An innovative 3d printer design has been open-sourced by its designer, known as Kralyn. Krayln has spent a year designing Positron, which has already caused a stir by being a filament printer that deposits polymer underneath the print bed, so the object hangs down as it prints – which brings all the moving mass down to …

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I seem to be sampling a robotics seam recently – see the Arduino Braccio ++ robotic arm kit, the Roomba-based iRobot and the Pimoroni Trilobot, for example – and now here scampers Petoi Bittle, the world’s first palm sized robot dog.

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Strong economic recovery following the end of the lockdowns with pent-up consumer spending being released and the effect of the war squeezing supplies have helped to push already-rising inflation higher. In April, the Consumer Price Index by the OECD rose by 8.3% y-o-y in the US, 7.4% in Germany, 6.2% in the UK and 4.5% …

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The famed CEO of GE, Jack Welch, wrote this in the company’s 2000 Annual Report: “We cultivate the hatred of bureaucracy in our Company and never for a moment hesitate to use that awful word ‘hate’. Bureaucrats must be ridiculed and removed. They multiply in organizational layers and behind functional walls – which means that …

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Toshiba has teamed up with MikroElektronika to create motor drive modules in one of Mikroe’s  interchangeable standard PCB formats – Clicker 4 in this case. “Mikroe Clicker 4 development board for Toshiba’s M4K MCU, combined with the Clicker 4 Inverter Shield is a solution for experimenting with brushless dc motor control,” according to Toshiba. Clicker …

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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted an €8 million loan to Sensible 4 of Finland which has developed Level 4 automated driving software enabling any vehicle to operate under challenging weather conditions, including snow, heavy rain, fog and sandstorms. The loan is part of the European Guarantee Fund’s venture debt product to provide liquidity …

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CommAgility has introduced a four-channel 5G small cell gNodeB platform for industrial private networks, cloud applications and video streaming. SC-RF4-5Gn78 is a standalone small cell for indoor use complete with baseband and RF hardware based on NXP’s Layerscape and Layerscape Access SoCs that combine 16 Arm Cortex-A72 cores with NXP’s VSPA DSP cores, security and wireless …

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Euroconsult, a Paris-based consultancy specialising in the space sector, has released its 2022 space logistics satellite market report, outlining the on-orbit services required to sustain a space ecosystem. It says such services, ranging from launches to satellites’ end of life, are expected to generate $4.4 billion in revenue by 2031, with the involvement of more …

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Infineon has added to its LITIX LED controller portfolio with the dual-channel, stand-alone DC-DC controller TLD6098-2ES. The controller is the first product that can drive a full LED headlamp by itself without an additional microcontroller. It can also operate the four standard LED front light functions: High Beam (HB), Low Beam (LB), Daytime Running Lights …

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National Instruments has announced a fleet of vehicles for Europe, the US and China that will record data for autonomous driving research. The intention is to provide data for training, testing and validating perception algorithms and hardware. “ADAS data recording is one of the most complex challenges, as data from multiple sensor modalities – camera, …

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