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Fun with the meme generating. When it comes to adding decoupling caps, Make It So.

The Gecko Zero EFM32 Weather Station Evaluation Board from Silicon Labs is intended to show off the low-energy or energy harvesting capabilities of the EFM32 Zero. The ARM-based …

If you’re making your own PCB with the toner transfer method, you might find that getting nice clean ground planes is difficult. John on twitter (@ johngineer) realized a simple, …

This is my first year attending CES. Apparently, nobody told anyone here about the death of the trade show. As an enginerd, here is my perspective. First, if you’ve never been, …

Bill Hammock’s “Engineer Guy” podcast series was one of my first video podcast subscriptions. His explanation videos hit the right balance between “high level’ and “low-level” …

Article I wrote on some innovations KEMET has implemented in their capacitors: " There is no Moore’s Law for passive components like capacitors, but relentless development is …

Video is rendered on a PC and provide to the analog scope for X/Y graphing.

What happens when you have a random chip or sensor you want to interface with an Arduino, but don’t know how? You search for a pre-existing library of course. And where are many …

If you’re using serial (or UART) communication between two devices and seeing data corruption, there could be a simple fix. For example you might be trying to communicate between …

Oscilloscopes are the most critical tool when it comes to debug and analysis of electronic circuits. In recent years, digital oscilloscopes finally surpassed their analog …