All intelligent thermostats, factory sensors, and soil probes depend on an IoT network in order to send their readings to a useful destination. Otherwise, the readings stay stuck on the chip. This guide explains how everything fits together by going over the various layers, protocols, and gateways that connect them. You'll find out how to carry out the tests yourself on your own bench. What Is an IoT Network and How Does It Connect Devices? An IoT network consists of a number of physical objects that sense information, send it, and take action via common connections. Sensors take the measurements, radios transmit the readings, and a remote server stores and analyzes them. It all seems simple. Yet every decision you make affects the range, battery life, and cost. The scale is enormous. Stat ...
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Most people think of the forex spread as a fixed number, like the price tag on a shirt. It's not. It's more like the price of a taxi: cheap and easy at noon, surprisingly expensive in a storm or at 3 a.m. when there are hardly any drivers around. To really understand it, let's spend a whole day with the world's most traded currency pair, EUR/USD, and watch how its spread changes from hour to hour. All times below are in London time, and the spreads are illustrative, not quotes from any specific broker. Sunday, 10 PM: The Nervous Open The market reopens after the weekend. Banks in Sydney and Wellington are waking up, but most of the world is still asleep. Liquidity is thin. Prices may jump, or "gap," from where they closed on Friday. The spread is at its widest of the week. Something that m ...
Claude Code can already read code, explain functions, suggest changes and help developers work through technical problems. The more interesting question is how teams can make that assistance repeatable. Instead of writing a detailed prompt every time a familiar task appears, developers can use skills that provide persistent instructions for specific workflows. A skills marketplace for Claude Code and Cowork makes it possible to discover reusable skills for different development tasks rather than creating every workflow from scratch. What is a Claude Code skill? A skill is a set of structured instructions that teaches an AI agent how to approach a particular task. In the SKILL.md format, those instructions are stored in a Markdown file with YAML frontmatter that helps describe when the skil ...
Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share the new ESP-01 Wi-Fi Library for Proteus V1.1 . The ESP-01 is the tiny black ESP8266 board that gives an Arduino Wi-Fi: with a handful of AT commands, your sketch can join a router, serve a web page to a phone, or upload sensor readings to the cloud. With this ESP-01 Library for Proteus , you can build and debug those IoT projects on your PC, without a 3.3 V supply, a router or an internet account. In this new version, you get two devices in one library: ESP-01 Simple , which draws a virtual smartphone on the schematic, and ESP-01 Advance , which opens a pop-up window with the phone and four real Wi-Fi test tools (Wi-Fi join, web request, cloud upload and AT check). I am also sharing a complete Arduino ESP8266 Proteu ...
Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share the new NEO-M8N GNSS Library for Proteus V1.1 . The u-blox NEO-M8N is the GPS module of choice for drones, robots and trackers, because it listens to GPS and GLONASS at the same time . More satellites mean a faster, steadier and more accurate position, especially between buildings. With this NEO-M8N Library for Proteus , you can test your GNSS sketches on your PC and actually measure how much the second satellite system helps. In this version, you get two devices : NEO-M8N Simple , with a GNSS screen drawn on the schematic, and NEO-M8N Advance , with a pop-up window that holds the screen and five measured GNSS test tools . The star of this article is the Constellations test, which runs GPS only, GLONASS only and GPS ...
Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share the new NEO-7M GPS Library for Proteus V1.1 . The u-blox NEO-7M is the next step after the famous NEO-6M: it is the same size and talks to your Arduino the same way, but it can also use the Russian GLONASS satellites instead of GPS. With this NEO-7M Library for Proteus , you can test your GPS sketches on your PC, switch between GPS and GLONASS with one click, and see for yourself which system works better where your project will live. In this version, you get two devices : NEO-7M Simple , with a GPS screen drawn on the schematic, and NEO-7M Advance , with a pop-up window that holds the GPS screen and five measured GNSS test tools : time to first fix, accuracy, NMEA check, route and a new Constellations test that puts ...
Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share the new SIM800L GSM Library for Proteus V1.1 . The SIM800L is the small GSM module that lets an Arduino send and receive SMS and make phone calls, so it is used in almost every "control it from my phone" project: home automation, alarms, trackers and remote switches. With this SIM800L Library for Proteus , you can build and test those projects on your PC, without a SIM card, a 2 A power supply or a 2G network. In this new version, you get two devices in one library: SIM800L Simple , which draws a virtual smartphone on the schematic, and SIM800L Advance , which opens a pop-up window with the phone and four real GSM test tools (network registration, SMS round trip, call test and AT check). I am also sharing a complete ...
Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share a list of Must-Have Proteus Libraries for Arduino Simulation . Whatever your project is, a GSM alarm, a weather station or a line follower, its Proteus simulation always needs the same basic things: an Arduino board, a way to see what the code is printing, a display, maybe a real-time clock, a driver for motors and something to power the circuit. These are the libraries you will install once and use in almost every project. Proteus does have some of these parts in its own library, but often in a very basic form. Our versions look like the real boards and modules, which makes your circuit diagrams and project reports much clearer, and our new TEP Serial Monitor replaces the small Proteus Virtual Terminal with a modern ...
Hello friends, I hope you are doing well. This is the twentieth and final tutorial in our series on how to create a Proteus library. In the previous tutorial, How to Test a Custom Proteus Library with Arduino , our parts passed their first real test: an Arduino UNO ran a traffic light sketch on them, the push button requested a pedestrian phase, and the control panel caught a configuration mistake at a glance. The library works on our PC. Today, we make it work on everybody else's. Our topic is how to package and share your own Proteus library . A Proteus library is not one file. Our three parts live in a device library, their footprint in a package library, two of them need model files, one needs a DLL, and the example project needs a HEX file and an Arduino board that Proteus does not ha ...
