The Centre for Microsystems Technologies (CMST), an Imec-associated lab at Ghent University, has developed smart plastics and smart textiles from which designers created clothing and masks that light up with colour and animation depending on the wearer’s brain activity. The CMST technology can realise randomly shaped electronic circuits with integrated lighting. The technology is based on …
Mouser signs Particle
Mouser has signed up Particle, a prototype-to-production platform for IoT products. With Particle’s hardware development kits and connectivity modules, people from all skill levels — from new makers to engineering experts — can build IoT products and connect them to the web via Particle Cloud, says Mouser. After connecting a device, users can write firmware …
UK Takes Lion’s Share Of European VC Funding
Worldwide VCs raised $16.3 billion in new funds in Q1 and $16.9 billion in Q2, reports Pitchbook. VCs invested $40 billion in Q2 which was up 20% on Q2 2015 although the number of companies receiving investment went down 47% as investors went for big deals with established companies. In Europe, Q2 VC funding for …
Fullerphone modelled
I thought I would try to model a pair of World War I Fullerphones communicating – these were stealth telegraphs for trench warfare. And here is the result, courtesy of Linear Technology’s excellent LTSpice. Left is a Fullerphone in transmit mode, modelled as a 200ms burst of 500Hz 1.5V squarewave pulses in series with 200Ω …
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Slim Jim races away with BBC micro:bit Model Rocket Car
The race to win the England and Wales National Final of the BBC micro:bit Model Rocket Car Competition has taken place. Who won?
WaterWorld Weekly Newscast, July 4, 2016
A transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for July 4, 2016.
Lighting Industry Association partners with University of South Wales
The University of South Wales (USW) and the Lighting Industry Association (LIA) have announced a formal partnership, which will see the development of a range of specialist lighting courses.
Lighting Industry Association partners with University of South Wales
Harwin opens £3m factory extension in Portsmouth
Connector maker Harwin has opened its new £3m manufacturing centre in Portsmouth, increase floor space on the site by 33%. The 3,000m² building was opened by HRH Prince Michael of Kent. “We are committed to high quality manufacturing in the UK and we had outgrown our existing facilities, so to meet our growth plans, we had …
Skeleton helps to build airship
UK ultracapacitor manufacturer Skeleton Technologies will join French firm Flying Whales’ programme to build an airship for the global transport market. The main advantage of the LCA60T will be its ability to transport heavy and oversized cargo of up to 60 tons either in its 75m-long hold or underslung, at speeds of 100 km/h, with …
Picture of the Day: Juno spacecraft enters orbit of Jupiter
Okay it is only an illustration, not a real photograph, but it is good to mark Juno’s arrival – five years in the travelling – into the orbit of Jupiter.