⚒ Converting 3D Printer into PCB Production Machine
A series of videos in which author automated the PCB making process
Convert your 3D Printer into a light duty CNC mill! Author showed engraving, drilling and cutting single sided copper clad board to make a PCB with a Dremel style rotary tool attached to his HyperCube 3D Printer.
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A series of videos in which author automated the PCB making process
Convert your 3D Printer into a light duty CNC mill! Author showed engraving, drilling and cutting single sided copper clad board to make a PCB with a Dremel style rotary tool attached to his HyperCube 3D Printer.
More information:
Part one
Part two
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📡 Top 6 IoT Communication Protocols
The communication protocol is the set of rules for data exchange between electronic devices
ZigBee is attributed with benefits for low power consumption, high scalability, strong security, and durability.
LoRa is known for its capabilities to communicate across long-ranges with the least power consumption. Specially designed to accommodate millions of devices besides supporting low-cost mobile secure communication in IoT, smart city, or industrial applications.
NB-IoT is specifically designed for networks that require low bandwidth to support massive connection density.
Wi-Fi is the most popular for wireless local area network.
Thread is specially designed to address the unique interoperability, security, power, and architecture challenges in the IoT, thread is a low-power wireless mesh networking protocol.
Bluetooth Low Energy supports many-to-many communications simultaneously between all devices in a network for fast and reliable data transmission.
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The communication protocol is the set of rules for data exchange between electronic devices
ZigBee is attributed with benefits for low power consumption, high scalability, strong security, and durability.
LoRa is known for its capabilities to communicate across long-ranges with the least power consumption. Specially designed to accommodate millions of devices besides supporting low-cost mobile secure communication in IoT, smart city, or industrial applications.
NB-IoT is specifically designed for networks that require low bandwidth to support massive connection density.
Wi-Fi is the most popular for wireless local area network.
Thread is specially designed to address the unique interoperability, security, power, and architecture challenges in the IoT, thread is a low-power wireless mesh networking protocol.
Bluetooth Low Energy supports many-to-many communications simultaneously between all devices in a network for fast and reliable data transmission.
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📰 Ansys Just Released Its Free Electronics Desktop Student
Ansys recently announced the release of its industry gold-standard simulators in Ansys Electronics Desktop Student, a free software product available for download to anyone who wants to learn about electronics simulation.
Ansys Electronics Desktop Student offers free access to the industry simulators for work with antenna, RF, microwave, PCB, IC and IC package designs, along with electromechanical devices such as electric motors and generators.
Included software:
▫️ Ansys HFSS is a multipurpose, full-wave 3D electromagnetic simulation software.
▫️ Ansys Maxwell is a 3D electromagnetic simulation solver for electric machines and electromechanical devices.
▫️ Ansys Q3D Extractor calculates the parasitic parameters of resistance, inductance, capacitance and conductance for electronics designs.
▫️ Ansys Icepak is a computational fluid dynamics solver for electronics thermal management.
Download the software...
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Ansys recently announced the release of its industry gold-standard simulators in Ansys Electronics Desktop Student, a free software product available for download to anyone who wants to learn about electronics simulation.
Ansys Electronics Desktop Student offers free access to the industry simulators for work with antenna, RF, microwave, PCB, IC and IC package designs, along with electromechanical devices such as electric motors and generators.
Included software:
▫️ Ansys HFSS is a multipurpose, full-wave 3D electromagnetic simulation software.
▫️ Ansys Maxwell is a 3D electromagnetic simulation solver for electric machines and electromechanical devices.
▫️ Ansys Q3D Extractor calculates the parasitic parameters of resistance, inductance, capacitance and conductance for electronics designs.
▫️ Ansys Icepak is a computational fluid dynamics solver for electronics thermal management.
Download the software...
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📟 Home automation terminal based on Raspberry Pi 4
A project of 3D-printable terminal for a smart house in a cyberpunk style interconnects VOID30 builtin ortholinear keyboard and Home Assistant for getting a stylish interface.
Features:
▫️ Step and STLs available for non-commercial use.
