An animated Advent window

By mvuilleu, in DIY, december 12,2014.

For Advent, we were asked to decorate a "lighted window" as part of a local street animation. We decided to do this decoration as a shadow play. This offers us the opportunity to show you different methods to animate a window display with Yoctopuce modules, with a video demonstration.

New tools to update your modules

By Sébastien Rinsoz, in Programming, december 05,2014.

Until now, the only way to update a Yoctopuce module was to use the VirtualHub. Since version 18640 of our libraries, you can update your module firmware with the Yoctopuce libraries. We also published an Android application enabling you to update your modules. Let's have a look at these new ways of updating.

A WiFi desk lamp

By martinm, in DIY and Internet of Things, november 28,2014.

Do you remember the USB desk lamp? This week, we present a WiFi version. It so happens that some new modules appeared since the time the making of the USB version, which make it quite easy to build this improved version.

New: Micro-USB-Hub-v2

By martinm, in New stuff, november 21,2014.

This week, we announce the Micro-USB-Hub-V2. It's a new USB 2.0 hub. It is fully compatible with the first version, it is better, and it even costs a little bit less :-)

Controlling XBMC with a Yocto-Display

By Sébastien Rinsoz, in Tiny PC and Programming, november 12,2014.

We showed you previously how to use a Yoctopuce screen to display information coming from Internet, such as an RSS feed or Google Calendar events. Today, we are going to show you how you can use a Yocto-Display to build an active control panel for an XBMC media center.