The Primo is the latest Arduino board that offers a broad spectrum of wireless capabilities, including WiFi, BLE, NFC, and IR, with all but WiFi implemented by the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52832 SoC which is a multi-protocol radio device with a 64MHz ARM Cortex-M4F processor with floating point DSP extension. … Read more
Recently I have been doing some research to discover how to design and develop my own battery powered customised wireless sensors to monitor and report on various physical quantities such as temperature, smoke, and water level around my home. One of my key design requirements is long lasting battery power to minimise the regular cost and inconvenience of replacing batteries.… Read more
The Microchip® MCP1702 is a low dropout positive voltage regulator with 250mA maximum output current. It accepts a wide range of input voltage from 2.7V to 13.2V and with a low quiescent current consumption of only 2 µA.
It comes with standard output voltage options: 1.2V, 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.5V, 2.8V, 3.0V, 3.3V, 4.0V, 5.0V. … Read more