{"id":679,"date":"2025-05-19T21:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/?page_id=679"},"modified":"2025-05-26T22:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T22:43:45","slug":"ref-1-battery-less-proof-of-concept","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/sample-page\/ref-1-battery-less-proof-of-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"REF-1 Battery-less Proof of Concept (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"953\" height=\"1270\" src=\"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/solar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/solar.jpg 953w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/solar-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/solar-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/solar-650x866.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I designed a battery-less proof of concept of my AML100-REF-1 demo board. Instead of a CR123A battery, the board utilized a super capacitor for energy storage and an ambient-light photovoltaic cell for energy harvesting. This was a demo device used for demonstrating the AML100&#8217;s always-on ultra low power sensing. In addition to the AML100, the board also features a microphone, power measurement circuitry and a bluetooth SoC (STM32WB) for remote alerting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background I designed a battery-less proof of concept of my AML100-REF-1 demo board. Instead of a CR123A battery, the board utilized a super capacitor for energy storage and an ambient-light photovoltaic cell for energy harvesting. This was a demo device used for demonstrating the AML100&#8217;s always-on ultra low power sensing. In addition to the AML100, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-679","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679\/revisions\/1132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}