Efficient LED Blinking for Embedded Systems
Smart hardware design can simplify the embedded software and make it more reliable. Designers use blinking LED signals to indicate different status and for...
SCR-Controlled EHT Power Supply
Presented here is an extra-high-tension (EHT) power supply capable of delivering variable DC voltage from about 100 V to 5 kV with load current...
Transistor Polarity Checker
Presented here is a simple circuit that will help you figure out whether a transistor is npn or pnp type. If the transistor under...
FreeMat: A Free Alternative to MATLAB
FreeMat is an open source numerical computing environment and programming language that is similar to MATLAB and GNU Octave
Dilin Anand
Available under the GPL license,...
In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) Systems: Design challenges and considerations
In-Vehicle Infotainment is a term that defines the entertainment and informative applications that are made available in automobiles. IVI allows display screens in cars...
The New world of Plasma Antennas
Transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves have become an integral part of the present day civilisation. Antenna is an essential device for this process....
Toys Catching up with Robots
Remember the toys we played with when we were young? Small steam-propelled boats, colourful wind-powered toys like windmills and kites, mechanical toys like giant-wheels,...
Hand In Hand With GPS
The global positioning system (GPS) is a satellite-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides various types of information including geographic location, latitude, longitude,...
Countdown to True Wireless Broadband 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5… 4G!
AUGUST 2011: Of late, there appears to be more talk about looters than routers, and amidst burgeoning news about money made and lost, the...
Embedded Internet Systems bricks to build the Internet of things and...
At one time we had to think of Internet connectivity only from the perspective of desktop and laptop computers. Then it went on to...