Many electronics hackers have habit of using Eagle to design their PCBs. You’ll find plenty of support for this software as well as a lot of parts libraries, the free version of Eagle software comes with limitations (board area is limited to 4×3.2 inches, only two signal layers and the schematics editor can only create →
Function generator in an important tool in electronics laboratory. It allows to generate different types of electrical waveforms over a wide range of frequencies. Traditionally function generators have been built using analogue electronics. There have been special ICs that have been widely used for this: Exar XR2206 and the Intersil ICL8038integrated circuits can generate sine, →
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Do you want to know what happens in the USB devices? What data flows between your PC and your device? Here are some videos that show tips how you can figure out what data flows on your USB ports. Reverse Engineering USB Devices [28C3] How to reverse engineer a USB protocol for Linux →
Are you planning to buy a multimeter and need help? Here are some timps How to Buy a Multimeter covers what you need to know to select a meter for DIY electronics. It focuses on the needs for audio electronics, but it’s purposely kept general in nature. Handheld Digital Multimeters are mainly used to measure →
Cable tracers are used for tracking and troubleshooting cables quickly. They are suitable for identification and maintenance of telephony networks and also for testing any kind of lines not-connected to the mains. Suitable applications are wiring test for computer Local Area Networks (LAN) and telephony extensions. There are countless cable tracers on the market, but →
GitHub’s Atom Text Editor Hits 1.0, Now Has Over 350,000 Monthly Active article got me interested in Atom editor software. Atom is GitHub’s highly extensible open source text editor. Atom project was started by the founder of GitHub, Chris Wanstrath in the mid of year 2008. Nearly 6 years later, the first public beta was →
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http://mobile.pcmag.com/software/56504-21-cool-non-math-things-you-can-do-with-wolfram-alpha?origref= Interesting… especially the image processing examples. Posted from WordPress for Android →
Every now and then there are situations where you need to draw timing diagram. I have drawn those sometimes with different tools, but none of them have been ideal (text description, hand drawings, ASCII art etc..). So what are the existing solutions worth to check out? There are font-based solutions that let you “type” the →