Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. In today's tutorial, we are gonna have a look at a detailed Introduction to DS3231. DS3231 is a real-time clock (RTC) with an integrated temperature-compensated crystal oscillator. It consists of a battery that provides supply to DS3231 when the main supply is off. In this way, it continues working without any interference. It is available in industrial and commercial temperature ranges. It exists in a 16-pin, 300-mil SO package.
DS3231 is used in industrial projects and different electronic devices such as laptops, computers, and GPS for high accuracy of time. In today's post, we will have a look at its working, pinout, applications, protocol, etc. I will also share some links to projects where I have interfaced it with some oth ...
Hello readers, we hope you all are doing great. In this tutorial, we are going to demonstrate how to interface and control a servo motor using an ESP32 board. After that, we will demonstrate how to create a webserver to control the servo motor’s shaft position with the ESP32 board.
Servo Motors are among the most important actuators in robotics, with applications ranging from RC planes to automated door locks.
Hardware components required
A servo motor
ESP32 development board
Connecting wires
Breadboard
Servo Motor
There are several specific types of electric motor applications in which the motor must rotate only at a specific angle. For such applications, we need a special type of motor with such a special arrangement that causes the m ...
Hi Guys! Hope you are doing fine. Today, I am going to give you a detailed Introduction to Transistor. A transistor is a semiconductor device that comes with three terminals, where a small current at one terminal is used to control current at the other terminals. Transistors are mainly used for the amplification of electronic signals. Transistors were first invented by American Physicists John Bardeen in 1947.
Before the inception of transistors, vacuum tubes were used to control the electronic signals. These vacuum tubes come with anode & cathode arrangement and the potential difference across these ends produces the electric current. In the later versions, a filament is added which is used to provide heat to the cathode that directs the electrons towards the anode side. Their complex ...
Hi Friends! Hope you’re well today. Happy to see you around. In this post, I’ll walk you through How to Install PCBWay Plugin for KiCAD PCB Software.
Before we move further, let’s get a brief overview of KiCAD PCB Software.
KiCAD is a free and open-source electronic design application mainly developed to draw schematics and PCB layouts. It is open-source which means anyone can use it to develop and modify electronic designs. The tool can effortlessly run on Windows, macOS and Linux. The main window of the application comes with 8 different software tools used to make PCB layouts and schematics.
Hope you’ve got a sneak peek at the software. Now we’ll get to know how to install the PCBWay Plugin for KiCAD.
How to install PCBWay Plugin for KiCAD PCB Software?
When you install ...
Socket size is the main factor for homeowners, DIYers, and also for mechanics and enthusiasts. The socket size mentioned in numbers helps to use tools for certain projects, like for bolt head tightening or furniture assembly. In this tutorial, we will cover details for socket size charts
and different socket sizes that help to find differences between SAE and metric sockets and wrench sizes. So let's get started.
What is a socket?
The socket is a tool or instrument that is connected at one end of a ratchet that is used for tightening or loosening fasteners through turning. The working of the socket is performed in conjunction with ratchets.
The socket snaps on one end of the ratchet due to the square drive connector. The other end socket is fitted at the position with a fastener.
Rat ...
Hi Friends! Hope you’re well today. Today, I am going to share the Proteus Library of Current Sensor WCS1600. This sensor is not available in the Proteus Components Library and we’re sharing it for the first time. The Current Sensor WCS1600 is used to measure the current flowing through the circuit and is used in embedded systems and robotics projects. If you are new to this sensor, you must first design its simulation before playing with the hardware.
Before we move further, let’s have a brief overview of WCS1600 Current Sensor:What is WCS1600 Current Sensor?
WCS1600 comes with a drift linear hall sensor IC which gives precise and accurate values. The hall sensor IC is 9.0 mm in diameter through the hole and is incorporated with a temperature compensation circuit. To measure the p ...
For Apple executives, getting into finance is a smart way to make money in new areas and not rely just on selling iPhones and computers anymore, especially since those markets are getting crowded. But more importantly, it fits perfectly with what Apple has always done: making things super easy and convenient for users.
Who doesn’t enjoy the convenience: Instead of having a bunch of different apps for wallets and banks, you could just use Apple for everything. Millions of people already trust Apple with their credit cards and money on their phones, so it makes sense.
Even though some people were confused at first about Apple getting into finance, the reasons actually make a lot of sense. It's a strategic move to make Apple the number one brand for everything in your life, not just devices ...
Hello readers, I hope your all are doing great. We know that a Raspberry Pi Pico module comes with multiple inbuilt features for example onboard memory, processing units, GPIOs or General Purpose Input Outputs (used to control and receive inputs from various electronic peripherals) etc.
In our previous tutorials, we discussed how to access GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi Pico module for both input as well as output operations.
In this tutorial, we are going to discuss another important feature of the Raspberry Pi Pico module (RP2040) which is Dual Core Processor. The Pico board features with 133MHz ARM Cortex-M0+, Dual Core Processor. This dual-core feature makes the Pico module capable of multiple thread execution or multithreading.
Now before writing the MicroPython program let’s first un ...
Hello Friends, welcome back to the second tutorial of ‘Android Application Development’ by ‘The Engineering Projects’. I hope you guys are fine and enjoying your lives. In the previous tutorial, we have seen How to Get started with android studio. Today, we are going to have a look at How to install Android studio on your computers. Its a beginner level tutorial and is quite essential for beginners. Because when you plan to start learning some new software then its correct installation and environment setup is the main key. When you are going to start with the installation of any platform, first of all, what you need to do is to set up the environment in proper way. So that's why, today we are going to cover the installations of all the software r ...
Hello everyone! I hope you all will be fine and having fun. Today, I am going to give you a detailed Introduction to MAX232. It is an Integrated Circuit(IC) embedded in a single chip and acts as a voltage-level converter. MAX 232 is capable of converting 5V TTL Logic level to TIA/EIA-232-F level and can take up to +-30V input. It is normally used for the communication between microcontroller and Laptop/PC.We can use MAX-232 to convert Transistor Transistor Logic (TTL) voltage level to RS232 and vice versa. RS232 is the method of transferring data using serial communication. MAX 232 is a dual receiver or driver having a capacitive voltage generator to supply RS232 voltage levels from a single supply of 5V. Each receiver converts RS232 inputs to 5V either Transistor Transistor Logic (TTL) ...
