A Toolbox for Audio Lovers and Engineers
Without any ambition to reach scientific levels, this book aims to be a toolbox for both audio lovers and high-end equipment designers. The elementary theory presented is the bare minimum for readers to grasp the operation and practical use of electrical, electromagnetic, physics, and electronic operations available in the designers’ toolbox. Each tool is explained in a minimum of words and theory without needless coverage of underlying equations or figures.
The book chapters guide you through the process of designing quality amplifiers with vacuum tubes, from the very beginning, considering both technical and subjective requirements – in theory and practice.
The book is a compilation of the author’s notes used in his professional and educational career but was nevertheless primarily written as a result of true love for the audiophile hobby.
Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 Sense integrates a camera sensor, digital microphone, and SD card support. Combining embedded ML computing power and photography capability, this development board can be your great tool to get started with intelligent voice and vision AI. Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 Sense is built around a highly-integrated, Xtensa processor ESP32-S3R8 SoC, which supports 2.4 GHz WiFi and low-power Bluetooth BLE 5.0 dual-mode for multiple wireless applications. It has lithium battery charge management capability. As the advanced version of Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3, this board comes with a plug-in OV2640 camera sensor for displaying full 1600x1200 resolution. The base of it is even compatible with OV5640 for supporting up to 2592x1944 resolution. The digital microphone is also carried with the board for voice sensing and audio recognition. SenseCraft AI provides various pre-trained Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and no-code deployment to XIAO ESP32S3 Sense. With powerful SoC and built-in sensors, this development board has 8 MB PSRAM and 8 MB Flash on the chip, an additional SD card slot for supporting up to 32 GB FAT memory. These allow the board for more programming space and bring even more possibilities into embedded ML scenarios. Features Powerful MCU Board: Incorporate the ESP32S3 32-bit, dual-core, Xtensa processor chip operating up to 240 MHz, mounted multiple development ports, Arduino/MicroPython supported Advanced Functionality: with OV5640 camera sensor, integrating additional digital microphone Great Memory for more Possibilities: Offer 8 MB PSRAM and 8 MB Flash, supporting SD card slot for external 32 GB FAT memory Outstanding RF performance: Support 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and BLE dual wireless communication, support 100m+ remote communication when connected with U.FL antenna Thumb-sized Compact Design: 21 x 17.5 mm, adopting the classic form factor of XIAO, suitable for space-limited projects like wearable devices Pretrained Al model from SenseCraft Al for no-code deployment Applications Image processing Speech Recognition Video Monitoring Wearable devices Smart Homes Health monitoring Education Low-Power (LP) networking Rapid prototyping Specifications Processor ESP32-S3R8 Xtensa LX7 dual-core, 32-bit processor that operates at up to 240 MHz Wireless Complete 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi subsystem BLE: Bluetooth 5.0, Bluetooth mesh Built-in Sensors oV2640 camera sensor for 1600x1200 Digital Microphone Memory On-chip 8 MB PSRAM & 8 MB Flash Onboard SD Card Slot, supporting 32 GB FAT lnterface 1x UART, 1x I²C, 1x I²S, 1x SPI, 11x GPIOs (PWM), 9x ADC, 1x User LED, 1x Charge LED, 1x B2B Connector (with 2 additional GPIOs) 1x Reset button, 1x Boot button Dimensions 21 x 17.5 x 15 mm (with expansion board) Power Input voltage (Type-C): 5 V lnput voltage (BAT): 4.2 V Circuit operating Voltage (ready to operate): - Type-C: 5 