It is sometimes necessary to use a negative voltage in a construction that already has a positive drive voltage. For example, you might want a symmetrical drive voltage for an op-amp that otherwise only consists of logic circuits. Making a circuit that inverts the drive voltage can be a problem, especially in a battery derived equipment. In this circuit, T1 …

This water heating calculator can help you determine both the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of some water (H2O) and the time it will take. It considers the heat capacities of all three states of matter, so it also works if you want to melt the ice or boil water or heat steam. This calculator uses the …

This circuit produces a dc voltage at the output that is almost twice the input voltage. For a 12V input the output is 22.1V @ 20mA. The voltage doubler is based on the charge-pump principle of operation. A charge pump is a kind of DC-to-DC converter that uses capacitors for energetic charge storage to raise or lower voltage. Charge-pump circuits …

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PROBLEM DESCRIPTION I’m using the DS18S20 and DS18B20 in a energy control system. The 1-wire temperature sensors is connected on the same 1-wire bus. Just these two sensors are connected to the bus. The 1-wire is connected to a microcontroller i/o port. To pull down the 1-wire bus, an open drain pulldown transistor and a 1k resistor to +5V are …

In electronics, an LED circuit or LED driver is an electrical circuit used to power a light-emitting diode (LED). The circuit must provide sufficient current to light the LED at the required brightness, but must limit the current to prevent damaging the LED. The voltage drop across an LED is approximately constant over a wide range of operating current; therefore, …

In this tutorial, we will implement a simple temperature logger on the Raspberry Pi 3 and connect four DS18B20 temperature sensors to it. The temperature measurements will be stored in a database along with a time stamp. We have selected InfluxDB as the database engine as this is a time-series database and integrates very easy to Grafana. Grafana will retrieve …

A short review of the MH-Z19 CO2 sensor from Winsen connected to the UART of Raspberry Pi 3.

Introduction to the Raspi GPIO This article focuses on the Raspberry Pi’s with the 40 pin GPIO connector. In addition to the familiar USB, Ethernet and HDMI ports, the Raspberry Pi offers the ability to connect directly to a variety of electronic devices. These include: On the Raspberry Pi’s with the 40 pin connector, 28 of the pins are available …

Tips and tricks about configuring the UART on the Raspberry Pi 3 and Pi Zero W. The introduced bluetooth module makes this a little bit different.....