Archive for March 2025

European alternatives

An expert has seen a huge change in just a few months: Concerns about Finnish data have exploded, thanks to Musk and Trump. Trust in the US is eroding: Companies are looking for European alternatives to Amazon, Microsoft and Google President Donald Trump’s administration in the United States has shown in a short time that

Networking trends 2025

Ethernet recently celebrated its 50th anniversary as the most widely deployed technology for enterprise network connectivity. Ethernet switches: 2024 was a difficult year for Ethernet Campus Switch sales, with a 20 percent contraction compared to record revenues in 2023. The market is expected to rebound in 2025 and beyond, fueled by refresh cycles and Wi-Fi

20 years of Arduino

Today is Arduino Day, and it also happens to be Arduino’s 20th anniversary. Videos: https://youtu.be/FMcchyyTR4Y?si=oMr8BgGn1rXxv0yZ https://www.youtube.com/live/4uCY7vdctTE?si=a__JQJ8_vIEZapNy More: https://www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/70960527/arduino-at-embedded-world-2025-20-years-building-partnerships-and-disrupting-tech?publisherId=58763726&lang=en https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/industrial/boards/article/55276354/electronic-design-arduino-day-2025-and-arduinos-20th-anniversary

AI is Revolutionizing Embedded Systems Development

I have just written an article to Uusiteknologia magazine on how AI is being used in electronics products design and the development of new features in embedded systems. Over the past few years, generative AI, utilizing large language models (LLMs), has become a common tool for developers working on electronics and embedded devices. AI is

Happy Pi Day

Every March 14 (3/14), mathematicians, scientists and math lovers around the world celebrate Pi Day, a commemoration of the mathematical sign pi (π), expressed most simply by the decimals 3.14 That 3.14 “joke” does not work so well in Europe where this date is normally written as 14.3.2025. The March 14 date coincides with Einstein’s

Smard card test card

I found an old smart card test card with PIC16C84 and a memory chip. Depending on the software put to PIC it could have maybe emulated telephone booth calling card, SIM card, satellite TV smartcard, cable TV smartcard or something else.

Micro:bit Create AI

Using the accelerometer and processor of the micro:bit V2, you can experience and learn about artificial intelligence in the real world through movement and machine learning (ML). micro:bit CreateAI is a free, web-based tool that makes it easy for students to explore AI through movement and machine learning, and take it into the real world

Phone line over voltage protection

This is a telephone line over voltage protector. This is basen on a design I did originally around 1995. Has been available for almost 30 years. That white thing is a deal gas discharge tube over-voltage protector that dissipates most of the over-voltage surge. It is followed with two other layers of protection (VDR and