Brads Electronic Projects Forum

I was in the bookstore today looking for children's books and found: Getting Started with Electronics: Build Electronic Circuits! (Dummies Junior) Kindle Edition by Cathleen Shamieh (Author) This book has 122 pages. It has some fun projects including making a pocket flashlight with an led, a resisto...

Holtek Semiconductor Application Notes Within this page you can find application notes prepared by the HOLTEK engineering teams. The main purpose is to provide information for further understanding of HOLTEK devices and also to assist with product design optimization. http://www.holtek.com.tw/genera...

This is an electronic blogging site:

ARDUINO, FPGA, LED LIGHTING, RESTORATION

https://medium.com/adventures-in-electronics

The LED section is here:

https://medium.com/adventures-in-electr ... d-lighting

A FPGA controlled RGB LED MATRIX for Incredible Effects



https://www.open-electronics.org/a-fpga ... -hardware/

This is really powerful.

Charging Laptop Bursts Into Flames Caught on Tape | ABC News



https://www.cnet.com/news/dell-crazy-ex ... our-fault/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... s-row.html

Asus Tinker Board takes on Raspberry Pi with 4K video and Rockchip processing power Asus Tinkerboard vs Raspberry Pi 3: Specs Asus' offering is powered by a quad-core 1.8GHz Cortex-A17 Rockchip processor alongside a hefty 2GB of DDR3 RAM. By comparison, the Pi 3 is kitted with a 1.2GHz CPU and 1GB o...

Japan will recycle old phones to create medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (This part is true.) https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/olympics-recycled-phones/ "It was announced yesterday that the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will make all of its medals from recycled cellphones. Well, they’re going to ...

The latest "nightmare inducing" Boston Dynamics robots This robot combines wheels with legs to make it faster and more powerful and it balances and is very fast. http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/2/1/14468126/boston-dynamics-new-wheeled-robot-handle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5qpXO3...

Have you heard of any explosions due to a build up of rust before? I'm assuming the actual battery is in a liner. The lithium batteries in the Amazon Kindle are in some kind of liner and are bendable but they are protected in the case. I imagine that having rust compromises the integrity of the bat...

The switch to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio “Radio digitization will open the door to a far greater range of radio channels, benefiting listeners across the country,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/07/norway-will-become-the-first-country-in-the-world-to-switch-off...

I live in a cold part of the hemisphere and we have a humidifier attached to our heater. I left a 18650 Lithium battery in the basement and it already has rust on the ends. While people say that lithium batteries are safe because they are sealed, mine already has rust on the ends. But water and lith...

However, at 13 feet tall (approximately 4 meters) and weighing 1.5 tons, with each metal arm weighing 286 pounds , the robot called “Method-2” is far more astounding than comparable CGI renditions. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/gundam-style-robot-coming-soon-124858595.html Avatar-style S. Korean manne...

Are you a public school teacher in need of funding? Google.org is donating $30 million to non-profits this holiday so that they can buy any tech and related services that they need including hardware, software, training and IT maintenance or repair services. https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/20/google-...

George Westinghouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse


War of Currents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents

This fills in some history.

I've been researching Chromebooks. A Chromebook is essentially an internet storage device and works kind of like a laptop except most come without a CD drive. The old Chromebooks may not have had an SD card so you were dependent on Google Drive to get your files off of the internet. I've had a lot o...