Chris Shaw is Lead Engineer at the company Beasts of Balance, makers of the Sensible Objects technology game.
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Webinar: Reduce Test Time by implementing Embedded JTAG Solutions
Electronics Weekly is joining with Goepel Electronics to discuss increasing productivity and reducing test time by implementing Embdedded JTAG solutions.
Led driver triac dims across 1-100%
Recom is claiming 1% to 100% leading-edge or trailing-edge triac dimming from four led drivers, rated at 9, 12, 18 or 25W. Both leading and trailing edge phase angle control makes them suitable for many standard dimmers for a wide range of applications,” said the firm. Called the ‘RACT series’ (RACT20 for 20W, for example), their constant current outputs are between ...
Alpha Wire thin light wires vie with PTFE for high-rel connections
Alpha Wire’s new ThermoThin Hook-Up Wire, delivers 600V performance from -150 to +300°C, and is intended for applications where premium performance must be matched with space and weight savings.
Hats off to a particular professional cyclist
I was standing by the roadside, watching the Surrey Classic professional cycle race on Sunday. And the cycling was most impressive. But none of the riders cracked a smile, despite a little crowd that was cheering its heart out. Then, a long way behind the main pack, there was tired group of four riders – two or three with fixed ...
Your chance to win an STM32L4 Discovery Kit IoT Node
Check out the latest competition on Electronics Weekly, giving you a chance to get your hands on a STM32L4 Discovery Kit IoT Node.
Arduino Shenanigans
Arduino has had a great commercial success but a lousy corporate history. Now the CEO has been ousted after it was found that his degrees are phony. Five guys founded Arduino LLC in 2008 but, in 2010, when they applied for a worldwide trademark on the name, they found that one of the founding five, Gianluca Martino, had registered the ...
Fable: The Costly Micro
40 years ago this year, the first 16-bit microprocessor to be designed and made in Europe was launched on the market. Here is the die shot: It had a 60mm² die size and was made on a 3.5 micron bipolar process. It had 64KB of physical memory and ran at 8HMz. It didn’t ...
Small PC also supports Arduino
LattePanda is an Intel Atom PC running and Arduino (Leonardo clone) combined.
SD-WANs growing rapidly
Software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) infrastructure and services revenues will see a CAGR of 69.6% and reach $8.05 billion in 2021, according to IDC,.