A decorative IoT and PoE lamp

By martinm, in DIY and Internet of Things, september 13,2024.

To tell you the truth, this week we had planned to continue our series on USB batteries, but it turns out that the associated experiments are taking longer than expected. Actually, this is rather good news, but this also means we had to fall back on an emergency topic...

How to extend an I2C bus

By mvuilleu, in Electronics, september 08,2024.

Following on from our quick tutorial on I2C, we're going to take a closer look at a particular case that often causes problems: the use of long wires for I2C communications. This is particularly true of Yoctopuce sensors that you can split, if you decide to offset the sensor part by several meters.

Support for ARM 64-bit Windows

By seb september 01,2024.

Microsoft has been trying for several years to offer Windows computers with ARM processors, without much commercial success, as very few applications are compatible with this architecture. To solve this problem, Microsoft has added an emulator to Windows 11 that lets you run applications designed to run on Intel processors. We wanted to check that our applications and libraries work correctly with this emulator. They do, but we took the opportunity to add native support for ARM processors.

The quest for the perfect USB battery, part 2

By martinm, in Reviews, august 23,2024.

This week, we're continuing our quest for the ideal USB battery to power systems built with Yoctopuce modules, and we've found a model sold by Waveshare that seems worth a look.

Optimizing automatic watering using sensors

By mvuilleu, in Measures, august 16,2024.

At the beginning of the Summer, we showed you in this blog the installation of a SenseCAP S700 V2 weather station with the aim of collecting data to optimize the watering of a vegetable garden. After a few weeks of measures, it's time to analyze the data collected to see whether or not it provides any useful information...