V @ 38.3 mA - BAT: 3.8 V @ 43.2 mA (with expansion board) Webcam Web application: Type-C: - Average power consumption: 5 V/138 mA - Photo moment: 5 V/341 mA Battery: - Average power consumption: 3.8 V/154 mA - Photo moment: 3.8 V/304 mA Microphone recording & SD card writing: Type-C: - Average power consumption: 5 V/46.5 mA - Peak power consumption: 5 V/89.6 mA Battery: - Average power consumption: 3.8 V/54.4 mA - Peak power consumption: 3.8 V/108 mA Charging battery current: 100 mA Low Power Consumption Model (Supply Power: 3.8 V) Modem Sleep Model: ~44 mA Light Sleep Model: ~5 mA Deep Sleep Model: ~3 mA Wi-Fi Enabled Power Consumption Active Model: ~ 110 mA (with expansion board) BLE Enabled Power Consumption Active Model: ~ 102 mA (with expansion board) Included 1x XIAO ESP32S3 1x Plug-in camera sensor board 1x Antenna Downloads GitHub
Specifications Lens diameter: 90 mm / 3.54' Dioptre: lens Ø 90 mm: dioptre 3 – magnification: 1.75 Power supply: 3 x 1.5 V AAA battery Dimensions: 210 x 170 x 110 mm / 8.3 x 6.7 x 4.3' Weight: 615 g Material: Stand: stainless steel Lens: glass Connecting parts: copper
Recently, the development of a tiny chip called the ESP8266 has made it possible to interface any type of microcontroller to a Wi-Fi AP. The ESP8266 is a low-cost tiny Wi-Fi chip having fully built-in TCP/IP stack and a 32-bit microcontroller unit. This chip, produced by Shanghai based Chinese manufacturer Espressif System, is IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi compatible with on-chip program and data memory, and general purpose input-output ports. Several manufacturers have incorporated the ESP8266 chip in their hardware products (e.g. ESP-xx, NodeMCU etc) and offer these products as a means of connecting a microcontroller system such as the Android, PIC microcontroller or others to a Wi-Fi. The ESP8266 is a low-power chip and costs only a few Dollars.
ESP8266 and MicroPython – Coding Cool Stuff is an introduction to the ESP8266 chip and describes the features of this chip and shows how various firmware and programming languages such as the MicroPython can be uploaded to the chip. The main aim of the book is to teach the readers how to use the MicroPython programming language on ESP8266 based hardware, especially on the NodeMCU.
Several interesting and useful projects are given in the e-book (pdf) to show how to use the MicroPython in NodeMCU type ESP8266 hardware:
Project “What shall I wear today?”: You will be developing a weather information system using a NodeMCU development board together with a Text-to-Speech processor module.
Project “The Temperature and Humidity on the Cloud”: You will be developing a system that will get the ambient temperature and humidity using a sensor and then store this data on the cloud so that it can be accessed from anywhere.
Project “Remote Web Based Control”: You will be developing a system that will remotely control two LEDs connected to a NodeMCU development board using an HTTP Web Server application.
Architecture, Programming and Applications
The MSP430 is a popular family of microcontrollers from Texas Instruments. In this book we will work with the smallest type, which is the powerful MSP430G2553. We will look at the capabilities of this microcontroller in detail, as it is well-suited for self-made projects because it is available in a P-DIP20 package.
We will take a closer look at the microcontroller and then build, step by step, some interesting applications, including a 'Hello World' blinking LED and a nice clock application, which can calculate the day of the week based on the date.
You also will learn how to create code for the MSP microcontroller in assembler. In addition to that, we will work with the MSP-Arduino IDE, which makes it quite easy to create fast applications without special in-depth knowledge of the microcontrollers.
All the code used in the book is available for download from the Elektor website.
