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Win A Lab Makeover with Farnell

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Today, Farnell element14 launched its Win-a-Lab-Makeover competition for education organisations in the UK to win the opportunity to have their teaching space refurbished. Schools, universities and other education charities are being invited to submit their establishment to be considered for a lab makeover worth up to £3,500. Farnell element14 has also partnered with Keysight to support …

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Keep Bluetooth turned off, it can be hacked

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Researchers at Context Information Security have demonstrated how easy it is to hack into a Bluetooth wireless interface. The researchers were able to connect to a commercially available wireless-connected toy via Bluetooth LE, upload a recording that they had made and make the toy playback the recording. They then triggered the toy’s recording functionality to …

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ALESSIO group aim at connected security

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ALESSIO,  funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with approximately 3.9 million euros, combines Infineon, Fraunhofer, Giesecke & Devrient, Siemens,  the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and WIBU-SYSTEMS in a project to develop ICs to deliver updatable security for connected embedded systems. Every new connected device in the Internet of Things is a potential target: …

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Micrium OS tackles multiple IoT standards

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Micrium has introduced the latest version of its µC/OS real-time operating system (RTOS). Micrium OS comes with an optimised RTOS kernel, communication stacks, file system and graphical user interface. The OS supports all major semiconductor providers including NXP, Renesas, Silicon Labs and STMicroelectronics. There is also a new Platform Builder tool to help with resolving …

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Infra-red luminair-to-luminair swarm communication controls lighting

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The Australian company Organic Response controls large lighting installations using liminair-to-luminaire communicate between immediate neighbours. Communication is based on modulated infra-red light signals from Osram high power infra-red LEDs. At the heart of the system are sensor nodes integrated in each luminaire with a motion sensor, an ambient light sensor and an infrared transmitter/receiver pair. …

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Beta Layout extends 3D-MID production capacity

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PCB manufacturer Beta Layout has added a 3D-MID production line to its prototype manufacturing capabilities. Using LDS (laser direct structuring) combined with a galvanic production line which is specifically developed for plating copper on 3D printed parts. The LDS process is accomplished with an LPKF Microline 3D 160i direct image structuring machine. The metallisation system …

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