Get ready to celebrate Arduino Week! It runs, worldwide, from 21-26 March, and is a celebration of all things Arduino.

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Electric car sales more than doubled over the past twelve months, reaching 6.6 million, compared to 3 million in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) as reported by EV-volumes.com. All net growth in global car sales in 2021 can be attributed to electric vehicles. China in particular had a breakout year in 2021, …

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As an enthusiastic soul, I tend to think thigs are more do-able than they actually are. As such, I need frequent reality checks. And one just arrived on fusion-based power generation in the form of the YouTube video Former fusion scientist on why we won’t have fusion power by 2040. At least, I hope it is …

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Whatever happened to the telly? Before it underwent its digital transformation it came on when it was turned on, didn’t go wrong much and had only  a few knobs – a friendly piece of kit to have in the corner of your sitting room. Its digital successor is a Frankensteinian monster – complex to a …

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At ISSCC 2022, the Leibniz University of Hannover presented a novel 50-60Hz universal mains ac-dc power supply that has almost all of its components on a single 3 x 7mm 0.18μm silicon-on-insulator die. The only external components are the output inductor and capacitor, both low-voltage parts. It can produce an adjustable 3.3 to 10Vdc from …

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Digi-Key Electronics, in collaboration with Siemens, will host an online webinar about power reliability for automation and control systems. It takes place on Tuesday, 8 March, at 11 a.m. (CST) and will be presented by Greg Kateb, SITOP power product consultant for Siemens. Spcifically, Kateb will address a variety of scenarios that a power system …

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Audi has adapted its models with V6 engines to run on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). Renewable fuels, or reFuels,  are a short-term means of defossilisatio until EVs take over. Audi models with V6 diesel engines up to and including 210 kW (286 PS) that were made from mid-February onwards  can be filled up with the …

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Viavi has announced  extensions to its end-to-end test and assurance solutions for O-RAN. These are: ·       RIC Test. TeraVM RIC Testvalidates the performance of the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) when presented with a wide range of RAN scenarios, tests the functionality of rApps and xApps, and provides the means to generate the data needed to train …

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MPU sales are expected to rise 7% this year with cellphone processors increasing 10% following a 31% jump in 2021, says IC Insights, with modest growth expected in computer CPUs and embedded MPUs. Total microprocessor sales in 2021 maintained strength, growing 14% to a record-high $102.9 billion after climbing 16% in 2020, when pandemic lockdowns …

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Today, AWS Transfer Family is pleased to announce enhancements to the managed workflows capability, which can save you even more time in automating file processing steps such as moving and renaming files, retaining source files for archival, dynamically routing files to user-specific folders, and deploying and monitoring workflows using AWS CloudFormation and AWS CloudWatch metrics.