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STM32 Wireless Innovation Design Contest Winners
In-Circuit LC MeterA Prototype Study
The AmpVolt Modular DC Power Meter (Part 1)Measure DC Power and Energy Consumption Up to 50 V and 5 A
embedded world 2024
Repairing Electronic EquipmentTools, Techniques and Tips
Starting Out in Electronics…...Continues the Opamp Theory
A Simple DDS Signal GeneratorDirect Digital Synthesis in Its Purest Form
Sparkplug at a GlanceA Specification for MQTT Data
The CRTCPeculiar Parts, the Series
Radar-Controlled LightingAutomatic Stairway Light With Human Presence Detection
Digital Bubble Level and Active Stroboscopic Disc for TurntablesFine-Tune Your Record Player With This All-In-One Tool
Open Source and Its Significance for the Electronics Industry (2)
M12 Circular Connector With A-codingFirst Choice for Industrial Applications
The Arduino-Inside Measurement LabAn 8-in-1 Test & Measurement Instrument for the Electronics Workbench
Sound Card Performs Gain/Phase and Impedance AnalysisFor Frequencies From 100 Hz to 90 kHz
Measuring pH Value With the Arduino UNO R4Check the Quality of Your Water
From Life’s ExperiencePangpong Butt Launcher
FNIRSI 1014D Digital Storage OscilloscopeGood Performance for Tight Budgets
2024: An AI OdysseyGetting Object Detection Up and Running
10 MHz Reference GeneratorHighly Accurate, With Distributor and Galvanic Isolation
Project Update #2: ESP32-Based Energy MeterSome Enhancements
Err-lectronicsCorrections, Updates, and Readers’ Letters
An Interview with Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry PiRaspberry Pi 5 and Beyond
Features Build in USB to Serial interface Build-in PCB antenna Powered by Pineseed BL602 SoC using Pinenut model: 12S stamp 2 MB Flash USB-C connection Suitable to breadboard BIY project On board three color LEDs output Dimensions: 25.4 x 44.0 mm Note: USB cable is not included.
The RedBoard Artemis has the improved power conditioning and USB to serial that we've refined over the years on our RedBoard line of products. A modern USB-C connector makes programming easy. A Qwiic connector makes I²C easy. The RedBoard Artemis is fully compatible with SparkFun's Arduino core and can be programmed easily under the Arduino IDE. We've exposed the JTAG connector for more advanced users who prefer to use professional tools' power and speed. We've added a digital MEMS microphone for folks wanting to experiment with always-on voice commands with TensorFlow and machine learning. We've even added a convenient jumper to measure current consumption for low power testing. With 1MB flash and 384k RAM, you'll have plenty of room for your sketches. The on-board Artemis module runs at 48MHz with a 96MHz turbo mode available and with Bluetooth to boot! Features Arduino Uno R3 Footprint 1M Flash / 384k RAM 48MHz / 96MHz turbo available 24 GPIO - all interrupt capable 21 PWM channels Built-in BLE radio 10 ADC channels with 14-bit precision 2 UARTs 6 I²C buses 4 SPI buses PDM Interface I²S Interface Qwiic Connector
High-quality ABS construction Removable side panels and lid for easy access to GPIO, camera and display connectors Light pipes for power and activity LEDs Extraordinarily handsome Colour: white/red
High-quality ABS construction Removable side panels and lid for easy access to GPIO, camera and display connectors Light pipes for power and activity LEDs Extraordinarily handsome Colour: black/grey
From Theory to Practical Applications in Wireless Energy Transfer and Harvesting
Wireless power transmission has gained significant global interest, particularly with the rise of electric vehicles and the Internet of Things (IoT). It’s a technology that allows the transfer of electricity without physical connections, offering solutions for everything from powering small devices over short distances to long-range energy transmission for more complex systems.
Wireless Power Design provides a balanced mix of theoretical knowledge and practical insights, helping you explore the potential of wireless energy transfer and harvesting technologies. The book presents a series of hands-on projects that cover various aspects of wireless power systems, each accompanied by detailed explanations and parameter listings.
The following five projects guide you through key areas of wireless power:
Project 1: Wireless Powering of Advanced IoT Devices
Project 2: Wireless Powered Devices on the Frontline – The Future and Challenges
Project 3: Wireless Powering of Devices Using Inductive Technology
Project 4: Wireless Power Transmission for IoT Devices
Project 5: Charging Robot Crawler Inside the Pipeline
These projects explore different aspects of wireless power, from inductive charging to wireless energy transmission, offering practical solutions for real-world applications. The book includes projects that use simulation tools like CST Microwave Studio and Keysight ADS for design and analysis, with a focus on practical design considerations and real-world implementation techniques.
