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Teardown: Inside the TP-Link Archer C7 wireless router

February 21, 2018 By Lee Teschler 1 Comment

Here is what the architecture of modern-day dual-speed Ethernet/Wi-Fi router looks like these days. TP-Link’s Archer C7 dual-speed wireless router delivers 1,300 Mbps over the 5 GHz band and 450 Mbps over the 2.4 GHz band. That should be enough bandwidth for HD streaming, online gaming and other bandwidth-intensive tasks. The idea behind using two […]

Filed Under: Applications, Featured, Microcontroller Tips, Teardowns, Wireless Tagged With: qualcomm, Skyworks, spansion, teardown

Teardown: Inside Amazon’s Echo Dot

January 5, 2018 By Lee Teschler Leave a Comment

Echo Dot

The Amazon Echo Dot is essentially the top portion of the Amazon Echo, but without the speaker underneath it. Eliminating the big speaker drops the price of the from $180 for the Echo to $50 for the Echo Dot. The Echo Dot does have its own speaker, but the speaker is comparable to what you […]

Filed Under: Featured, Microcontroller Tips, Teardowns Tagged With: integratedsiliconsolution, mediatek, micron, texasinstrumentsinc

Teardown: Inside Sphero’s R2-D2 toy

December 6, 2017 By Lee Teschler Leave a Comment

Sphero’s R2-D2 toy

Our teardown of R2-D2 shows what’s inside this little droid with a big personality. One of the hot new toys released in advance of the new Star Wars movie is R2-D2 by Sphero, the same toymaker that developed the BB8 for the 2015 Star Wars sequel called The Force Awakens. As with the BB8, R2 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Teardowns

Teardown: The Apple Sport watch

September 29, 2017 By Lee Teschler Leave a Comment

Apple recently came out with the Series 3 version of its watch. We can get an idea of how the Series 3 goes together from a teardown analysis of Apple’s earlier Sport model. The Sport model we analyzed has an aluminum case but the watch is also available in stainless steel. It measures about 39 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Microcontroller Tips, Teardowns Tagged With: analogdevices, STMicroelectronics, texasinstrumentsinc

Teardown: The super-adjustable Ketra A20 LED bulb

August 4, 2017 By Lee Teschler Leave a Comment

Ketra unapologetically charges $100 for its A20 LED bulb, and the bulb needs a controller to work. Here’s what you find inside the bulb that makes it worth the premium price. A tunable A20-style LED light bulb from Ketra, in Austin, Tex., may be the world’s most expensive classic LED bulb. It lists at about […]

Filed Under: Power Electronic Tips, Teardowns Tagged With: ketra

Video Teardown: Could Mr. Robot have really hacked the Steel Mountain HVAC system?

May 28, 2017 By Lee Teschler Leave a Comment

TV viewers who tuned into episode five (having the catchy title “eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv”) of Mr. Robot watched the main character employ a hack that destroyed magnetic tape data backups held at Evil Corp.’s Steel Mountain facility. Technology-literate viewers might wonder whether the events of episode five could really unfold in real life the way writers envisioned […]

Filed Under: Featured, Teardowns Tagged With: teardown

Teardown: The electronics of Hello Barbie

April 27, 2017 By Lee Teschler

Parents leery of privacy invasion have little to fear from Barbie, whose language skills mainly reside in the cloud. There’s been a lot of discussion in the media about privacy and home appliances that listen to conversations. The Hello Barbie doll is a voice-enabled toy that has been part of the controversy. It uses Wi-Fi […]

The post Teardown: The electronics of Hello Barbie appeared first on Microcontroller Tips.

Filed Under: Applications, Embedded, Featured, IoT, Microcontroller Tips, Teardowns Tagged With: gigadevice, Marvell, nuvoton

Teardown: Inside the Anki Overdrive racecar set

March 22, 2017 By Lee Teschler

Robotic race cars make clever use of software and infrared optics to follow lines slyly hidden on the track. Leland Teschler, Executive Editor The Overdrive starter kit we analyzed contains sections of track that can go together in various ways and can even include jumps. An interesting feature of the track is that its sections […]

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Filed Under: Applications, Featured, Microcontroller Tips, Teardowns Tagged With: diodesinc. lineartech, lineartechnology, nordicsemiconductor, philips, stmicro, STMicroelectronics

Teardown: The Garmin Forerunner 220 sport watch and heart monitor

March 9, 2017 By Lee Teschler

Chest-mounted electronics do a more accurate job of counting heart beats than do optical sensors on the wrist. That’s one of the conclusions to come out of a close look at this sport watch aimed at runners. Leland Teschler Executive Editor A sport watch from Garmin called the Forerunner 220 is basically a runner’s watch […]

The post Teardown: The Garmin Forerunner 220 sport watch and heart monitor appeared first on Microcontroller Tips.

Filed Under: Applications, Consumer, Featured, IoT, Medical, Microcontroller Tips, Teardowns, Wearables Tagged With: garmin, infineon, lineartech, lineartechnology, macronix, mediatek, nordicsemiconductor, nxp, pericomsemiconductor, texasinstrumentsinc, ti

Video Teardown: What’s inside Ikea’s TRADFRI smart lightbulb?

February 14, 2017 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

A new LED bulb from the furniture maker Ikea of Sweden comes with its own remote controller which mounts to the wall and uses Bluetooth to switch the bulb on and off, adjust bulb color temperature and dimming level. One interesting point about the bulb: It uses two separate strings of LEDs, apparently as a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Power Electronic Tips, Teardowns Tagged With: ikea

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