As processor speeds increase and draw more power, thermal management becomes an increasingly important issue within all devices where microcontrollers are used. As thermal management becomes more ...

As many contractors attest, a supply air plenum is a sheet metal box attached to a furnace or air handler’s outlet and is used as a central manifold connector for other ductwork. As the air blows from ...

Welcome to the first entry in the ‘Rarely Asked Questions” blog series. Measuring temperature with a single GPIO is the matter at hand that kicks it off. As the need for sensing capabilities becomes ...

Air temperature is officially measured in the shade at a height of 2 meters, or about 6 feet, above ground. A standard thermometer cannot measure the temperature in the sun because the thermometer ...

As Jeff Masters mentioned in his recent blog, a temperature of 54.0°C (129.2°F) was observed at Mitribah, Kuwait on July 21st. According to the Kuwait Meteorological Department this was the hottest ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- This week, scientists in Sweden celebrated one of their own. Anders Celsius would have turned 318 years old on Monday. So, we thought we'd take this chance to answer a Good ...

One of the interesting facets of global warming has been how, over the past several decades, nighttime minimum temperatures have become warmer relative to daytime maximum temperatures. There are ...

It seems simple enough to hold a thermometer out in the sun in order to get the temperature “in the sun.” But this idea is all wrong. Air isn’t heated up very much by sunlight. The rays pass right ...

Checking the Houston forecast this month has likely brought on a twinge of pain at the sight of constant triple digits — but (sorry Houston) in reality, the high temperatures are actually worse than ...

An international team of researchers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b. The measurement is based on the planet's thermal ...