The Controller Area Network (CAN) was originally developed to be used as a vehicle data bus system in passenger cars. Today, CAN controllers are available from over 20 manufacturers, and CAN is finding applications in other fields, such as medical, aerospace, process control, automation, and so on.
This book is written for students, for practising engineers, for hobbyists, and for everyone else who may be interested to learn more about the CAN bus and its applications.
The aim of this book is to teach you the basic principles of CAN networks and in addition the development of microcontroller based projects using the CAN bus. In summary, this book enables the reader to:
Learn the theory of the CAN bus used in automotive industry
Learn the principles, operation, and programming of microcontrollers
Design complete microcontroller based projects using the C language
Develop complete real CAN bus projects using microcontrollers
Learn the principles of OBD systems used to debug vehicle electronics
You will learn how to design microcontroller based CAN bus nodes, build a CAN bus, develop high-level programs, and then exchange data in real-time over the bus. You will also learn how to build microcontroller hardware and interface it to LEDs, LCDs, and A/D converters.
The book assumes that the reader has some knowledge on basic electronics. Knowledge of the C programming language will be useful in later chapters of the book, and familiarity with at least one member of the PIC series of microcontrollers will be an advantage, especially if the reader intends to develop microcontroller based projects using the CAN bus.
Based on PIC microcontrollers and Arduino
Every mobile phone includes a GSM/GPRS modem which enables the phone to communicate with the external world. With the help of the GSM modems, users can establish audio conversations and send and receive SMS text messages. In addition, the GPRS modem enables users to connect to the internet and to send and receive large files such as pictures and video over the internet.
This book is aimed for the people who may want to learn how to use the GSM/GPRS modems in microcontroller based projects. Two types of popular microcontroller families are considered in the e-book: PIC microcontrollers, and the Arduino. The highly popular mid-performance PIC18F87J50 microcontroller is used in PIC based projects together with a GSM Click board. In addition, the SIM900 GSM/GPRS shield is used with the Arduino Uno projects. Both GSM and GPRS based projects are included in the e-book.
The book will enable you to control equipment remotely by sending SMS messages from your mobile phone to the microcontroller, send the ambient temperature readings from the microcontroller to a mobile phone as SMS messages, use the GPRS commands to access the internet from a microcontroller, send temperature readings to the cloud using UDP and TCP protocols and so on.
It is assumed that the reader has some basic working knowledge of the C language and the use of microcontrollers in simple projects. Although not necessary, knowledge of at least one member of the PIC microcontroller family and the Arduino Uno will be an advantage. It will also be useful if the user has some knowledge of basic electronics.
Contents Basic principles A connector is an electromechanical system that provides a separable connection between two subsystems of an electronic device without an unacceptable effect on the performance of the device. It will be shown that there are a lot of complex parameters to handle properly to make this statement true. Design / Selection / Assembly This chapter provides an overview of design and material requirements for contact finishes, contact springs and connector housings as well as the major degradation mechanisms for these connector components. To complete this chapter, material selection criteria for each will also be reviewed. Additionally the Level of Interconnection (LOI) was integrated into this chapter as it addresses, where the connector is used within an electronic system and therefore influences the requirements and durability of the connector depending on its use. Applications This chapter is heading to the practical work and shows how customers use connectors in their applications to offer some possibilities and to ease your daily work. Additionally it contains some special topics like tin-whisker or impedance of ZIF cable to offer you extended background knowledge.
