Protests have erupted in Tobruk, Libya, following the closure of its desalination plant due to a lack of chemicals, reports SciDev.Net.

Atico announces temporary closure; will work to confirm safety of the system before permitting work.

Police in New Jersey say a fetus was discovered at a water pumping station.

A European Radio Equipment Directive is set to become UK law following what some industry insiders believe has been a “frustrating implementation period”.

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SIA CEO John Neuffer responds to the decision to set in motion a process led by the United States Trade Representative to investigate China’s unfair trade practices.

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Minmax is aiming at household appliances with 3W (AAF-03) and 5W (AAF-05) encapsulated power modules safety approved for EN60950-1 (ITE) and EN60335-1 (household appliance). Size is ~ 26 x 26 x 16mm for the PCB-mount version, and there is chassis-mount option with terminal strips available on 5W models. “Their small size offers designers the opportunity …

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I have been pleasantly surprised how quickly Arduino’s language and IDE can be understood enough to do something useful – occasional hours found over a couple of weeks. And how generous people have been in posting code after they have worked out how to do things – sleep, brown-out, ATtiny programming and long-short button push in …

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There is an example of a programme that differentiates between long and short push-button pushes on the Arduino.cc website, but I was not taken it. However their was an example I did like the look of, by xn1ch1 on Instructables, and I used this as the basis for my code. Caveat: This code uses the ‘long’ …

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Distributor Mouser is giving a boost to its robotics product line with a new agreement with robotics components manufacturer Robotis.

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Novacap and Syfer Technology have jointly announced a range of high-temperature multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) for projects in oil exploration, geothermal, military, under-hood automotive and avionics. The ‘HiT’ range has an operating range of -55 to +200ºC, and offers tin-over-nickel terminations that had not been previously available in the companies’ other high-temperature MLCCs. Both C0G …

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