Category Electronics

Seven segment display counter

A seven segment display is typically used to display numbers from 0-9. It consists of 7 bar segments and a dot( 8 Segments). They are numbered A to F and DP for the dot or decimal place. There are 2 types…

Plus/minus supply using LMC7660

LM 7660 is a CMOS voltage convertor capable of converting a positive voltage in the range of +1.5 v – 10 v to the corresponding negative voltage of -1.5v to -10v using very few external components. Below is the schematic…

Bicycle USB Charger

This circuit has been developed to add a USB charging port to a bicycle for charging a mobile phone. The input supply for the circuit is produced by a dynamo (6V, 3W dynamo) in the bicycle. The circuit is based…

Light Sensor using Arduino

Introduction In this project, a simple light sensor is designed using LDR. The project is built around Arduino. Components required Arduino UNO Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) 100 KΩ POT Buzzer Circuit Diagram Working A 100 KΩ POT and the LDR…

What is Omega 2 Board?

Omega 2 board is the development boards from Onion. It comes packed with built-in Wi-Fi and on-board flash storage. You do not have to worry about buying Wi-Fi dongles or installing operating system images onto external SD cards. Using the…

Make your own Li-ion power bank

Introduction There are many ways to make a Li-ion power bank. We will here use 3.7v Li-ion rechargeable battery and few other modules. You can purchase the battery from ebay or Aliexpress or extract from your old laptop battery. This power…