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For Eyes and Ears
Video Output with Microcontrollers (1)Composite Video
electronica 2022News from the world’s leading electronics trade show
ESP32 CameraSo Simple, It Doesn’t Even Have to Use Wi-Fi
ATX Power Supply for Raspberry Pi
32 Ω Headphone AmplifierSimple But High-Quality 3-Chip Solution
SDR Radio-Controlled clocksFive Time Signals, Six Displays
Starting Out in ElectronicsSpecial Diodes
From Life's ExperienceMusings on the Quality of Things
Reverse-Engineering a Bluetooth Low Energy LED BadgeHow to Control a BLE Device with a Python Script
MakePython ESP32 Development KitEverything in a Box
THD Measurement with an Oscilloscope and FFTEasily Calculate the Distortion Factor
All-Seeing MachinesThe Technology Behind Today’s Industrial Vision Systems
Infographics
The Evolution of Voice and Audio Control for Electronic Devices
WEEF 2022 in Review
FFWD electronica 2022 in ReviewInnovators Did Not Fail to Impress
The TubeAn Unusual Tube Amplifier
Biomaterial in Electronics: Ready or Not
Opera Cake Antenna Switch for HackRF OneConnect Up To Eight Antennas To Your SDR
Engineering with Arduino and MoreAn Interview with Author Ashwin Pajankar
LiDAR Precision GaugeMeasure up to 12 Meters
Audio Signals and the ESP32The ESP-ADF Environment in Practice
Elektor Fortissimo-100 Power Amplifier Kit
Using Light for Sound EffectsLDR-Based Voltage-Controlled 24 dB/oct Synthesizer Filter
Elektor High-Power AF AmplifierThe Loudest of Them All!
HomeLab ToursA Volumetric Display Made in Canada
Err-lectronicsCorrections, Updates and Readers’ Letters
Hexadoku
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DIY Solar Energy StorageBuild Your Own Energy Store for a PV Solar Array
Solar Module SimulatorA Solution for Testing and Optimizing MPP Trackers and Inverters
The STM32 Edge AI ContestExplore the new STM32N6 and Compete for a Share of €5,000 in Prizes!
Widening the BandgapWhy There Is So Much Interest in SiC and GaN
Notebook Power BankExtend the Life of Your Aged Laptop
Medical RobotsOvercoming Technical and Regulatory Hurdles
Frost Guard for Fruit Plants With Temperature Data Logger
The Analog ThingThe Arduino of Analog Computing?
Energy Saving Relay DriverSaves 90% of Relay Drive Power
Improving the ET5410A+ DC loadKeep Cool and Be Quiet, Please
electronica 2024 in Review
Electromagnetic CompatibilityEMC in a Nutshell!
Starting Out in Electronics……Filters Actively
Reducing Power Dissipation With Dropping CapacitorsA Clever Use of Capacitive Reactance
The Affordable MCP4725 12-Bit Digital-to-Analog ConverterAn EEPROM Feature Enables Safe Switch-On Behavior
Fnirsi LCR-ST1 Smart LCR SMD Tweezers
Raspberry Pi-Based Private Test & Measurement LabFirst Things First: The ADC
Electronic Load ResistorAn Out-of-the-Box Project
2025: An AI OdysseySome Projects to See in the New Year
AmpVolt v2.0 Project Update100 Amps and Beyond!
Err-lectronicsCorrections, Updates, and Readers’ Letters
Unveiling Ethical TransparencyInsights from Ethics in Electronics’s 2024 Survey
Elektor Audio DSP FX Processor Board (2)Creating Applications
Raspberry Pi 5 provides two four-lane MIPI connectors, each of which can support either a camera or a display. These connectors use the same 22-way, 0.5 mm-pitch “mini” FPC format as the Compute Module Development Kit, and require adapter cables to connect to the 15-way, 1 mm-pitch “standard” format connectors on current Raspbery Pi camera and display products.These mini-to-standard adapter cables for cameras and displays (note that a camera cable should not be used with a display, and vice versa) are available in 200 mm, 300 mm and 500 mm lengths.
Cleaning nozzle drill kit small box containing 10 carbide PCB drills 0.8 mm all with 4 mm shaft.
Ideal for drilling small precision holes in pcb's, plastic or soft metal.
Technology is constantly changing. New microcontrollers become available every year and old ones become redundant. The one thing that has stayed the same is the C programming language used to program these microcontrollers. If you would like to learn this standard language to program microcontrollers, then this book is for you!
