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Cree LR22

Cree LR22 troffer

Cree’s LR22 troffer is a fully luminous, diffused fixture aimed at offices, healthcare facilities and schools in Europe (220-240V). It is 595 x 595mm, comes in 3,000 and 4,000K white, and eficacy is up to 95 lm/W. Control is DALI or 1-10V with two-way communication. It has a 10 year warranty.

ARM or x86 for industrial computers?

Nvidia Tegra by GE

Low power consumption means ARM processors are making headway into the single-board industrial computer market, even as Intel, AMD and Via make lower power x86 chips. Cost, performance, and virtualisation are other parameters affecting adoption. GE Intelligent Platforms (formerly Radstone) makes both Intel and ARM-based single board computers (SBCs), and is selling them into vision-based object identification and tracking, where ...

The Altruistic Gambler

When WWII broke out, Tom Watson Senior offered IBM’s factories to the US government to make armaments.

Digital connectors exploit XLR mounting holes

Cliff Electronics feed through connector

Allowing audio, data, and fibre signals to pass through 24mm XLR connector mounting holes, Cliff Electronics has created a range of feed-through connectors that accept standard cabling both front and rear, eliminating the need to solder or crimp at either side. “Using the same, industry standard, XLR connector cut-out already extensively used for audio and control connections greatly simplifies panel ...

Happy Birthday Raspberry Pi!

Raspberry-Pi-2

It was at the very end of February 2012 that the Raspberry Pi officially went on sale for the first time. So we’re coming up to the time to say “Happy Third Birthday”.

Stamps

The cost of a stamp has gone up to 63p today.

RS Components gets a new boss

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RS Components has a new boss with the appointment of Lindsley Ruth as group chief executive of Electrocomponents, which owns the catalogue and online distributor. Ruth, who takes over at RS in April, is currently executive vice president of the Future Electronics, who he has worked for since 2002. He previously held senior positions with TTI and Solectron. The appointment follows ...

Raspberry Pi gets VNC remote access birthday present

You can now connect your Raspberry Pi from any Windows, Mac or Linux computer using free downloadable software from RealVNC. The software known as VNC can be used with Raspberry Pi in two ways. If the Raspberry Pi is connected to a monitor or TV and is running a graphical desktop, the software allows the user to run remote access or ...

ARM looks to the Cloud

ARM has developed an approach for an Intelligent Flexible Cloud (IFC) environment to meet the latency, power and size constraints for next-generation networks.