Origin Wireless takes a unique approach to home security. Instead of using cameras or motion sensors, the company employs Wi-Fi in its Home Security System (Fig. 1). The control device uses Wi-Fi to communicate with your network, but it also uses ...
Aaron Hanson allaboutcircuits.com Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Learn how to hook up an analog input (potentiometer) and output (LED) using a Microchip BLE module. This is the four installment in my project series created to demonstrate using ...
Aaron Hanson allaboutcircuits.com Part 1 Part 2 Learn how to use a Microchip Bluetooth module to prototype digital input and digital control peripherals. In this article, the three in a four-part series on Microchip's RN487x Bluetooth modules, ...
Information for configuring your modules and using them before each of the project descriptions that will follow in other articles. Part 1 Using a Console Connection to Configure the RN487x To configure the RN487x, first supply power to the module ...
Aaron Hanson allaboutcircuits.com Learn about the RN487x family of Bluetooth modules and how to configure them for your low-power peripheral projects. If you are developing a small, low-power peripheral, the odds are good that you are considering ...
Jessica MacNeil EDN On this day in tech history, Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral. The launch followed on a similar but unsuccessful attempt by NASA in May 1960 to launch a near ...
Suzanne Deffree EDN The company now known as AT T first established commercial telephone service between North America and Europe on January 7, 1927. Using radio, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co hosted a two-way conversation between New ...
Brian Dipert EDN I've tested (and tore down) several network-controllable power switches of late; Belkin's WeMo and, more recently, TP-Link's HS100, both Wi-Fi based. Then there's GE's (sold under license by Jasco) Avi-on line. ...
My lower-midrange Hubsan X4+ FPV drone got stuck in a tree in the middle of winter. We managed to knock it down a couple of months ago (the drone, not the tree), while there was still lots of snow to cushion the fall. After weathering the elements ...
Abhishek Gupta Imran Mohammed, Cypress Semiconductor EDN Bluetooth technology has revolutionized wireless communications between devices with its ubiquitous and simple characteristics. It allows devices to communicate without cables while ...