💻 Top 4 Embedded Operating Systems with Examples
Detailed article summing up all the most popular OS.
Choosing a real-time system will depend on how fast your system must react. For example, a Hard RTOS is used for medical systems and Soft RTOS is used in video streaming like Chromecast.
▫️ Embedded Linux refers to the use of Linux in robots, routers, prototyping boards, or any electronic device that possesses a microcontroller (MCU). It is a free license, inexpensive, has plenty of documentation, offers free and paid support, highly customizable.
▫️ QNX focuses on performance and reliability. Its features are designed to keep the embedded device running its task without flaws and in time. It is a RTOS, supports many architectures, you can port Linux application to QNX.
▫️ INTEGRITY is an Hard RTOS for embedded devices applied in many areas such as satellites, rail trains, or industrial robots.
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Detailed article summing up all the most popular OS.
Choosing a real-time system will depend on how fast your system must react. For example, a Hard RTOS is used for medical systems and Soft RTOS is used in video streaming like Chromecast.
▫️ Embedded Linux refers to the use of Linux in robots, routers, prototyping boards, or any electronic device that possesses a microcontroller (MCU). It is a free license, inexpensive, has plenty of documentation, offers free and paid support, highly customizable.
▫️ QNX focuses on performance and reliability. Its features are designed to keep the embedded device running its task without flaws and in time. It is a RTOS, supports many architectures, you can port Linux application to QNX.
▫️ INTEGRITY is an Hard RTOS for embedded devices applied in many areas such as satellites, rail trains, or industrial robots.
More information...
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📰 Tokyo Olympic Robots
The black-and-white high-tech contraption made its debut earlier this week as one of a handful of robots designed to streamline the Tokyo Olympic Games. And it can be seen again — essentially playing fetch — during the track and field throwing events over the weekend.
The International Olympics Committee says the self-driving robot is able to suss out the "optimal path" to follow when it's chasing after hammers, javelins and all manner of objects thrown by athletes.
"The Tokyo 2020 Games are a unique opportunity for us to display Japanese robot technology," said Hirohisa Hirukawa, leader of the Tokyo 2020 Robot Project.
He added that the project will showcase the practical and real-life benefits of such machines.
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#news #robots
The black-and-white high-tech contraption made its debut earlier this week as one of a handful of robots designed to streamline the Tokyo Olympic Games. And it can be seen again — essentially playing fetch — during the track and field throwing events over the weekend.
The International Olympics Committee says the self-driving robot is able to suss out the "optimal path" to follow when it's chasing after hammers, javelins and all manner of objects thrown by athletes.
"The Tokyo 2020 Games are a unique opportunity for us to display Japanese robot technology," said Hirohisa Hirukawa, leader of the Tokyo 2020 Robot Project.
He added that the project will showcase the practical and real-life benefits of such machines.
More information...
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📃 Top 5 Secrets of High-Speed PCBs Revealed by Professionals
From assembly development to mitigating crosstalk to signal integrity, these tips can help streamline the high-speed PCB design process.
Vigorous competition in the electronics market means developers must keep modification in mind when designing systems. High-speed PCBs are increasingly important to high-performance solutions, but high-speed PCB assembly is costly. That's why you can’t experiment with these boards or generate a lot of prototypes.
This article offers five tips to help streamline and improve those high-speed PCB designs while keeping costs at bay.
What you’ll learn:
▫️ Designing high-speed PCBs.
▫️ Maintaining signal integrity for faster signal transmission.
▫️ Reducing crosstalk in high-speed PCBs.
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#articles #hardware #electronics #design
From assembly development to mitigating crosstalk to signal integrity, these tips can help streamline the high-speed PCB design process.
Vigorous competition in the electronics market means developers must keep modification in mind when designing systems. High-speed PCBs are increasingly important to high-performance solutions, but high-speed PCB assembly is costly. That's why you can’t experiment with these boards or generate a lot of prototypes.
This article offers five tips to help streamline and improve those high-speed PCB designs while keeping costs at bay.
What you’ll learn:
▫️ Designing high-speed PCBs.
▫️ Maintaining signal integrity for faster signal transmission.
▫️ Reducing crosstalk in high-speed PCBs.
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💻 IoT Development Platforms
The article aims to help you decide the best one for your IoT project
◽ Toit offers a completely new set of features and even a new python-like programming language developed solely for IoT. The Toit language is a high-level, object-oriented language with simple and easy-to-use Python-like syntax and is 20 times faster than MicroPython.
◽ The Balena platform offers a wide variety of tools for building, deploying, and managing IoT apps on your device. This IoT development platform is targeted to be used on Linux-based devices like Raspberry Pi or Nvidia’s Jetson TX2.
