Welcome Project Bloks, from Google. Helping kids to get to grips with technology, via modular building blocks, is a crowded space, but that hasn’t stopped Google entering the educational arena.

Google Project Bloks for Kids picks Raspberry Pi Zero

Intelligent LED Solutions announce industrial grade flexible LED strips for machine lighting. Branded PowerFlex the range includes constant current drivers, protection diodes and 3M thermal tape. Led-to-led spacings from 7.5 to 25mm are available. Up to 3,500 lm/m and 50,000 hours working life is achievable. “We now have customers using the PowerFlex for machine tool lighting and it is proving …

Industrial-grade lighting strips

Allegro MicroSystems’ surface-mount magnetic speed sensor contains a compensating circuit that reduces the detrimental effects of magnet and system offsets. “Digital processing of the analogue signal provides zero-speed performance independent of air gap as well as dynamic adaptation of device performance to the typical operating conditions found in automotive applications, including reduced vibration sensitivity,” said the …

Magnetic speed sensor rejects offsets

LoRa, which is bidding to be an IoT wide-area wireless network technology, is being adopted across Europe, but not yet in the UK. Gothenburg in Sweden is the latest city to see a deployment of LoRa wireless network technology as part of a smart city project. This follows announcements of LoRA deployments in France and …

Europe goes for IoT network technology without UK

Penn Elcom supplies 250m of Osram LED tape to retrofit the Radcliffe Camera building that serves as a reading room on the Oxford University campus in England.

It’s time for legislators to consider aspects of LED lighting other than energy efficiency, the industry association says in a position paper that reaffirms its push towards human-centric lighting.

AWS is pleased to announce immediate availability of the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Mumbai joins Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo as the sixth AWS Region in Asia and as the thirteenth worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 35 worldwide. 

Join Tom Freyberg from WWi magazine for the Desalinate newscast, bringing together the latest news from the global desalination industry…

Join Tom Freyberg from WWi magazine for the Desalinate newscast, bringing together the latest news from the global desalination industry…

Take a look at this report from US website Make, describing how to make a wireless drone-disbler using a Raspberry Pi.

DIY Raspberry Pi defence against your neighbour’s drone