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‘Smart’ light bulbs might end up hosting 2.4GHz mesh networking relay stations, wasting who-knows-how-much power 24/7. See this Engineer in Wonderland blog
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I just learned ceiling light bulbs are now a major target for household and commercial wireless mesh networks. From one point of view, it is a great idea as the mains-powered bulbs are likely to have line-of-sight to all the battery-powered or harvesting-powered IoT nodes around them, and be able to pass the data to …
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UK defence specialist Ultra Electronics has announced a planned acquisition of US-based Sparton Corp in a deal worth $235m (£180m).
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UK Power Networks has published a free guide on the basics of installing electric vehicle charging points at your house or company – from kW to MW installations. It is called ‘Getting electric vehicles moving, all you need to know about getting an electricity connection for your fleet‘. The guide is a top-level skim over …
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Designed to support the supervisory circuits of microprocessors, the APX803L micro-power voltage detector from Diodes offers a detection between 1.2 and 5.0V in 0.1V steps, while consuming 1μA (typ, 2.5μA max). Threshold accuracy is ±1.5%, and no external components are required. Whenever the monitored power supply rail drops below the chosen threshold, the APX803L asserts …
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There were once a couple of ex-TI-ers who decided to challenge Intel by making x86 processors. They made parts which performed better than the Intel equivalents. When Intel sued them for patent infringement the courts ruled that they had never infringed any Intel patent and could make their x86 processors in any fab which had …
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Pi-topPulse is a HAT-compliant sound and light educational accessory for Raspberry Pi 3 as well as something for the accessory rail within a pi-top – the Raspberry Pi-based DIY laptop, or for the all-in-one desktop pi‑topCeed. Small, measuring 60x67mm, it includes a 7 x 7 matrix of RGB LEDs, a loudspeaker and a microphone. “It …
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Imagination has launched a revamped and extended version of its MIPSfpga course for universities that gives budding CPU designers hands-on experience of the inner workings of processors.
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Google joins too, as a long awaited “mesh” topology could soon buoy IoT lighting.
Amazon EC2 Systems Manager now supports cross-platform documents, and now you can use multiple steps of the same type in the same document.