li-po Rider
I’m working on a project that will be powered by a Li-Po battery, so I was looking for a power module that was able to charge the battery and to supply 5V to my circuit. Seeed Studio
Read More »mbed NXP LPC11U24, review
Farnell kindly offered me to test and review the new microcontroller in mbed family, the NXP LPC11U24. mbed microcontrollers are designed for rapid prototyping: Since a few weeks, the new model NXP LPC11U24 is available
Read More »Bluegiga WT11 – Review
Thanks to Farnell, I was able to test the Bluegiga WT11 bluetooth module. The module, which is Bluetooth 2.1 compliant, contains three main elements: The power transmission – it’s a class 1 device – is 17dBm that corresponds to
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