Multimeter design has been somewhat of a stagnant craft, the basic look and layout being maintained for a several decades. The shape has been pretty much the same, and they are typically stand-alone instruments that don’t usually connect to any other device (although some meters have had PC connectivity typically through RS-232 or USB). Now →
I have written on car electronics trends on my Car Electronics 2012 posting, and followed on the later news on the topic on the comments. It is well known that cars have become and are becoming as big moving intelligent always connected mobile devices. There are also plans to make the roads intelligent. Intelligent Roadways →
Are you writing software that needs to be secure? Quite probably. Security critical programs include application programs used as viewers of remote data, web applications (including CGI scripts), network servers, and setuid/setgid programs. Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO — Creating Secure Software on-line book provides a set of design and implementation guidelines for →
Yesterday I did some testing with ProcessingJS. Processing.js is the sister project designed for the web of the popular Processing visual programming language (open source programming language based on Java). Processing.js makes your data visualizations, digital art, interactive animations, educational graphs, video games, etc. work using web standards and without any plug-ins. You write code →
This is few years old, but still funny: JAVA 4-EVER – Official Trailer A young man discovers a new world unfolding… Is it a real movie? No but the trailer is cool hehe This hillarious, except for the minor detail that also java sucks. The less you know about Java the more you laugh. →
ModPlayerJS is a player that runs in your browser for .MOD music files (the mainstay of Amiga and PC sample-based music circa 1990). This worked for me in Chrome browser but failed to work on Firefox. A good example of MOD music and what the player can do is to play 1DASBOOT.MOD with it (compare →
Every electrical engineer who does DIY projects knows that dozens of free resistor calculators are out there that can save quite a bit of tedious work. Other simple tools can be found, but traditionally the free tool arsenal would stop there. To help sort out the nonsense from the useful online tools, check this blog →
I mentioned Fritzing two years ago and now I find coming back to use this software. Fritzing is an open source software initiative that was to support designers and artists ready to move from physical prototyping to actual product. Today Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for →
I found a very cheap Arduino Nano board from Bang good web shop. I consider 5.34 Euros very cheap price for Arduino Nano, usually those cost $10 or even considerably more. Gravitech lists on it’s web page price to be $34.99. I wonder how this board can get this be built and delivered from other →
When I was designing the measurement circuit used in my How to measure smartphone power usage posting, I needed to design a RC low pass filter to it. I could have picked an electronics book and formulas in it, but instead of manual calculation I used Google to find a tool for that on-line. There →