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Teardown: The super-adjustable Ketra A20 LED bulb

August 4, 2017 By Lee Teschler

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

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 […]

The post Teardown: Inside the
Anki Overdrive racecar set
appeared first on Microcontroller Tips.

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

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

Teardown: Inside a $50 smart phone, the Blu R1 HD

December 20, 2016 By Lee Teschler

The online retailer Amazon made headlines when it introduced a super-inexpensive smart phone from Blu Products in Miami called the R1 HD. The media splash arose because Amazon Prime members could get the phone for as little as $50 if they were willing to put up with seeing ads on the phone’s lock screen. With […]

The post Teardown: Inside a $50 smart phone,
the Blu R1 HD
appeared first on Microcontroller Tips.

Filed Under: Applications, Consumer, Featured, Microcontroller Tips, Teardowns

Video Teardown: Inside the Osram Lightify LED smart connected light

December 15, 2016 By Lee Teschler

 How do you rig up an LED bulb so it works on the internet of things? That’s the question we try to answer in this teardown of a smart LED bulb and gateway from Osram Sylvania. In a nutshell, it is a tale of two different technologies with the LED bulb power functions built […]

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

Teardown: Does the Amazon Dash set the tone for IoT appliances?

November 6, 2016 By Lee Teschler

Amazon’s push-button-ordering gizmo could be a harbinger of things to come on the Internet of Things. But is it a hacker’s dream? Lee Teschler – Executive Editor lteschler@wtwhmedia.com…

The post Teardown: Does the Amazon Dash
set the tone for IoT appliances?
appeared first on Microcontroller Tips.

Filed Under: Applications, IoT, Microcontroller Tips, Teardowns Tagged With: amazon, leeteschler

Teardown: Inside a cable modem

September 30, 2016 By Lee Teschler

The device which brings cable TV and high-speed internet into homes has a simple design but sports a couple of tricky secrets. Lee Teschler Executive Editor If you’ve…

The post Teardown: Inside a cable modem appeared first on Microcontroller Tips.

Filed Under: Embedded, Featured, Industry Experts, Microcontroller Tips, Teardowns Tagged With: scientificatlanta

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