◽ Particle is a complete edge-to-cloud platform for IoT, offering solutions for hardware, connectivity, device cloud, and apps. Based on Arduino libraries.
◽ The Azure IoT Suite is an open-source cloud-based platform that is designed for different industries ranging from manufacturing to transportation to retail. Supports AMQP, MQTT, and HTTP protocols. Provides strong security standards.
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#IoT
The article aims to help you decide the best one for your IoT project
◽ Toit offers a completely new set of features and even a new python-like programming language developed solely for IoT. The Toit language is a high-level, object-oriented language with simple and easy-to-use Python-like syntax and is 20 times faster than MicroPython.
◽ The Balena platform offers a wide variety of tools for building, deploying, and managing IoT apps on your device. This IoT development platform is targeted to be used on Linux-based devices like Raspberry Pi or Nvidia’s Jetson TX2.
◽ Particle is a complete edge-to-cloud platform for IoT, offering solutions for hardware, connectivity, device cloud, and apps. Based on Arduino libraries.
◽ The Azure IoT Suite is an open-source cloud-based platform that is designed for different industries ranging from manufacturing to transportation to retail. Supports AMQP, MQTT, and HTTP protocols. Provides strong security standards.
More information...
#IoT
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📑 Top 4 Interesting Engineering Projects
Worthy looking into startups for gaining new ideas and inspiration
▫️ Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware and more. It's fully open-source and customizable.
▫️ The ZUtA portable pocket printer is the most compact printer till date. It is pretty small, as its diameter is 10.2 cm and weighs in at 350 grams.
▫️ XGO-Mini is a desktop-sized AI quadruped robot with 12 degrees of freedom which can achieve omnidirectional movement, six-dimensional posture control, stable posture, and a variety of motions.
▫️ myCobot is the world’s smallest and lightest collaborative robot, retaining most of the functions of industrial robots. With compact and elegant industrial design, excellent and powerful performance, and huge software and hardware development space, myCobot has unlimited possibilities in application expansion.
#articles #robots
Worthy looking into startups for gaining new ideas and inspiration
▫️ Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware and more. It's fully open-source and customizable.
▫️ The ZUtA portable pocket printer is the most compact printer till date. It is pretty small, as its diameter is 10.2 cm and weighs in at 350 grams.
▫️ XGO-Mini is a desktop-sized AI quadruped robot with 12 degrees of freedom which can achieve omnidirectional movement, six-dimensional posture control, stable posture, and a variety of motions.
▫️ myCobot is the world’s smallest and lightest collaborative robot, retaining most of the functions of industrial robots. With compact and elegant industrial design, excellent and powerful performance, and huge software and hardware development space, myCobot has unlimited possibilities in application expansion.
#articles #robots
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💻 Practical PCB Layout Tips
This article will help your PCB projects work correctly and reliably.
▫️ Sizing Traces: Real-world copper traces have resistance, thus trace has a voltage drop, power dissipation, and a temperature rise when current flows through it. Use a PCB trace width calculator to determine how thick and wide your traces should be for your application.
▫️ Make Loops Small: Small loops also help reduce the amount of signals that are inductively coupled into the node from external sources, or are broadcast from the node. This is what you want, unless you’re designing an antenna. Also keep loops small for op-amp circuits to prevent noise from being coupled into the circuit.
▫️ Place decoupling capacitors as near as possible to the power and ground pins of integrated circuits to maximize decoupling efficiency.
▫️ Place extra copper around surface mount component to provide extra surface area to dissipate heat more efficiently.
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#articles #electronics
This article will help your PCB projects work correctly and reliably.
▫️ Sizing Traces: Real-world copper traces have resistance, thus trace has a voltage drop, power dissipation, and a temperature rise when current flows through it. Use a PCB trace width calculator to determine how thick and wide your traces should be for your application.
▫️ Make Loops Small: Small loops also help reduce the amount of signals that are inductively coupled into the node from external sources, or are broadcast from the node. This is what you want, unless you’re designing an antenna. Also keep loops small for op-amp circuits to prevent noise from being coupled into the circuit.
▫️ Place decoupling capacitors as near as possible to the power and ground pins of integrated circuits to maximize decoupling efficiency.
▫️ Place extra copper around surface mount component to provide extra surface area to dissipate heat more efficiently.
More information...
#articles #electronics
🎬 What is an FPGA, and how does it compare to a microcontroller?
