Plessey will manufacture and sell the PhytoLux horticultural lighting product line to deliver LED plant growth lighting solutions for the global market. “Steve and the team at PhytoLux have built an impressive record of innovation and proof of concept with the researchers and industrial growers in the UK,” says Plessey CEO Michael Le Goff, “the …
Asustek Cuts Back On Intel Mobile SoC Orders
Asustek, Intel’s largest client for smartphone platforms, is reported by Digitimes to have cut back orders for Intel’s mobile ICs because of a delay on the supply of Intel’s 4G SoFIA LTE chip. The scale of the decrease in ordering Intel chips is reported to be from six million SoCs in 2015 to below five …
Drones and Raspberry Pi flying high at Erle
Drone autopilot system developer, Erle Robotics has teamed up with Catuav to offer control systems for fixed-wing autonomous crafts. Erle Robotics has already developed an open autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi which turns the tiny low cost computer module into a drone control system. Fixed-wing autonomous crafts are typically used for Earth survey missions …
Toshiba sampling dual picture automotive video processor
Toshiba is sampling a dual picture video processor for high resolution automotive displays. The TC90195XBG provides support for navigation, entertainment and driver support systems that are increasingly found in cars. Volume production is scheduled for June. With increased demand for larger panels with higher resolutions, the chip supports 1920×720 at (60 frames per second (fps) …
Singin’ In The Rain
An umbrella with a one transistor radio built inside the shaft has been developed by the Maruko Industrial Company of Nihonbashi Chuo-ku, Tokyo. So, 55 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 22nd 1961 The story continues: The radio operates on a three volt dry battery and uses the umbrella shaft …
Maxim opens low-current buck converter for always-on rails
Designers of USB Type-C small form factor devices can now create always-on rails with the ultra-low quiescent current MAX77596 buck converter from Maxim. Next-generation products that use the high data rates and increased power transfer capability of USB Type-C ports will require low-voltage supply rails to power necessary Type-C port controllers. Devices using the Power Delivery (PD) …
Build your own Siri for Arduino
Arduino now has a standalone voice recognition and synthesiser which does not require an internet connection or cloud-based processing. It is a hardware shield which is claimed to ‘Siri- like’ recognise full sentences and has a 2GB internal dictionary. It can be programmed to recognise almost any complete English sentence and build a dialogue system to …
Cisco, Philips add a showcase Power over Ethernet (PoE) lighting installation in the UAE
The headquarters of Cisco integrator Smartworld is the latest “Digital Ceiling” proof-of-concept site that incorporates PoE technology.
DOE rulemaking could dash California Title 20 sting (UPDATED)
The US Department of Energy is pursuing regulations for general service lamps that are stronger in many ways than California Title 20, but don’t mandate the boost in color rendering performance that has drawn the ire of many in the SSL sector.
AWS IoT Now Supports Integration with Amazon Machine Learning and AWS CloudTrail
You can now configure AWS IoT Rules to route device-generated data directly to Amazon Machine Learning, enabling you to create machine learning (ML) models without having to learn complex ML algorithms and technology. With Amazon Machine Learning integration, you will be able to generate billions of predictions daily, and serve those predictions in real-time and at high throughput.