The BeagleBone Black Wireless, the credit-card-sized Linux computer that integrates Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces and I/O for IoT sensors, is available from RS Components. It is a development system which can be used with open-source software platforms such as Debian, Android and Ubuntu. The hardware has both 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but no Ethernet-10/100 connectivity. …

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The UK government has made a major commitment to the introduction of autonomous vehicles which it says will be on London’s roads in 2019, launching a new type of personal mobility service. The government has awarded funding of £12.8m to a group which includes the University of Oxford, the Transport Research Laboratory and also Transport …

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UK engineers want the government to take more “decisive action” to address the shortage of engineering skills in the workforce.

Read full article: Biggest ever engineering report calls for action on skills in schools

Solar panels could gain from a chemical which produces two electron-hole pairs from each incoming photon. Called heptacene, it has a characteristic called ‘singlet fission‘ which allows this doubling of electron production. BTW, there is no magic here, the pairs have at most half the energy than the best single pair that could be extracted …

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Amber Wireless creates an 11 x 8 x 1.8 mm Bluetooth Smart 4.2 module, offered with or without integrated antenna.

Read full article: Module adds Bluetooth Smart to legacy designs with minimal fuss

Sony creates the colossal controller as part of the promotion for a remastered 20th anniversary re-issue of the title Parappa the Rapper.

Read full article: Picture of the Day: Colossal controller for Sony PS4

Xu Lizhi, who, at the age of 24, jumped to his death from a window of a Hon Hai factory where he was employed, wrote this poem. I swallowed an iron moon they called it a screw I swallowed industrial wastewater and unemployment forms bent over machines, our youth died young I swallowed labor, I swallowed …

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Amplicon has introduced the Impact-D 160 embedded PC based on a Skylake processor. Designed and built in the UK, the embedded PC will offer two processor options: i5 and i3. The unit offers both mSATA and a mechanical/solid-state drive capability for storage and OS requirements. Support of both cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity allows to “stay …

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THE only way to solve London’s traffic problem is by the use of an electronic computer”, says Mr. T. Cauter, Managing Director of CEIR (UK) Ltd.   So, 57 years ago, opened a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 7th 1960   The story continues:   “It won’t be cheap, and may cost some tens …

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ARM introduces image processing intellectual property for automotive vision systems.

Read full article: ARM reveals automotive image processing