Paul Henley

Jul 19, 2024 | insidehighered.com | Paul Henley |Darby Roberts

July 19, 2024Paul T. Henley explores some of the terms and phrases that are too often co-opted, misused or mangled in academic language. You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. akindo/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images We think of higher education as protection for our country’s sacred traditions—guardians, really. That includes proper use of language to communicate ideas, especially in formal documents and presentations.

Jan 9, 2024 | makezine.com | Paul Henley |Craig Couden

The ProS3 u.FL is an updated development board from Unexpected Maker featuring Espressif’s latest ESP32-S3 microcontroller. The main feature of this chip is the 2.4 GHz 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 support. We opted for the version of the board having a u.FL connector instead of an on-board chip antenna. This allows the maker to attach whatever antenna is most appropriate for the project, and mount it away from the microcontroller board.

Dec 15, 2023 | makezine.com | Paul Henley |Craig Couden

Adafruit has been building a number of Feathers around the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s RP2040 microcontroller, each with a different set of peripherals squeezed into the Feather’s small form factor. This iteration of the Feather is aimed at making portable “props” with interactive lights and sound. Really any interactive device with lights and sound can benefit from this compact and capable development board.

Sep 7, 2023 | makezine.com | Paul Henley |Craig Couden

The Adafruit Feather RP2040 with RFM95 LoRa Radio – 915MHz – RadioFruit and STEMMA QT (Feather LoRa from here on out) is a microcontroller paired with a LoRa 900MHz band radio for data communication. LoRa, short for long range, is a data radio standard for low-data rate, long-distance communication. Its range will depend on the antenna you choose to connect to it, but a simple single-wire antenna should be able to cover more than a mile with the 100mW power output of the transmitter.

Jun 23, 2023 | makezine.com | Paul Henley |Craig Couden

The Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI is a microcontroller board capable of DVI digital video output on an HDMI port. That it is possible for a general-purpose microcontroller to generate a DVI signal is impressive, but it requires running the RP2040 beyond its limits. When the Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced its RP2040 microcontroller, one standout feature was the Programmable IO (PIO) peripheral.