A basic introduction to what Field Programmable Gate Arrays are and how they work, and the advantages and disadvantages.
https://youtu.be/gUsHwi4M4xE
#video #FPGA
A basic introduction to what Field Programmable Gate Arrays are and how they work, and the advantages and disadvantages.
https://youtu.be/gUsHwi4M4xE
#video #FPGA
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EEVblog #496 - What Is An FPGA?
What is an FPGA, and how does it compare to a microcontroller?
A basic introduction to what Field Programmable Gate Arrays are and how they work, and the advantages and disadvantages.
FPGA Stuff in Dave's Amazon store: http://bit.ly/1ayoNiV
FPGA Implementation…
A basic introduction to what Field Programmable Gate Arrays are and how they work, and the advantages and disadvantages.
FPGA Stuff in Dave's Amazon store: http://bit.ly/1ayoNiV
FPGA Implementation…
🎬 The Process of Production of Homemade Silicon Chips
Incredibly interesting video from a person who managed to start production of chips in his garage. In this video, author shows the second version of his chips which contain 100 transistors each. Additionally, author described the whole process in more details in his blog.
https://youtu.be/IS5ycm7VfXg
#video #electronics
Incredibly interesting video from a person who managed to start production of chips in his garage. In this video, author shows the second version of his chips which contain 100 transistors each. Additionally, author described the whole process in more details in his blog.
https://youtu.be/IS5ycm7VfXg
#video #electronics
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"Z2" - Upgraded Homemade Silicon Chips
https://www.patreon.com/szeloof
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
Check our Jeri Ellsworth's amazing work making the first transistors and logic gates at home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdcKwOo7dmM&t=1s
Dipping a rock into chemicals until it becomes…
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
Check our Jeri Ellsworth's amazing work making the first transistors and logic gates at home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdcKwOo7dmM&t=1s
Dipping a rock into chemicals until it becomes…
🎬 Raspberry Pi Camera Group Test
Video shows the comparison of:
▫️ ZeroCam
▫️ Raspberry Pi Camera V2
▫️ Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera
https://youtu.be/-NxpCirSqm4
#video #raspberry #camera
Video shows the comparison of:
▫️ ZeroCam
▫️ Raspberry Pi Camera V2
▫️ Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera
https://youtu.be/-NxpCirSqm4
#video #raspberry #camera
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Raspberry Pi Camera Group Test
Raspberry Pi Camera group test, comparing the ZeroCam, Raspberry Pi Camera V2, and the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
On October 30th 2021, a new version of Raspberry Pi OS was released known as “Bullseye”. This has new camera drivers…
IMPORTANT NOTE:
On October 30th 2021, a new version of Raspberry Pi OS was released known as “Bullseye”. This has new camera drivers…
📟 Open-Source Lithium Battery Voltage Boost Module
A DC boost converter designed around a single cell lithium battery using surface mount components on a custom designed PCB. The PCB is designed in KiCAD, the lovely open source ECAD suite.
Using an inexpensive boost converter IC, it’s able to boost the battery voltage of 3.7 V to 5-24 V. The board includes a battery management system and microUSB connector for charging.
More information:
The main article
The GitHub page
#projects #electronics #battery
A DC boost converter designed around a single cell lithium battery using surface mount components on a custom designed PCB. The PCB is designed in KiCAD, the lovely open source ECAD suite.
Using an inexpensive boost converter IC, it’s able to boost the battery voltage of 3.7 V to 5-24 V. The board includes a battery management system and microUSB connector for charging.
More information:
The main article
The GitHub page
#projects #electronics #battery
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🤖 The PolarBear - Open-Source 3D-Printable Multipurpose CNC Machine
Computer numerical control (CNC) is a method for automating control of machine tools through the use of software embedded in a microcomputer attached to the tool.
Nice project of a useful desktop machine that can be used in many ways, from soldering to 3D-printing, depending on the task, tool, and a program.
Thanks to the PolarBear's unique design and kinematics, the limits between the needs of the different functions are more blurred. While it can be as fast as a 3D printer, it can be rigid for use as a CNC milling machine as well. The machine can be build of available off-the-shelf components and has 3D-printable parts.
More information:
The Official website
The GitHub page
#projects #robots #tools
Computer numerical control (CNC) is a method for automating control of machine tools through the use of software embedded in a microcomputer attached to the tool.
Nice project of a useful desktop machine that can be used in many ways, from soldering to 3D-printing, depending on the task, tool, and a program.
Thanks to the PolarBear's unique design and kinematics, the limits between the needs of the different functions are more blurred. While it can be as fast as a 3D printer, it can be rigid for use as a CNC milling machine as well. The machine can be build of available off-the-shelf components and has 3D-printable parts.
More information:
The Official website
The GitHub page
#projects #robots #tools