ARM microcontrollers are available from a large number of manufacturers. They are 32-bit microcontrollers and usually contain a decent amount of memory and a large number of on-chip peripherals. Although this book concentrates on ARM microcontrollers from Atmel, the C programming language applies equally to other manufacturer’s ARMs as well as other microcontrollers.
Features of this book
Use only free or open source software.
Learn how to download, set up and use free C programming tools.
Start learning the C language to write simple PC programs before tackling embedded programming - no need to buy an embedded system right away!
Start learning to program from the very first chapter with simple programs and slowly build from there.
No programming experience is necessary!
Learn by doing - type and run the example programs and exercises.
Sample programs and exercises can be downloaded from the Internet.
A fun way to learn the C programming language.
Ideal for electronic hobbyists, students and engineers wanting to learn the C programming language in an embedded environment on ARM microcontrollers.
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Raspberry Pi Pico as Spectrum AnalyzerFFTs on a Low-Cost Hardware Basis
±40-V Linear Voltage RegulatorAn Alternative Power Supply for the Fortissimo-100 Power Amplifier… and Others!
MCU Wireless Communication Made FlexibleEEPROM Opens Networking Prospects for Wireless MCUs
€5,000 up for grabs!Join the STM32 Wireless Innovation Design Contest
2023: An AI OdysseyGetting Started with ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter
LoRa, a Swiss Army Knife (1)The LoRa Protocol and Its Advantages
Adjustable Current Sink with Integrated Clock GeneratorTest Power Supplies, Voltage Converters and Batteries
Two New Arduino UNO R4 Boards: Minima and WiFi
Logarithmic PotentiometersThey’re Exponential!
Motor Driver Breakout BoardA BoB for a 5 A DC Motor Driver with a 3×3 mm Size
From Life’s ExperienceHazardous Electronics
Is Cellular the Lowest-Power Option for IoT?LTE-M and NB-IoT Energy Requirements in LPWAN Deployments
Wireless Communication in IoT Systems – Using Arduino MKR ModulesThe Right Board for Wi-Fi, LoRa, and Many More Standards
AC Losses in Magnetic ComponentsAvoid Hot Inductors!
Measurement for Optimal Cloud Deployment
Matter Adoption: What does it take to deploy Matter devices?
YARD Stick OneA Sub-1 GHz Wireless Test Tool
Latching RelaysPeculiar Parts, the Series
PIC O’Clock – In Touch with TimeDesigning an SDR Time Signal Receiver
Due Diligence DirectiveBusiness as Usual Will Not Do
Starting Out in Electronics……Voltage Amplification
Infrasound Recorder with the Arduino Pro MiniA Sample Project from Elektor’s “Arduino & Co.” Book
Cloud-Based Energy MeterWith ESP32 Module and PZEM-004T Voltage/Current Sensor
A Bare-Metal Programming Guide (Part 2)Accurate Timing, the UART, and Debugging
Hexadoku
With the help of the Grove I²C connector, only 2 signal pins and 2 power pins are needed. You don't even need to care about how to connect these pins. Just plug it into the I²C interface on Seeeduino or Arduino/Raspberry Pi+baseshield via the Grove cable.
No complicated wiring, no soldering, no need to worry about burning the LCD caused by the wrong current limiting resistor. Easy peasy.
Specifications
Battery: Exclude
Input Voltage: 5 V
Dimensions: 83 x 44 x 13 mm
Weight: 42 g
Third, extended and revised edition with AVR Playground and Elektor Uno R4
Arduino boards have become hugely successful. They are simple to use and inexpensive. This book will not only familiarize you with the world of Arduino but it will also teach you how to program microcontrollers in general. In this book theory is put into practice on an Arduino board using the Arduino programming environment.
Some hardware is developed too: a multi-purpose shield to build some of the experiments from the first 10 chapters on; the AVR Playground, a real Arduino-based microcontroller development board for comfortable application development, and the Elektor Uno R4, an Arduino Uno R3 on steroids.
