electronics

Tools for the Electronics Hobbyist Part 1 Graphical Components Tester

Tools for the Electronics Hobbyist Part 1- Graphical Components Tester

When I started to deal with Chinese electronics suppliers from websites like Alibaba, Aliexpress and Taobao, I discovered that there are huge amount of undiscovered tools from the Chinese market. They are not easily discovered, maybe due to the Chinese language barrier, especially when we deal with a Chinese website like Taobao or maybe because

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More Raspberry Pi Electronics Experiments – Gertboard and Potentiometer Controlled LED Cluster

More Raspberry Pi Electronics Experiments – Gertboard and Potentiometer-Controlled LED Cluster

More Raspberry Pi Electronics Experiments – Gertboard and Potentiometer-Controlled LED Cluster Posted on February 3, 2013 by rakanalysis One of the things which alerted me to the potential of the Raspberry Pi as an electronics control system was the announcement of the Gertboard before the Raspberry Pi was released into the market. When the Gertboard was

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Alarm Electronics

Alarm Electronics

Above and below are the diagrams of the electronics that will interface the alarm system sensors with the Raspberry Pi. The first diagram is a conventional electronics schematic and the second is how you can build the circuit prototype on a bread board.   We have shown two identical circuits representing two contacts in your

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Camera Platform Electronics

Camera Platform Electronics

As I said in the previous part, I’m not an electrical engineer. I haven’t touched any real electronics since school. However, the internet is a wonderful place, and thanks to a number of other sources I was able to figure out how to get the Pi to drive a couple of motors. Essentially this guide

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