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This is accidentally becoming an epic – exploring the combination of Cree’s high intensity XP-P led and Gaggione’s rectangular beam LLC15E optic. One of the problems of using a new led-optic combination where no specific data is available, is working out the correct distance between the led mounting face and the lens mounting face. Having …
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By Steve Bush
Ledvance is advising lighting wholesalers about compliance with the Single Lighting Regulation (SLR) and Energy Labelling Regulation (ELR). It also points out that the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL) now centralises relevant information for all light sources on the market, for the first time. The new regulations redefine products into ‘light sources’ and ‘containing …
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A LEO III computer has been ordered for installation at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, next year, by the Dunlop Rubber Co. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 12th 1961 The story continued: The estimated cost of the installation will be about £250,000. The computer will produce invoices and accounts …
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Harvard and MIT researchers have teamed up to prototype a self-contained saliva-based diagnostic Covid test that can distinguish between variants in an hour and is “just as accurate as the PCR tests now used”, according to MIT. It is called ‘miSherlock’, for ‘minimally-instrumented Sherlock’, where Sherlock is a Crispr-based DNA/RNA test invented at Harvard’s Wyss Institute …
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microLED could be approaching escape velocity, says Yole Developpement. Cost is the number one challenge. A 20x to 50x reduction is required to address consumer applications with the exceptions of AR and wearables. Positives are increased funding, resources, prospects, and the availability of commercial tools which are speeding up development. Samsung and Vuzix (with JB …
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LeoLabs and New Zealand’s Space Agency, have signed a multi-year agreement to develop a “Space Regulatory and Sustainability Platform”, the country’s government has announced. The Californian-based company is a provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services. The space monitoring, cloud-based system will enable New Zealand to better meet the …
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Although the four main UK mobile networks said they wouldn’t re-introduce roaming charges in Europe after Brexit, two of the four now have. Vodafone is the latest network to say it will impose roaming charges as from next year. In June, BT-owned EE was the first to go back on its word and announce the …
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THine Solutions has introduced its second THEIA-CAM family kit, the THSCM101, a 13MP (megapixel) Phase-Detection Auto-Focus (PDAF) Linux Camera Reference Design Kit. The THSCM101 Kit interfaces to NXP’s i.MX 8M family EVKs and is based on THine’s THP7312-P image signal processor (ISP) and Sony’s IMX258 13MP CMOS PDAF image sensor. The Kit includes a Camera …
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Infineon is aiming at augmented reality glasses and automotive head-up displays with a MEMs-based optical scanner. The company is giving very little away beyond this, except to say that the “MEMS scanner chipset features a tilting mirror which lays the foundation for a new generation of laser beam scanner projectors”, and that the chipset is …
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Sensirion has introduced three flow sensors for ventilators. All based on its SFM3xxx platform, they are intended for inspiratory applications at ambient pressure. SFM3119 (pictured) is a digital flow meter, the successor to its SFM3100. Flows of air, oxygen and air-oxygen mixtures between -10 and 240 slm are measured, and output in 16bit format updated at …
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