Articles & Blogs

What if you could have a custom antenna shipped to you in days, not weeks, without NRE costs, tooling charges or minimum order requirements? You can!

BLDC motors, generally used in more demanding applications, provide higher efficiency, longer lifespan, and higher torque per weight ratio than DC motors.

What can be done to combat the release of hazardous materials into our environment and allow continued progress along this electronics evolution path?

Trinamic wants to inspire engineers and medical companies by providing an open source hardware reference design for ventilators.

High power applications require accurate current measurements at high common-mode voltages. Riedon’s SSA Smart Current Sensors are ideal for this.

Cellular connected use cases range from complex host processor applications to standalone sensors.

The Renesas Advanced (RA) Family MCUs are based on 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M cores and are designed on common DNA, making them feature- and pin-compatible.

TE Connectivity’s Weather Shield used with Digi International’s Micropython capable XBee3 wireless modules makes a great wireless sensor prototyping platform.

TE’s sliding power connector allows for hot swapping of components in a server drawer and utilizes PCBs to transmit power directly to the on-board components.

MPS and DigiKey discuss EMI in DC/DC converter switching designs in a webinar “Understand EMI Issues in Power Design and How to Best Mitigate”.

In this blog, Scott presents a “how to” for building a low-cost water level detector.

What do you get when you combine a reliable direct PCB press-fit contact with a connector that can easily be plugged and detached? Find out in this blog.

GaN is making inroads into power design. This blog provides some background and some relevant GaN products and resources now available at DigiKey.

Cellular connected use cases range from complex host processor applications to standalone sensors.

Air quality can have an adverse impact on people’s health, so monitoring of air quality has become increasingly important and commonplace.

The SEK-SHTxx/SGP30 evaluation kit provides flexibility and efficiency when evaluating Sensirion’s sensors. The evaluation kit contains five sensors.

NX1P2 CPUs are entry level controllers in Omron’s Sysmac machine automation platform. The controllers are fully capable compact models.

A unique user interface has been developed by Grayhill that combines a ring encoder and a touch sensitive color display.

Neonode offers their zForce® touch sensor technology that has the ability to bring touch and gesture control to any surface.

A quick look at TDK’s ICP-10100 barometric and temperature sensor and associated development board.