The author, an Elektor Expert, provides the reader with the basic theoretical knowledge necessary to program any microcontroller: inputs and outputs (analog and digital), interrupts, communication busses (RS-232, SPI, I²C, 1-wire, SMBus, etc.), timers, and much more. The programs and sketches presented in the book show how to use various common electronic components: matrix keyboards, displays (LED, alphanumeric and graphic color LCD), motors, sensors (temperature, pressure, humidity, sound, light, and infrared), rotary encoders, piezo buzzers, pushbuttons, relays, etc. This book will be your first book about microcontrollers with a happy ending!
This book is for you if you are a beginner in microcontrollers, an Arduino user (hobbyist, tinkerer, artist, etc.) wishing to deepen your knowledge,an Electronics Graduate under Undergraduate student or a teacher looking for ideas.
Thanks to Arduino the implementation of the presented concepts is simple and fun. Some of the proposed projects are very original:
Money Game
Misophone (a musical fork)
Car GPS Scrambler
Weather Station
DCF77 Decoder
Illegal Time Transmitter
Infrared Remote Manipulator
Annoying Sound Generator
Italian Horn Alarm
Overheating Detector
PID Controller
Data Logger
SVG File Oscilloscope
6-Channel Voltmeter
All projects and code examples in this book have been tried and tested on an Arduino Uno board. They should also work with the Arduino Mega and every other compatible board that exposes the Arduino shield extension connectors.
Please note
For this book, the author has designed a versatile printed circuit board that can be stacked on an Arduino board. The assembly can be used not only to try out many of the projects presented in this book but also allows for new exercises that in turn provide the opportunity to discover new techniques. Also available is a kit of parts including the PCB and all components. With this kit you can build most of the circuits described in the book and more.
Datasheets Active Components Used (.PDF file):
ATmega328 (Arduino Uno)
ATmega2560 (Arduino Mega 2560)
BC547 (bipolar transistor, chapters 7, 8, 9)
BD139 (bipolar power transistor, chapter 10)
BS170 (N-MOS transistor, chapter 8)
DCF77 (receiver module, chapter 9)
DS18B20 (temperature sensor, chapter 10)
DS18S20 (temperature sensor, chapter 10)
HP03S (pressure sensor, chapter 8)
IRF630 (N-MOS power transistor, chapter 7)
IRF9630 (P-MOS power transistor, chapter 7)
LMC6464 (quad op-amp, chapter 7)
MLX90614 (infrared sensor, chapter 10)
SHT11 (humidity sensor, chapter 8)
TS922 (dual op-amp, chapter 9)
TSOP34836 (infrared receiver, chapter 9)
TSOP1736 (infrared receiver, chapter 9)
MPX4115 (analogue pressure sensor, chapter 11)
MCCOG21605B6W-SPTLYI (I²C LCD, chapter 12)
SST25VF016B (SPI EEPROM, chapter 13)
About the author
Clemens Valens, born in the Netherlands, lives in France since 1997. Manager at Elektor Labs and Webmaster of ElektorLabs, in love with electronics, he develops microcontroller systems for fun, and sometimes for his employer too. Polyglot—he is fluent in C, C++, PASCAL, BASIC and several assembler dialects—Clemens spends most of his time on his computer while his wife, their two children and two cats try to attract his attention (only the cats succeed). Visit the author’s website: www.polyvalens.com.Authentic testimony of Hervé M., one of the first readers of the book:'I almost cried with joy when this book made me understand things in only three sentences that seemed previously completely impenetrable.'
