Month: December 2018

David Johnson-Davies published another tiny project. This is an ATtiny85-based digital music box that will play a tune stored in memory in MIDI format: The notes sound like a music box or harpsichord, with a decaying envelope, and there are four channels, so up to four notes can play...

New co-authored paper demonstrates potential ten-fold energy density increase over existing lithium-ion battery technologies. Scientists from Honda Research Institute have collaborated with researchers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

One thing about microcontrollers that will always be respected, is their ability to consistently provide real-time processing, low power, low cost, and most importantly a lot of I/Os. They excel quite well in those aspects, and in some cases they are indisputable, but when we deal with...

The new R&S®RTC1000 series oscilloscope Rohde & Schwarz is again expanding its oscilloscope portfolio with the launch of the R&S®RTC1000, R&S®RTM3000 and R&S®RTA4000 series oscilloscopes. With this market introduction Rohde & Schwarz has now the most...

Machine-to-machine communication in the Internet of Things (IoT) requires reliable data collection and uninterrupted data transmission. For taking full advantage of the ubiquitous mobile networks, Infineon Technologies AG provides the world’s first industrial-grade embedded SIM (eSIM)...

The Beijing based ASIC bitcoin mining rigs giant Bitmain which has been exploring the AI business for some time now has launched a new developer board geared towards bringing powerful deep learning capability to various type of applications through its agile prototype development known as...

emPower-USB-Host: Two USB ports make it easy and cost efficient to build a variety of USB based gadgets * All software free for non-commercial use. SEGGER introduces emPower-USB-Host, a compact low-cost development board. With two USB host ports, many applications using USB peripherals...

OPTIGA™ Trust X is a security solution optimized for IoT devices to enable fast, secure, and easy connectivity to cloud services like AWS. It acts as the trust anchor for secured TLS connections and it protect the customers’ data and IP. It is extremely easy to integrate and...