Featured Archives - Open Electronics https://www.open-electronics.org/category/featured/ Open source electronic projects Fri, 03 May 2024 11:59:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://www.open-electronics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/cropped-logo-32x32.jpeg Featured Archives - Open Electronics https://www.open-electronics.org/category/featured/ 32 32 32754084 Join Maker Faire Rome 2024: Innovation Unleashed at Gazometro Ostiense | Calls Now Open! https://www.open-electronics.org/join-maker-faire-rome-2024-innovation-unleashed-at-gazometro-ostiense-calls-now-open/ https://www.open-electronics.org/join-maker-faire-rome-2024-innovation-unleashed-at-gazometro-ostiense-calls-now-open/#respond Fri, 03 May 2024 11:58:55 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=37077 All Calls Now Open for Maker Faire Rome 2024 From 25th to 27th October, the festival on innovation, promoted and organized by the Rome Chamber of Commerce, will return to the Gazometro Ostiense. The calls for Maker Faire Rome 2024 are now open! The event, promoted and organized by the Rome Chamber of Commerce (www.makerfairerome.eu), […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/join-maker-faire-rome-2024-innovation-unleashed-at-gazometro-ostiense-calls-now-open/feed/ 0 37077 Maker Faire Rome – The European edition and FAE Technology launch the contest “MY Maker PCBA: your electronics for a better planet” https://www.open-electronics.org/maker-faire-rome-the-european-edition-and-fae-technology-launch-the-contest-my-maker-pcba-your-electronics-for-a-better-planet/ https://www.open-electronics.org/maker-faire-rome-the-european-edition-and-fae-technology-launch-the-contest-my-maker-pcba-your-electronics-for-a-better-planet/#respond Wed, 21 Jun 2023 13:07:48 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=36377 The initiative rewards the most innovative projects in areas related to environmental sustainability. FAE Technology will manufacture the electronic board prototypes for the top three winners. The contest is organized in collaboration with FAE Technology S.p.A. an Innovative SME operating in the design, prototyping, engineering, and production of integrated electronic solutions, announces the launch of […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/maker-faire-rome-the-european-edition-and-fae-technology-launch-the-contest-my-maker-pcba-your-electronics-for-a-better-planet/feed/ 0 36377 NIXIE STYLE LED DISPLAY https://www.open-electronics.org/nixie-style-led-display/ https://www.open-electronics.org/nixie-style-led-display/#respond Sun, 25 Sep 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=33307 We pick up the fascinating Nixie tubes through displays based on packages of laser-engraved plexiglass plates, illuminated by Neopixel LEDs. For those born in the era of solid-state displays, be they LED, 7-segment, dot-matrix, or even liquid crystal, it is difficult to imagine how text and numbers were displayed before their advent; Well, those who […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/nixie-style-led-display/feed/ 0 33307 One Stop Solution by PCBWay https://www.open-electronics.org/one-stop-solution-by-pcbway/ https://www.open-electronics.org/one-stop-solution-by-pcbway/#respond Tue, 23 Aug 2022 08:25:28 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=35904 PCBWay now offers a full turnkey contract manufacturing service with its strategic alliance partners including product design, product development, engineering validation, PCBA (Printed Circuit Board Assembly) manufacturing service and supply chain management. Mainly focused on EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Service) projects, PCBWay will continue to expand into other areas including ODM (Original Design Manufacturing) and OEM […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/one-stop-solution-by-pcbway/feed/ 0 35904 The flame that doesn’t burn https://www.open-electronics.org/the-flame-that-doesnt-burn/ https://www.open-electronics.org/the-flame-that-doesnt-burn/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=33383 Based on Neopixel and a special ultra-thin Arduino, it simulates the light produced by chimney flames As every year, the approach of the winter season stimulates our imagination and reminds us that electronics can do a lot, not only concretely (creating automatisms for indoor air conditioning) but also for pleasure and leisure; so here are […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/the-flame-that-doesnt-burn/feed/ 1 33383 How to make a custom shape PCB with Eagle https://www.open-electronics.org/how-to-make-a-custom-shape-pcb-with-eagle/ https://www.open-electronics.org/how-to-make-a-custom-shape-pcb-with-eagle/#respond Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:20:26 