Part 1, 2, 3, 4 And here it comes! Packed in a cardbox box which contains: 1 Tascam DR-40 recorder wrapped in plastic bag 1 mini USB cable 1 user Manual printed in various languages 3 alkaline batteries 1 small rubber stand in a small plastic bag! Watch out, this small rubber stand is a […]
Part 1, 2, 3, 4 The followers of arduinoos know that I have a constant and strong interest in sound recording and analysis. As I get more and more requests for specific sound analysis, I decided to get a semi-professional sound recorder to capture sound events in various environments. Thus the wish list that I […]
Part 1 I am amazed by the massive improvements of sensors along the last 10 years. Not so long ago, some sensors would fit in a shoe box and require 24 VDC, not to talk about the interfaces, weight, etc. These improvements are mainly due to the incorporation of advanced sensors in smart phones: camera, […]
Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Let’s go a few steps further in the direction of a fully featured arbitrary wave generator ! The early posts describe how to generate clean waves at various frequencies. In this post, I will explain how to offset the signal and how to attenuate it. Setting negative offsets requires… negative voltage ! Which Arduino platforms do […]
Part 1, 2, 3 As I was stumbling the web looking for advanced information on thermal noise, I found some very interesting papers on RNGs, aka Random Number Generators. These devices feature hardware components which are responsible for a generating unpredictable random numbers ! This is a very interesting matter as it involves physics, electronics, […]
Part 1, 2 Long story short: I never met wizards before Valerio knocked on quai-lab‘s door. And we all committed to help him to ‘augment’ the experience of his magic puppets. However, it’s long road from puppets to bytes and bits. But Valerio is not this sort of person who gives up easily and this post is […]
The content from the numerous exchange of mails and a careful analysis of visited pages on arduinoos show that many, many people from the planet of hackers, makers, learners, are very interested in advanced applications which mostly require digital signal processing functions. Not all Arduino fans had a chance to learn and practice DSP, so […]
As technology improves, the size, performances and cost of measurement instruments changes over the time. Few months ago, we described the RIGOL 1052E which was pretty new at this time. As we were looking for a new equipment for the lab we decided to compare the various products available from the market. Before getting into the […]
Part 1, 2, 3 Erratic clicks! Life goes on and the Rigol 1052E remains a reliable companion still purring and always ready to help diagnosing circuits and running prototypes testing. Sometimes ago, I experienced some strange changes in time and amplitude scales when using the notched rotary encoders. Values where jumping erratically from one value to an other, whatever […]
Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Here are some new functions added to the PlainRTC libraries which drive the DS13x7, DS1306 and DS1394 series RTCs. These function are here to help in standardizing the date and time values to be recorded and read back by various applications for graphic reconstruction for example. Although I am getting more and more […]