If you are looking to buy your next Raspberry Pi Zero or Zero W and you don’t know which websites have modules in stock? Well an enterprising guy in Italy has created a website showing which online stores have Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero W’s in stock. It is called The PIlocator. As yet there is …

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UK human propulsion start-up, Gravity, has built and flown a jet engine flying suit. Founded by Richard Browning, the firm’s Daedalus suit has six jet engines, four hand held and two in a backpack. RS Components has provided tools, components and expertise to support the development. RS has a page on the suit here. Just …

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Electric Imp, the developer of hardware and software platforms for secure IoT designs, is offering quick-start reference designs for what it believes are the most frequently demanded connectivity and device prototypes. According to Hugo Fiennes, CEO and co-founder of Electric Imp: “We have seen customers cut nine to 12 weeks from prototype and trial schedules, and …

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Thermally conductive 5.5W/m.K low thermal resistance. Ideal for screen/stencil printing

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You may be aware of UK-based Bare Conductive already, and their ‘electric’ paint, but they’ve just released a new Touch Board Starter Kit.

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Today the vertical vs horizontal debate about the right approach to the technology industry has been decided in favour of horizontal, but ten years ago it was still very much a current issue. In 2007, NXP, the re-named Philips Semiconductors which had recently been spun out of Philips, was run by Hans van Houten, now CEO …

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Liquid-crystal lens technology enables SSL product to adapt the beam spread dynamically under the control of smartphones or other devices.

Today, we made available the new Resource Groups Tagging API, which makes it easier for you to use tags to centrally organize, discover, allocate costs, and control access to AWS resources. The API’s five operations enable you to programmatically tag and untag resources, list resources with a specific tag, and list unique tag keys across multiple AWS services. With this new API, you can now programmatically use AWS resource group and Tag Editor functionality. This makes it easier for you to implement automated tools to manage, search, and filter tags and resources across AWS services.

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Amazon Cloud Directory in the EU (London) Region. This allows your end users and applications to benefit from infrastructure located closer to them in London. Cloud Directory is now available in 7 regions worldwide. 

We are pleased to announce that starting today you can configure the read and keep-alive idle timeout values used by Amazon CloudFront when communicating with custom origins. You can increase or lower either of these values based on the needs of your applications.