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...

Yoctopuce is no longer on Google Play

By seb august 09,2024.

We would like to inform you of a change concerning the distribution of our Android applications. From now on, Yoctopuce does no longer publish its applications on Google Play. This decision is the result of new conditions imposed by Google, and we'd like to explain why and how you can continue using our applications.

The quest for the perfect USB battery, part 1

By martinm, in Reviews, august 02,2024.

10-12 years ago, you could buy a USB battery for 10-20 euros, and use it to power a Yoctopuce experiment without asking yourself too many questions. Unfortunately, today it's very hard to find a USB battery that can power a Yocto-Wireless or YoctoHub-GSM-based experiment. So we decided to invest some time, and money, in trying to find a good one.

Testing the Renesas FS3000 air speed sensor

By mvuilleu, in Reviews and Measures, july 26,2024.

Renesas recently released a new I2C sensor that caught our eye: a tiny miniature sensor for measuring airflow velocity. It's a measure we're interested in, because many industrial processes need well-regulated ventilation to run reproducibly, and progressive clogging of filters can significantly affect ventilation capabilities. Let's take a look at this sensor...