Articles - Wireless - 2

Bitcraze The Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter is a miniature quadcopter that fits in your hand. It only weights about 19 grams and is 9 cm motor-to-motor. Aside from being fun to fly, it’s main purpose is to be a versatile development platform that ...

Kris Lokere, Linear Technology EDN Introduction The “Internet of Things” refers to a growing trend to connect not only people and computers, but all sorts of “things” to the Internet. In applications such as industrial ...

Tom Gratzek, Analog Devices EDN Software-defined radio (SDR) is an increasingly viable and important communications system. In principle, it allows a single hardware design to support communications across a variety of formats, protocols, and ...

John Donovan Low-Power Design When I was a boy I loved flying model airplanes. I’d laboriously build them from balsawood kits; cover them with tissue; and add a noisy .049 gas engine. Then I’d go to the neighborhood schoolyard and get ...

Wireless networks originate from an array of wireless technologies, such as Wi-Fi 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, Z-Wave, WirelessHART/Dust Networks, ISA 100a, multiple versions of 802.15.4, and a mix of ISM-band-based (industrial, scientific, and ...

I'm not into cars to such an extent that I have an OBD-II analyzer in my toolkit. But when I discovered Chinese sources for $9-$20 USB Bluetooth adapters, I couldn't say no. Actually, my search for OBD capability was inspired by a ...

John Donovan Digi-Key With more and more consumer, medical, and industrial devices communicating wirelessly, the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) is set to explode over the next several years. Many, if not most, of these devices will be ...

WirelessHD WirelessHD is based on the 60-GHz technology originally developed by SiBEAM, which Silicon Image acquired in 2011. The original specification became WirelessHD. It is maintained and promoted by the WirelessHD Consortium, a special ...

Technology finally makes millimeter waves practical to use, enabling the continued growth of wireless communications before we run out of spectrum. Millimeter waves occupy the frequency spectrum from 30 GHz to 300 GHz. They’re found in the ...

Part 1 NFC Applications NFC has many potential uses. However, the primary target application is mobile payments. Instead of using a credit card, customers at stores and other venues will use their NFC-embedded smart phone as the payment device. ...