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Cree has upped the power of its 5x5mm leds as it introduces the XHP50.2 range with up to 7% more lumens and 10% higher efficacy (see table below) compared with first generation XHP50. 2,500 lm is available from the 6mm (equiv dia) light emitting surface. “XHP50.2 LED has LM-80 data available immediately, reducing the time …
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Intel has bought a 15% stake and the right to a supervisory board seat in HERE the mapping company which makes 3D digital maps of roads to centimetre-scale precision. Many technologists believe that this precision will be required to enable self-driving cars. Intel has agreements with BMW, Mobileye and Delphi to develop driverless technology and …
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Two-bit Gray-coded rotary switches (aka quarature encoders) are quite rightly widely available for setting values and controlling things. And I have seen small pcb-mount hexadecimal switches for pre-setting values. But are there proper chunky hexadecimal rotary switches for control purposes – for frequent changes rather than once-in-a-blue-moon adjustments? It transpires that they do exist, and …
Read full article: Hexadecimal control switches exist, and they are made in the UK
The Queen’s New Year Honours list for 2017 has been announced, and bio-technology is a dominant theme among technology-related achievements (genetic profiling, bioinformatics, DNA sequencing). Leading the way is Sir Alec John Jeffreys, Emeritus Professor at Leicester University, who has been made Companion Of Honour (CH). A founding father of genetic profiling, he developed the …
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The Seasteading Institute backed by the US President-Elect’s new friend, Peter Thiel, the eccentric billionaire co-founder of PayPal and early-stage Facebook investor, is said to be extending the Seasteading project to Tahiti. Thiel, the model for the wacko billionaire Richard Gregory in the US TV series Silicon Valley, was one of the first backers of …
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Imec and IC assembly equipment manufacturer BE Semiconductor Industries (Besi) have demonstrated long-term reliability in five full size 60-cells Nickel/Copper/Silver (Ni/Cu/Ag) plated solar cell modules, confirming the industrial value of this metallization technology. The modules consist of 60 front side laser ablated and Ni-Cu-Ag plated p-type Cz-Si cells. The plating was performed with Meco’s Direct …
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A 40-pin solder-tag board for easy connection of your Raspberry Pi computer board is available from RS Components. The solder-tag board’s solder-tag terminals are positioned to match the 40 pins on the Raspberry Pi. Connecting via the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO header connector, the board allows you to solder and de-solder components using make and break solder connections. The holes in the tag board …
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The C6C-KLU and MSC C6B-KLH Type 6 COM Express modules, which are based on the just announced 14nm Kaby Lake Intel Core processors, are developed in Germany by MSC and are available from Avnet Embedded. With a form factor of 95 x 95mm the COM Express modules have a typical power consumption between 17W and …
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LEDs Magazine’s contributing editor Mark Halper talks with John Gordon, chief digital officer of GE’s newfangled energy and lighting group, Current, powered by GE.
Strategies in Light speaker Rita Renner explains how a smart city can be a safe city with an intelligent, adaptable LED street-light infrastructure at its core.