The OWON HDS2102s is a portable 3-in-1 multifunctional tester, which can be used as a 2-ch oscilloscope with a bandwidth of 100 MHz, multimeter and signal generator. It features a high-contrast 3.5-inch color display suitable for outdoor facility maintenance, rapid on-site measurement, automobile maintenance, power detection. etc.Features
Oscilloscope + multimeter + waveform generator, multifunction in one
3.5-inch high-resolution, high-contrast color LCD display, suitable for outdoor use
18650 lithium battery, can work continuously for 3-6 hours
USB Type-C interface, support power bank, support PC software connection
Self-calibration function
SCPI supported, facilitate secondary development
Specifications
Bandwidth
100 MHz
Channels
2-ch Oscilloscope + 1-ch Generator
Sample Rate
500 MSa/s
Acquisition Model
Normal, Peak detect
Record Length
8K
Display
3.5-inch LCD
Waveform Refresh Rate
10,000 wfrms/s
Input Coupling
DC, AC, and Ground
Input Impedance
1 MΩ ±2%, in parallel with 16pF ±10pF
Probe Attenuation Factors
1X,10X,100X,1000X,10000X
Max. input Voltage
400 V (DC+AC, PK-PK, 1MΩ input impedance) (10:1 probe attenuation)
Bandwidth Limit (typical)
20 MHz
Horizontal Scale
2ns/div - 1000s/div, step by 1 - 2 - 5
Vertical Sensitivity
10mV/div - 10V/div
Vertical Resolution
8 bits
Trigger Type
Edge
Trigger Modes
Auto, Normal, single
Automatic Measurement
Frequency, Period, Amplitude, Max, Min, Mean, PK-PK
Cursor Measurement
ΔV, ΔT, ΔT&ΔV between cursors
Communication Interface
USB-C
Multimeter Specifications
Max. Resolution
20,000 counts
Testing Mode
Voltage, Current, Resistance, Capacitance, Diode, and Continuity test
Input Impedance
10 MΩ
Max Input Voltage
AC 750 V, DC 1000 V
Max Input Current
DC: 10 A, AC: 10 A
Diode
0-2 V
Waveform Generator Specifications
Frequency Output
Sine
0.1 Hz - 25 MHz
Square
0.1 Hz - 5MHz
Ramp
0.1 Hz - 1 MHz
Pulse
0.1 Hz - 5 MHz
Arbitrary
0.1 Hz - 5 MHz
Sampling Rate
125 MSa/s
Channel
1-ch
Amplitude Range (high impedance)
20 mVpp - 5 Vpp
Waveform Length
8K
Vertical Resolution
14 bits
Output Impedance
50Ω
Included
1x OWON HDS2102s
1x Power adapter
1x USB cable
1x Passive probes
2x Crocodile clip cable
1x Set of multimeter probes (one red and one black)
1x User manual
1x Probe correction adjustment knife
Downloads
User Manual
Specifications
SCPI Protocol
Quick Guide
Software
ARM Cortex-M Embedded Design from 0 to 1
Hobbyists can mash together amazing functional systems using platforms like Arduino or Raspberry Pi, but it is imperative that engineers and product designers understand the foundational knowledge of embedded design. There are very few resources available that describe the thinking, strategies, and processes to take an idea through hardware design and low-level driver development, and successfully build a complete embedded system. Many engineers end up learning the hard way, or never really learn at all.
ARM processors are essentially ubiquitous in embedded systems. Design engineers building novel devices must understand the fundamentals of these systems and be able to break down large, complicated ideas into manageable pieces. Successful product development means traversing a huge amount of documentation to understand how to accomplish what you need, then put everything together to create a robust system that will reliably operate and be maintainable for years to come.
This book is a case study in embedded design including discussion of the hardware, processor initialization, low‑level driver development, and application interface design for a product. Though we describe this through a specific application of a Cortex-M3 development board, our mission is to help the reader build foundational skills critical to being an excellent product developer. The completed development board is available to maximize the impact of this book, and the working platform that you create can then be used as a base for further development and learning.
The Embedded in Embedded program is about teaching fundamental skill sets to help engineers build a solid foundation of knowledge that can be applied in any design environment. With nearly 20 years of experience in the industry, the author communicates the critical skill development that is demanded by companies and essential to successful design. This book is as much about building a great design process, critical thinking, and even social considerations important to developers as it is about technical hardware and firmware design.
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EiE Software Archive (200 MB)
IAR ARM 8.10.1 (Recommended IDE version to use) (1.2 GB)
IAR ARM 7.20.1 (Optional IDE version to use) (600 MB)