Free Webinar: Bridge Android & Your Electronics Projects
The Elektor AndroPod module

Do you want to add a powerful wireless Android device to your own projects? Now you can, and doing so is easier than you think. With their high-resolution touchscreens, ample computing power, WLAN support, and telephone functions, Android smartphones and … Continue reading

Q&A: Lawrence Foltzer (Communications Engineer)
Lawrence Foltzer’s frequency-domain test instruments. An Analog Devices AD9834-based RFG is on the left. An AD5930-based SFG is on the right. The ICSP interface used to program a Microchip Technology PIC16F627A microcontroller is provided by a dangling RJ connector socket. (Source: L. Foltzer, CC254)

In the U.S., a common gift to give someone when he or she finishes school or completes a course of career training is Dr. Seuss’s book, Oh, the Place You’ll Go. I thought of the book’s title when I first … Continue reading

Wireless Data Control for Remote Sensor Monitoring
iFarm-Host/Remote PCB Prototype (Source: R. Bowen, http://wireless.xtreemhost.com/photo-album.htm)

Circuit Cellar has published dozens of interesting articles about handy wireless applications over the years. And now we have another innovative project to report about. Circuit Cellar author Robert Bowen contacted us recently with a link to information about his iFarm-II … Continue reading

Tech Highlights from Design West: RL78, AndroPod, Stellaris, mbed, & more
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The Embedded Systems Conference has always been a top venue for studying, discussing, and handling the embedded industry’s newest leading-edge technologies. This year in San Jose, CA, I walked the floor looking for the tech Circuit Cellar and Elektor members … Continue reading

Zero-Power Sensor (ZPS) Network
Inside the ZPS project (Source: Wolfgang Richter, Faranak M.Zadeh)

Recently, we featured two notable projects featuring Echelon’s Pyxos Pyxos technology: one about solid-state lighting solutions and one about a radiant floor heating zone controller. Here we present another innovative project: a zero-power sensor (ZPS) network on polymer. The ZPS … Continue reading