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Putting the boot into Industry 4.0 education
2018-12-12Engineering students (from left) Sarah Brady, Anthony Newell and Axieh Bagasol. Photograph Nick Bradshaw The football factory demo was popular at exhibitions around Europe, where it was used to showca...
Industrial grade cellular comms SIM is 2.5 x 2.7mm for IoT and M2M
2018-12-11It is aimed at machine-to-machine comms and IoT applications, for example vending machines, remote ...
Tiny solar cells integrated into cloth at Nottingham Trent
2018-12-11“Clothing would look and behave like any other textile, but within the fibres would be a network of...
A view from the RISC-V Summit
2018-12-07There were two announcements from IAR Systems in support of establishing a robust ecosystem for RISC-V. The first was with IP provider, SiFive, to collaborate on bringing the former’s compiler and de...
Google’s Flutter mobile toolkit targets both iOS and Android
2018-12-06By creating native ARM code, Google is claiming that Flutter enables the flexibility of cross-platform developing without compromising on performance. You can build to .apk files for Android or .ipa f...
Sponsored Content: Advantech – the IoT enabler of choice
2018-12-05The company was the first to talk about co-creation as ‘the’ most innovative way to approach the IoT market. With its strong base in hardware platforms, Advantech has been actively promoting the co-...
Imagination re-works GPUs for latest Series9 offerings
2018-12-04“These new GPUs are the best-ever mainstream PowerVR GPU cores and will enable us to continue to in...
Tough Hall sensors aim to replace reed and micro switches
2018-12-04Called APS11700 and APS11760, the three pin (power, ground, output) devices have a simple (but protected) open-drain output and can consume as little as 6µA average from an unregulated 3.3-24V supply...
Phone app and cloud-based AI could identify heart disease from the home
2018-11-30One in five people worldwide, according to Nanyang, run the risk of developing congestive heart fail...
Sony dev kit combines MCUs, GPS and audio
2018-11-30The CXD5602 SoC on the 50 x 20.6mm main board contains six 156MHz ARM Cortex-M4F cores, and its periperals include an 8bit parallel camera interface, a multi-constellation GNSS receiver, and a sensor-...
USB 3.0 isolator passes 5Gbit/s while breaking electrical continuity for instrumentation
2018-11-30“Re-clocking design guarantees a stable USB connection at all speeds,” claimed Saelig. Detection o...
Comment: Formula Student plots route for women in engineering
2018-11-30I discovered engineering in a university prospectus when I was 17. Throughout my childhood I’d always wanted to be an ‘inventor’, but it wasn’t until much later that I found out this dream could a...