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How do you track an elephant?

September 24, 2020 By Randy Frank

Very carefully might be your first response but there is a technical answer as well. The technical answer involves a design challenge called ElephantEdge to create the world’s most advanced tracker to protect elephants in their natural habitats from poachers, trophy hunters and habitat destruction. Supported by Hackster.io, an Avnet community, and Smart Parks, a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) Tagged With: Avnet

What is a Sensor HAT?

August 22, 2020 By Randy Frank

HAT is a three-letter acronym (TLA) for hardware attached on top: the terminology used for a hardware specification for add-on modules for the Raspberry Pi model B+. With a HAT, no soldering is required, so the module simply plugs onto the Raspberry Pi. Taking advantage of this design concept and the popularity of the Raspberry […]

Filed Under: Chemical Sensor, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) Tagged With: Avnet

How can you learn to use a digital output humidity+temperature sensor?

February 27, 2018 By Randy Frank

With Avnet’s four-part MiniZed SpeedWay Design Workshops™ interactive series of video presentations, using its MiniZed™ Zynq SoC development kit, interested participants learn techniques to integrate the HTU21D sensing peripheral module from TE Connectivity as part of the training.  The development kit is a prototyping platform for embedded vision and Industrial IoT systems. Design Workshops are […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Humidity, Temperature Tagged With: Avnet, TE Connectivity

How can you win $100,000 with a sensing technology idea?

September 21, 2017 By Randy Frank

asu innovation

If you are a college student or student team with an idea on how to implement sensing and/or electronics technology to provide an innovative product or problem solution, you should enter the 2018 ASU Innovation Open (ASUio). The 2018 ASU Innovation Open (ASUio) is a multi-round competition that supports student ventures from across the United […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) Tagged With: Arizona State University, ASU, Avnet, InvenSense, Rigado, Somatic Labs, TDK, Texas Instruments

The evolution of liquid level sensing

November 17, 2015 By Editor

by Matt Burns, Technical Marketing Director, Sensors, Avnet There are multiple ways for engineers to measure and keep track of liquids in a container, and one will fit your application. Anyone who lives near a river or creek knows the anxiety that can happen during a thunderstorm, when rising water levels can cause high stress […]

Filed Under: Capacitive, laser, Level, Liquid Level, Ultrasonic Tagged With: Avnet

Solution for Developing IoT Applications

June 19, 2013 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2013, Jim Carver, technical director of advanced architectures for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, discusses the Avnet Wi-Go System for developing wireless connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT) that uses Freescale Semiconductor’s sensors and microcontroller. System demos show magnetometer, gyroscope and accelerometer capabilities in three different modes. To watch the video, click […]

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Featured, Gyroscope, Magnetic sensor, Sensor Fusion Tagged With: Avnet, Freescale Semiconductor

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