What is PCB solder paste? PCB solder paste is a powdered mixture of flux and solder. It is used to attach thousands of tiny electrical components to their contact pads in the assembly of printed circuit boards. Without it, the process of PCB assembly is incomplete. If you’re looking forward to designing and fabricating a PCB, read this article. It […]
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Thread is a new, energy-efficient networking technology found on the HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K (2021). Products from Nanoleaf, Eve and other manufacturers have also increasingly been made suitable for thread. What is it, and what can you do with it? You can read that here. What is Thread? Thread is an IP-based network
In this post, we’ll be taking a closer look at the Arduino® Nano hardware, and more specifically, the Arduino® Nano pinout. Arduino® Nano is based on the ATmega328 by Atmel. The Arduino® Nano pinout consists of 14 digital pins, 6 analogue inputs, USB connection and ICSP header. The versatility of the pinout provides many different
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Matter, previously project CHIP, is the new foundation for connected things. Guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance, and developed through collaboration amongst all the leaders of the IoT industry, Matter focuses on building connected devices that are secure, reliable, and importantly, seamless to use. Espressif has been a part of the Matter initiative since early days,
In this blog, I’ll show you how to add a battery and charger to any microcontroller based project based on an Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32, or any other microcontroller. This in a correct, safe, easy and cheap way. This project is not just about building it, but also highlighting a few things, very important for makers
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The ESP32 comes with 2 Xtensa 32-bit LX6 microprocessors. So, it is dual core. When we run code on the Arduino app, by default, it runs on core 1. In this blog we’ll show you how to run code on the ESP32 second core by creating tasks. You can run pieces of code simultaneously on both cores, and
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This Project is Featured on instructables! I have already written several blogs about ESP HomeKit. For the more experienced makers, this is not a problem. But for starters or starting makers or hobbyists it may not be so easy. That’s why in this blog I’m going to make a LED strip using 3 “standard” modules.
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In this post, we’ll be taking a closer look at the ESP8266-12S hardware, and more specifically, the ESP8266 pinout. The ESP8266 is based on the Tensilica L106 32-bit micro controller. The ESP8266-12S pinout consists of 11 digital pins, 1 analog inputs. The versatility of the pinout provides many different options such as driving motors, LED’s,
Many have been eagerly awaiting the ESP32C3 from Espressif. It has only one computing core instead of the usual two processor cores in other ESP32 controllers. But this core works with the free, open RISC-V instruction set architecture that competes with the ARM-based controllers widely used for IoT applications. I recently put the ESP32C3 through
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After writing quite a few blogs about ESP8266 in combination with HomeKit SDK, it is now time to look at the ESP32. The ESP32 and actually the ESP32-C3 is the upcoming replacement for the ESP8266. That’s why I’m going to show you how to migrate from the ESP8266 to the ESP32 series. We start simply
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