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Handheld ultrasound scanners Nothing to do with AVRs, but can someone explain to me how the handheld ultrasound scanners detect position/motion? The ones they use on pregnant women, or old farts like me, when... |
Wednesday, 29 July 2020 - 08:59 |
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Safely measure 12v boat battery voltage with AVR I'd like to monitor a 12V boat battery. I don't want to risk damage to the ADC input, what with pumps and things kicking in and out. Would a 50k resistor from the bat+ and a 10k... |
Wednesday, 15 July 2020 - 11:50 |
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Dumb MPPT question I have a couple of small solar panels gathering dust. They have an OC voltage of around 20V. I would like to use them to charge some NiCads, maybe 3 or 4 in series. I have read... |
Sunday, 17 May 2020 - 09:40 |
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USART in SPI mode for reading 128 bit stream at 25,000 bps I will be trying to capture a stream of 128 bits at aprox 40uS intervals. I know I can do this easily with counter/timer interrupts, although the interrupt latency could introduce... |
Wednesday, 13 May 2020 - 10:26 |
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Reflow with hot air gun or kitchen oven? I have a Toyota key fob that seems to have a dry joint or similar. It only works if I twist the PCB slightly. Since these things cost hundreds to replace, is there any mileage in... |
Tuesday, 30 July 2019 - 09:55 |
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PIC programming I expect I'll be Blynched, but here goes anyway... It's all the same happy bunch of pals company now, right? An old client of mine has a bunch of PCBs that I designed several... |
Friday, 22 March 2019 - 13:27 |
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Strange Alexa Bluetooth problem. My wife's Echo dot is usually connected via Bluetooth to a little BT receiver that plugs into the aux input of our dining room "HiFi". After it's been connected for some... |
Friday, 8 March 2019 - 11:12 |
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XMEGA-A3BU XPLAINED yours for postage. Found this whilst looking for something completely different. I'm probably never going to use it, so yours for postage cost(which I guess limits it to UK). |
Saturday, 2 March 2019 - 14:48 |
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Hi side FET switch for low voltage I'd like to switch the power to a small OLED display, it draws under 50mA, could be a lot less, but depends on active pixels. It is, however, too much for me to supply the Vdd... |
Friday, 18 January 2019 - 08:00 |
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1 inch fuse I blew the fuse on my trusty multimeter. Nothing in my RS fuse selection box from 35 years ago(starts at 1A). The only place I can find 1" by 1/4" 500mA quick blow is Farnell, who... |
Tuesday, 27 March 2018 - 12:24 |
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Strange failure mode of toothbrush My electric toothbrush used to have two speeds, press once for slow, twice for fast, a third time for off. Now it goes from off to fast to off. It's not likely to be switch bounce... |
Saturday, 20 January 2018 - 14:55 |
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How to: power consumption of intermittent, spikey projects Seriously, how do y'all work out power consumption of interrmittent, spikey projects? I generally use one of two methods: a) Measure the running current by disabling the sleep,... |
Wednesday, 6 December 2017 - 08:58 |