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=35497 The usual rectangular shaped PCBs got bored. The current prototyping services like PCBWAY allow to create PCBs with different shapes. An excellent software that allows you to get the gerber to be printed is Eagle. With the help of other free software such as Google Sketchup it is possible to create circuits of all shapes. […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/how-to-make-a-custom-shape-pcb-with-eagle/feed/ 0 35497 Control everything remotely with the GSM shield https://www.open-electronics.org/telecontrol-with-gsm-shield/ https://www.open-electronics.org/telecontrol-with-gsm-shield/#respond Mon, 27 Dec 2021 13:45:00 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=33328 We emulate the TDG series remote controls using the GSM Shield. It’s not been long since we presented our GSM shield for GSM/GPRS modules SIMCom, QUECTEL, FIBOCOM etc. that was born to be incorporated in Arduino-based projects involving cellular connectivity; now it’s time to move on to the first practical application, which in this case […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/telecontrol-with-gsm-shield/feed/ 0 33328 Microwave Radar https://www.open-electronics.org/microwave-radar/ https://www.open-electronics.org/microwave-radar/#respond Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=32273 Motion detector based on the Doppler effect, made by combining a specific sensor with a circuit that amplifies the output signal. Now the devices used in presence and movement detection systems, to be combined with automations for opening doors and turnstiles but also with anti-theft and anti-intrusion systems, stand out passive infrared radars (otherwise called […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/microwave-radar/feed/ 0 32273 3DRAG + MOTORFISH: How to prevent step losses in 3D printer https://www.open-electronics.org/3drag-motorfish/ https://www.open-electronics.org/3drag-motorfish/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=33285 It solves the problem of pitch loss that can trouble 3D printers and which, especially in large printers that require many hours to print parts, can mean huge losses of time and money. In previous posts we presented a stepper motor driver, which we named MotorFish, whose special feature is to work in closed loop […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/3drag-motorfish/feed/ 1 33285 Motorfish: The stepper does not misses a step (the Firmware) https://www.open-electronics.org/motorfish-the-stepper-does-not-misses-a-step-the-firmware/ https://www.open-electronics.org/motorfish-the-stepper-does-not-misses-a-step-the-firmware/#respond Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:42:09 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=32501 Let’s describe the firmware of the stepper motor feedback controller and test it on the 3D printer. (Read the first post) In the limits of non-retroactive stepper motor control is that in applications for the drive of machines, CNC milling machines or 3D printers, the positioning can be affected by an error that makes it […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/motorfish-the-stepper-does-not-misses-a-step-the-firmware/feed/ 0 32501 Motorfish: The stepper does not misses a step https://www.open-electronics.org/motorfish-the-stepper-does-not-misses-a-step/ https://www.open-electronics.org/motorfish-the-stepper-does-not-misses-a-step/#respond Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:36:29 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=32466 Controller with stepper motor feedback able to dynamically check the shaft positioning and prevent possible step losses. Who has never happened to launch a complex and long 3D print, maybe a job of hours or dozens of hours, to be absent and discover that, when the job was almost finished, the printer engines lost a […]

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]]> https://www.open-electronics.org/motorfish-the-stepper-does-not-misses-a-step/feed/ 0 32466 “Maker Faire Rome – The European edition” returns to the Gazometro Ostiense https://www.open-electronics.org/maker-faire-rome-the-european-edition-returns-to-the-gazometro-ostiense/ https://www.open-electronics.org/maker-faire-rome-the-european-edition-returns-to-the-gazometro-ostiense/#respond Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:37:41 +0000 https://www.open-electronics.org/?p=35042 Innovation and the general public in contact again! Thanks to the constant progress of the vaccination campaign, “Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition“, the biggest European event dedicated to innovation, promoted and organised by the Chamber of Commerce of Rome, is back on time again this year, but with the great novelty of reopening […]

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