▫️ 7" Touch Screen
▫️ Raspberry Pi 4
▫️ Home assistant loads in kiosk mode
▫️ 5x1 buttons to interact directly with home assistant with physical buttons
▫️ Customizable panels for the front, 3 in the back and a grid for custom attachments
More information...
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A project of 3D-printable terminal for a smart house in a cyberpunk style interconnects VOID30 builtin ortholinear keyboard and Home Assistant for getting a stylish interface.
Features:
▫️ Step and STLs available for non-commercial use.
▫️ 7" Touch Screen
▫️ Raspberry Pi 4
▫️ Home assistant loads in kiosk mode
▫️ 5x1 buttons to interact directly with home assistant with physical buttons
▫️ Customizable panels for the front, 3 in the back and a grid for custom attachments
More information...
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💻 Elk: a tiny JS engine for embedded systems
Elk is a tiny embeddable JavaScript engine that implements a small but usable subset of ES6. It is designed for microcontroller development.
Instead of writing firmware code in C/C++, Elk allows to develop in JavaScript. Another use case is providing customers with a secure, protected scripting environment for product customisation.
Elk features include:
▫️ Cross platform. Works anywhere from 8-bit microcontrollers to 64-bit servers
▫️ Zero dependencies. Builds cleanly by ISO C or ISO C++ compilers
▫️ Easy to embed: just copy elk.c and elk.h to your source tree
▫️ Very small and simple embedding API
▫️ Can call native C/C++ functions from JavaScript and vice versa
▫️ Does not use malloc. Operates with a given memory buffer only
▫️ Small footprint: about 20KB on flash/disk, about 100 bytes RAM for core VM
▫️ No bytecode. Interprets JS code directly
More information...
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Elk is a tiny embeddable JavaScript engine that implements a small but usable subset of ES6. It is designed for microcontroller development.
Instead of writing firmware code in C/C++, Elk allows to develop in JavaScript. Another use case is providing customers with a secure, protected scripting environment for product customisation.
Elk features include:
▫️ Cross platform. Works anywhere from 8-bit microcontrollers to 64-bit servers
▫️ Zero dependencies. Builds cleanly by ISO C or ISO C++ compilers
▫️ Easy to embed: just copy elk.c and elk.h to your source tree
▫️ Very small and simple embedding API
▫️ Can call native C/C++ functions from JavaScript and vice versa
▫️ Does not use malloc. Operates with a given memory buffer only
▫️ Small footprint: about 20KB on flash/disk, about 100 bytes RAM for core VM
▫️ No bytecode. Interprets JS code directly
More information...
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🎚 Seeed XIAO RP2040 Review
The XIAO RP2040 is powered by the RP2040, Raspberry Pi’s own silicon released in January 2021. XIAO RP2040 has the same RAM and storage specifications as the Raspberry Pi Pico, so what makes it different from the Pico is its size. It is noticeably smaller than a Pico.
Four of the pins (A0 to A3) are analog inputs which can be used with analog electronics such as potentiometers. The other GPIO pins also pull extra duties as UART, SPI and I2C, enabling us to connect electronics using these protocols. The pin selection has been carefully curated to ensure that we have everything that we need for most projects.
Specifications:
▫️ CPU: Dual-core ARM Cortex M0+ processor up to 133MHz
▫️ Flash Memory: 2MB
▫️ SRAM: 264KB
▫️ Power: 5V via USB-C
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The XIAO RP2040 is powered by the RP2040, Raspberry Pi’s own silicon released in January 2021. XIAO RP2040 has the same RAM and storage specifications as the Raspberry Pi Pico, so what makes it different from the Pico is its size. It is noticeably smaller than a Pico.
Four of the pins (A0 to A3) are analog inputs which can be used with analog electronics such as potentiometers. The other GPIO pins also pull extra duties as UART, SPI and I2C, enabling us to connect electronics using these protocols. The pin selection has been carefully curated to ensure that we have everything that we need for most projects.
Specifications:
▫️ CPU: Dual-core ARM Cortex M0+ processor up to 133MHz
▫️ Flash Memory: 2MB
▫️ SRAM: 264KB
▫️ Power: 5V via USB-C
More information...
#boards