Design you own beam-forming microphone array, or come up with a novel application for this integrated one. DSP Codecs Use Beamforming to Optimize Voice Signals | Embedded content from Electronic Design.
Category Archives: Analog (high level)
Build A Wrist Heart-Rate Monitor Using An Ultra-Low-Power MCU | Digital ICs content from Electronic Design
PMOD – Modular I/O boards
Inexpensive digital oscilloscope.
No screen, for use with computer but potentially very useful for projects.
https://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,842,1018&Prod=ANALOG-DISCOVERY
Understanding analog to digital converter specifications | Embedded
Inexpensive 3d Gesture recognition
MGC3130. The MGC3130 is the world’s first electrical-field (E-field) based three-dimensional (3D) tracking and gesture controller. The chip is based on Microchip’s patented GestIC® technology and enables user command input with natural hand and finger movements in free-space. The GestIC Colibri Suite is processed on-chip and enables a wide range of gesture applications shortening development cycles of developers. Through its configurable sensing states mobile friendly power consumption as low as 150 microwatts can be realized.
Accurate Power Measurement (AC Power)
Articles with background on AC Power measurement
Accurate Power Measurement in Smart Meters, Part I: Design Considerations
Accurate Power Measurement in Smart Meters, Part II: Specifying Components
Field programmable analog circuitry.
Anadigm® makes a field programmable analog array that allows for dynamic synthesis of analog circuits (much as an FPGA does for digital circuits). This might be useful as a general purpose signal conditioner – or perhaps used with a genetic algorithm for analog circuit design.