Free Stuff - February 2024

The belated February 2024 Free Stuff recipient for the Great Scott Gadgets Free Stuff Program is Adam Drake! Adam, a teacher in Canada, sponsors three clubs at his high school - a competitive robotics club, a model railway club, and a D&D club. All of these clubs are fully funded from either internal school funds, the school PAC (Parental Advisory Council), or the NSHSS. This summer, Adam ran an RF Comms summer school where 18 students gained their amateur radio certification!

Following the success of the RF Comms summer school, Adam is now starting another after-school club: “RF Communications.” This club...

Оголяем «данные» и что из этого вышло

Однажды я задался целью создать устройство, которое измеряло бы качество воздуха — не просто как-то, а с высокой точностью. Проект по разработке устройства привел к созданию NeboAir — недорогого датчика, который претендует на высокую точность. В этом материале я расскажу об испытаниях в реальных условиях и о том, что получилось в итоге.

Fritzing 1.0.4 released

Fritzing 1.0.4 is a maintenance release. It has been tested on Windows 10, Windows 11, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 24.04. What is new UX: QFN support and working with tiny structures in the PCB was vastly improved. We changed the algorithm that decides which element will receive a mouse click. Ratsnest lines now stay the same size when zooming in. The hitbox size of wires and traces now depends on the wire diameter. These two images show a PCB at 3000% zoom. The copper traces are 0.2mm (8mil) wide. Working at this scale was...

September Update: Check Your Notes

A new community update! New hardware to announced and previous hardware to return!

BML FPGA Design Tutorial Part-16ofN : Test Benches

2024.09.29 : I’m BSEE Kevin Hubbard from Seattle, WA. I design digital logic circuits. My journey started more than 40 years ago designing digital circuit boards. My first was a simple 5V TTL logic plug-in expansion board for my 8-bit Apple ][+ computer as a teenager in the 1980’s. In the 1990’s I eventually transitioned ( and got paid! ) to design chips – PALs, CPLDs, early sub-micron (350nm) FPGAs and eventually digital ASICs (250nm, 180nm ) during the LSI Logic heyday years of late 1990’s to early 2000’s.

I have circled back to FPGAs these days, but now deep sub-micron...

Soil Monitoring for Conservation, Australia

Measuring changing in soil properties can indicate soil and ecosystem health, informing conservation land management practises.

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GPS and Septage Level Monitoring on Trucks, Egypt

In almost all of the projects we work on, the technology problem is the easiest one to solve.

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Monitoring Water Levels in Rice Paddy Fields, Philippines

By reducing the amount of water used in growing, and monitoring the water levels in the rice paddy fields, irrigation can be managed more efficiently and predictably.

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Water Monitoring & Workshops, The Himalayas

Ownership over a system is critical as many projects fail after the implementors leave.

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Test-2

Test except

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