This revolutionary technology is making TVs brighter and more colorful over a longer period of time. Luminus LEDs used in Samsung, LG projectors Luminus Devices has announced that its PhlatLight LEDs are powering two of the newest portable LED-based projectors, the Samsung P400 pocket imager and LG Electronics’ HS-102 ultra-mobile projector. Both projectors are lamp-free, [...]

“EMITER” Macedonian magazine for popularization and application of science and technique finaly have a web page you can view on this link:  http://www.emiter.com.mk

The University of Tokyo developed the “organic flash memory,” a non-volatile memory that has the same basic structure as a flash memory and is made with organic materials. The erasing and reading voltages of the new flash memory are as low as 6V and 1V, respectively. Data can be written in and erased from the [...]

Welcome to definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009. First up – What is open source hardware? These are projects in which the creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and “board” files to recreate the hardware – they also allow any [...]

Atmel Corp. has released  a new family of AVR® wireless microcontroller (MCU) devices targeting wireless applications such as ZigBee® and IPv6/6LoWPAN. The ATmega128RFA1 is IEEE 802.15.4 compliant and combines Atmel’s picoPower® AVR MCU and a 2.4 GHz RF transceiver. Atmel’s picoPower technology offers ultra-low power consumption to ultimately enable longer battery life for wireless ZigBee [...]

Panasonic just bought a controlling stake in Sanyo for $4.6 billion to form a Voltron of consumer electronics that’s the second biggest in Japan, behind Hitachi. Source: Gizmodo Panasonic buys majority stake in Sanyo-BBC News Panasonic buys 50.2% of Sanyo for US$4.6-billion – FinancialPost

Electronic business card / scroll display. 85 SMD 0805 led’s matrix display, Atmega88V uController, and couple of other smd parts. Dimensions are 24mm x 85mm, supplied from 3V small coin battery. It will work for long time, even on discharged battery (2V). After button is pressed, device is waking-up from power-down mode and start scrolling [...]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEHNIK SERVICE It’s been two years since we launched Tehnik Service and we never expected it to have the enormous success it’s had. Beside that my baby girl Elizabeta is celebrating its first (1) birthday. Ili  na naso kazano Sreken Rodenden. Aj saa da odam da praam TORTA:)

Quick guide to assembling firmware with MPLAB This is a very quick guide to allow you to assemble and generate the programmer HEX files from source code files downloaded from the Picprojects website.  It’s not a comprehensive guide to using the MPLAB IDE and it’s not intended to be… Source: Picprojects

Company says its new silver-based ink can be used to print electronic circuitry on everything from flexible e-book screens to pill bottles. The Xerox process actually requires printing three layers on a substrate: a semiconductor, a conductor and a dielectric. The silver ink is the layer that conducts electricity. Source: Stephen Shankland

This device uses PIC16C54 to control a triac. One push-button has the UP (increase) function, second one has the DOWN function and the third one is for ON-OFF. Button ON will increase the number on LED display from 00 to 99 which represents triac firing in percentages. Triac can power universal load such as light [...]