Contract is for the repair of a water distribution system at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in New Orleans.
Sensor system dev board has Arduino form factor
Farnell element14 is offering the Analog Devices EVAL-ADICUP360 evaluation board with an Arduino form factor, which comes with open source development tools, software examples, and hardware modules. It is intended as prototyping hardware which can also be used with third party shields. The board has a 3.9ksample/s, 24-bit data acquisition system that incorporates dual high …
Plessey deal will use LED lights for growing plants
Plessey believes it is time to grow plants under artificial LED lighting. The UK-based LED lighting technology company has signed a license agreement to manufacture and sell horticultural lighting systems developed by PhytoLux. Plessey has also taken on the operational, technical and commercial activities of PhytoLux and said it wants to provide LED plant growth …
Google and IBM servers to reduce data centre power
Google and IBM are leading a group of 200 companies have started a number of projects to address the challenges of processing and storing big data in the world’s data centres. Under the banner of the OpenPOWER Foundation, Google is developing a new server as part of the Open Compute Project. The OpenPOWER Foundation supports …
Plessey LEDs help plants grow
Plessey will manufacture and sell the PhytoLux horticultural lighting product line to deliver LED plant growth lighting solutions for the global market. “Steve and the team at PhytoLux have built an impressive record of innovation and proof of concept with the researchers and industrial growers in the UK,” says Plessey CEO Michael Le Goff, “the …
Singin’ In The Rain
An umbrella with a one transistor radio built inside the shaft has been developed by the Maruko Industrial Company of Nihonbashi Chuo-ku, Tokyo. So, 55 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 22nd 1961 The story continues: The radio operates on a three volt dry battery and uses the umbrella shaft …
Maxim opens low-current buck converter for always-on rails
Designers of USB Type-C small form factor devices can now create always-on rails with the ultra-low quiescent current MAX77596 buck converter from Maxim. Next-generation products that use the high data rates and increased power transfer capability of USB Type-C ports will require low-voltage supply rails to power necessary Type-C port controllers. Devices using the Power Delivery (PD) …
Build your own Siri for Arduino
Arduino now has a standalone voice recognition and synthesiser which does not require an internet connection or cloud-based processing. It is a hardware shield which is claimed to ‘Siri- like’ recognise full sentences and has a 2GB internal dictionary. It can be programmed to recognise almost any complete English sentence and build a dialogue system to …
Asustek Cuts Back On Intel Mobile SoC Orders
Asustek, Intel’s largest client for smartphone platforms, is reported by Digitimes to have cut back orders for Intel’s mobile ICs because of a delay on the supply of Intel’s 4G SoFIA LTE chip. The scale of the decrease in ordering Intel chips is reported to be from six million SoCs in 2015 to below five …
Drones and Raspberry Pi flying high at Erle
Drone autopilot system developer, Erle Robotics has teamed up with Catuav to offer control systems for fixed-wing autonomous crafts. Erle Robotics has already developed an open autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi which turns the tiny low cost computer module into a drone control system. Fixed-wing autonomous crafts are typically used for Earth survey missions …