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Rick Sanchez

Electrical engineer

Rick Sanchez

about 1 year ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States
Project - Mobile Controlled ESP32 Two-Wheel Drive Robot | in Basic Circuits

Today’s project is not going to be based on evive. Today, we’re going to make yet another smartphone-controlled robot but this time using ESP32. It can move forward, back, right, left, and doesn’t need Bluetooth! We’re to program it in Pict... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 1 year ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States
Project - FM Radio | in Basic Circuits

Recently, I came across the RDA5807 module which is an FM Radio Tuner in a very tiny package. It is very cheap and uses I2C protocol for communication which means that only two wires will be required to talk to the IC. Less w... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 3 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - ARDUINO I2C SCANNER LIBRARY

The I2CScanner library is instantiated through its constructor. The object contains as variables the address range for Low_Address and High_Address scanning. The object is initialized through the Init () method. There are three families of methods. The Scan methods work in ... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 4 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - LATCH CIRCUIT

This is a simple latch circuit. Press the button once and it will turn on the output. Press the button again, and it will turn off the output. Instead of a push button, you can use a vibration sensor for example, and turn on your devices with the latch each time you sense a vibration. See belo... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 4 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - DIY Simple Frequency Meter Up to 6.5MHz

Another simple to build useful instrument in you lab. The device presented in the video is a frequency meter made using an Arduino Nano microcontroller. It can measure the frequency of signals with rectangular, sinusoidal and triangular shapes. Credit to: Mirko Pavleski

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Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - DIY inverter

What’s up my friends welcome back. Today we will look at a very basic circuit but also quite interesting. If you are into electronics I bet that you’ve heard about inverters. We have the rectifiers that pass AC voltage to DC voltage and then we have the inverters that will pass DC voltage to ... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - MCB - WHY AND HOW DOSE IT WORK?

MCB which stands for miniature circuit breaker and we can have it of 1 pole, 2 pole or more. The main purpose of this device is to break the circuit in these two cases:- First, when we have an over load connected during a certain amount of time.- And second, when we have directly a short circuit.... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - H-bridge RC control

Read the signal from a PWM radio receiver with the Arduino. Then control the speed adn direction of a DC motor with another PWM signal. This is basic, but you can change the code and add more parts.  view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States
Project - Arduino UNO R3 - SCHEMATIC | in Basic Circuits

This is the schematic made with ATMega328p-PU, FT232 IC and MC33269DR2 voltage regulator. Original schematic. view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - DIY ACRYLIC DISPLAY

Well, you could just go to eBay and buy a kit like this one with everything ready for assemble. But that is not as fun as making one. In this tutorial I show you how I've made my own acrylic display with RGB LEDs and adressable LED strip, so we could place multiple displays in series. B... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States
Project - Wearable synth plays programmed or random tunes | in Basic Circuits

Unless you’re very good, personal synths are fun for you — though often quite annoying for onlookers. After making his own wristwatch-based synth in 2016, Clem Mayer decided to build a new version that’s larger and louder than ever, and programmable via an Arduino contro... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - TESLA COIL CONFIGURATIONS

A Tesla coil generates a high frequency high voltage inside of the main coil and that ionize the air at the end of the copper wire and the air will glow due to the created arcs. Depending on the tesla coil power, the arcs could ger bigger. This project is very cool to look at but not just that. I... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - CRYSTAL & CERAMIC RESONATOR, OSCILLATORS

Crystal or ceramic resonator and then we have the oscillator. What is the difference between these 3 elements, why we need them in our circuits, how each of these works and what configurations do we have. In this post we will see all that. I’ll try to explain the main differences between crysta... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - How To Find The Number Of Valence Electrons?

Valence electrons are those electrons that reside in the outermost shell surrounding an atomic nucleus. Valence electrons are of crucial importance because they lend deep insight into an element’s chemical properties: whether it is electronegative or electropositive in nature, or they... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States
Project - MULTI MEASUREMENT DEVICE DIY | in Basic Circuits

In this tutorial I've merged a few sensors together in order to measure distance using infrared light sensors, measure length using a rotary encoder and a 3D printed wheel, measure level with an IMU module but also angles with that same module and finally measure RPMs with another kind of IR sens... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - DIY $150 Electric Longboard

Electric vehicles are cool and there is no doubt about it. Especially electric skateboards! Ever since I saw Casey Neistat riding boosted board I wanted to try this on my own. Price of the boosted is high or even very high so as usually I thought t... view more

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Yes, I'm working on a new portal gun. Can we get 20 likes?

Rick Sanchez

about 5 years ago
  • Electrical engineer
  • United States

Tutorial - DIY BLUETOOTH PORTABLE SPEAKER

Around 2 years back I've made a huge portable Bluetooth speaker but that had some errors with the circuit. Then, I've made a small portable bluetooth speaker that had a good circuit. Now, I'me making a new version for the big speaker but with all the errors corrected. It will have a 6S battery pa... view more