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Voice typing feature is quite common to mobile phones; it is considered faster and user-friendly to those who find it difficult to type to input the question about which they need information. If typing fast is required or your handicap, this feature works the best for you. In this article, we will input voice via an Android App and the output will be displayed on LCD using Raspberry Pi. This requires a 16x 2 LCD with Raspberry Pi which is equipped with Bluetooth to receive inputs from the mobile phone. Start with Connecting 16x2 LCD with Raspberry Pi: Setting Bluetooth is preceded by interfacing 16x 2 LCD with Raspberry Pi. Bluetooth setup, first we will interface 16x2 LCD as Raspberry Pi accessory. External

All the electronic products have to use PCB to function, so there is a consensus that the trend of PCB market almost indicates the dynamic of the electronic industry. With the development of phone, laptop and PDA and the other advanced, small-sized electronic products like the wearable devices, the demands for flexible printed circuit boards are increasingly growing. PCB manufacturers are focused to create thinner, lighter and higher-density FPC to seize this thriving market. Under the background, I consider it necessary to write about the differences between single-sided flex PCB, double-sided flex PCB and multilayer flex PCB, whether for the PCB fabricators or the open source hardware makers who are likely to buy

Raspberry Pi touch Screen monitor is widely used by the Raspberry Pi fans. They can make Raspberry Pi tablet, game console, TV display with the Raspberry Pi touch screen. Raspberry Pi touch screen is one of the hottest items on Elecrow product list, no matter it's on our own store or on Amazon. Let's see what customers used it for and what's their experiences. Watch TV on Raspberry Pi Screen(Display)

We met lots of  Elecrow Japanese customers face to face during the Maker Faire Shenzhen, and found some interesting projects. It's really exciting and amazing to see so many customers at one time. I will show you the photos and some simple introduction of the projects. Part One- Visiting Maker Faire Booth

When a PCB layout and routing is completed and both the connectivity and spacing are inspected without faults, does it mean the PCB design is succeeded and finished? Of course no. A final inspection is often ignored or neglected by some new engineers, this is likely to result in some bugs or problems in prototyping or even re-prototyping, such as the sockets getting too close, or loop signal and so on. Therefore, a final inspection is a must-do thing of PCB layout. A good final inspection process involves lots of specific steps, here listed some steps that I found quite important but easy to be ignored. 1.Footprint 1). Pads spacing. For the new components, it’s necessary

Christmas is the most important festival for many people. As a maker or electronic engineer, how can we celebrate Christmas in our own special way? Before Christmas 2016, we held a Christmas PCB Contest in Elecrow facebook group, there were several fascinating projects.                                                                                                                          As we did before, Elecrow provided

1. The overlap of the welding plates. a. The overlap of welding plates means the holes are overlapped, when multiple drilling happens to one position, it would result in the damage of hole. b. Overlap of two holes in a multi-layer board will cause it scrapped. 2. The abuse of graphics layer. a. Doing some useless connection in the graphics layer is easily misunderstood, for example, a design for 4 layer PCB uses the circuit of 5 layer PCB or even above. b. In violation of conventional design, such as, the side of electronic parts is designed at the Bottom layer, and the welding side is designed at the Top layer, these all will cause troubles. 3. The characters are in a mess.

The basic principle for the whole process of PCB design is: make the whole design beautiful as much as possible on the basis of following the requirements of product electrical and mechanical structure, keep the layout of electronic parts uniform and orderly in the printed circuit board. Here are the items and tips you should check:

1. PCB size must be consistent with the size of processing drawings and follow the PCB manufacturing requirements.
2. Check if the electronic components are conflicting in the two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces.
3. Is the distribution of electronic components in a well-organized, neat manner?
4. Is it easy to replace the components that are frequently replaced? Is the plug-in

1. Avoid the input end getting too close to the output end, especially in the case of high gain. For the following reasons: 1) When it is a positive amplifier, being too close would generate the parasitic capacitance - positive feedback loop – then cause the shock; this shock is independent of the input signal, that is, it could happen without input. The frequency of this shock depends on the circuit structure and parasitic capacitance and other factors, most of the time it’s over 1MHz. However, with the changes of parasitic capacitance, what would be caused is not only the circuit shock, sometimes the situation of work instability and deterioration would happen. 2) When it’s the opposite amplifier, the Miller effect is generated, which would cause the deterioration