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LTC3108 Breakout Board Pin Names and Function
Here's a list of the functions of the pins on the LTC3108 Breakout Board. Pin Name Function V-IN Input Voltage, range...
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LTC3108 Start-up Sequence
The input section of the LTC3108 consists of a step-up oscillator circuit formed from an internal depletion mode N-channel MOSFET together with an external 1:100 transformer and coupling capacitors....
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ADXRS649 20,000 deg/sec Gyro (Twenty Thousand deg/sec!)
Just received an Analog Devices ADXRS649 20,000 deg/sec gyro and they're tiny. Got it on the eval board so I didn't have to deal with the BGA, even though that doesn't look too bad, just 64 pins. Also,...
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Energy Scavenging LTC3108 OSHW SSOP package version coming
Sent off a version of the LTC3108 Energy Scavenging board that uses the SSOP version of the package. The advantage will be that manual assembly of the board will be simplied. Otherwise, the features...
View ArticleLTC3108 Eagle files and component library posted on github
I've posted the Eagle files and the component library for the LTC3108 breakout board (both DFN and SSOP) on my public github site, https://github.com/wa7iut
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Having fun with Sparkfun Ultimate IMU
Just got my Sparkfun Ultimate IMU and it is performing flawlessly. Next I plan some changes to both hardware and software but as it is, right out of the box, it's amazing. The IMU (with a quarter for...
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Energy Scavenging LTC3108 OSHW SSOP package version
Just finished testing the LTC3108 board with the SSOP package. Works great! More to come.
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Energy Scavenging WSN
Putting together all the pieces now. Here is a complete Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Wireless Sensor Node (WSN) that energy scavenges. Have a Peltier thermo-electric generator resting on top of a 20W...
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Cats of Engineering - Mungo Jere
Here's Mungo Jere's photo for the Cats of Engineering layout at Adafruit.
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LPCxpresso breadboard
The NXP LPCxpresso development boards are a great deal (includes hardware and IDE). One problem with them is they're an incovenient size to use on a prototype board. Another problem is that a some...
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