From bulky vacuum tubes to compact high performance microprocessors the evolution of electronic components over the years has always been evident. This section covers all the recent technological advancement in the electronics industry and the new-age products that have hit the electronics market recently.
PoE FeatherWing from Silicognition LLC is an expansion board that adds PoE support to Adafruit Feather boards. The expansion board can handle up to 4 Watts of power and comes with a built-in globally unique MAC address. The PoE FeatherWing supports IEEE 802.3at Class 1, Mode A and Mode B Power over Ethernet (PoE) with up to 4W available. It has Microchip…
The Neurotechnology startup-NextMind demonstrated its groundbreaking technology, brain-sensing wearable at CES last year. The latest news is that the company is all set to make it available for developers on pre-order. The first-of-its-kind, non-invasive, brain-computer interface translates brain signals instantly from the user’s visual cortex into digital commands for any…
Researchers from ETH Zurich have come up with an ultrafast chip to be used for converting fast electronic signals directly into ultrafast light signals with no loss of signal quality. This is the first time ever that the electronic and light-based elements have been combined on the same chip. The experiment was performed in collaboration with partners in Ger…
Bioengineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have come up with a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English speech in real-time through a smartphone app. The system includes a pair of gloves with thin, stretchable sensors that run through the length of each of the five fingers.
The sensors on…
Saelig Company Inc. has introduced the GWInstek GLC-9000 Leakage Current Tester for testing leakage current on general-purpose electric equipment to make sure the product complies with specific standards and regulations such as IEC, UL, JIS, etc. The tester uses nine measurement device network to simulate the human body interacting with equipment under test. The tester comes…
The ATmega644/1284-based narrow boards are the small development boards and microcontrollers for small footprint Arduino projects. The Narrow boards give you 2 to 8 times more flash and RAM resources as compared to Uno/Nano and offer total compatibility. The code generated on 8-bit MCUs is much smaller than on 32-bit MCUs. Hence, the bigger program can be loaded on a 128k 8-…
SlothBot is a slow-moving and energy-efficient robot built by robotics engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Taking advantage of the low-energy lifestyle of real sloths, the solar-powered SlothBot demonstrates how being slow can be ideal for certain applications. It can linger in the trees to monitor animals, plants, and the environment below. Using…
The Cambridge-based startup, Paragraf has collaborated with the Magnetic Measurement section at CERN to demonstrate the potential of graphene-based Hall effect sensors to improve accuracy in magnetic measurement applications. Overcoming the shortfalls of existing Hall effect sensors that exhibit planar Hall effects that produce false signals, Hall effect Sensor from Paragraf…
Putting tens of thousands of tiny memristors (memory transistors), the team of Engineers at MIT has come up with a chip named ‘brain-on-a-chip’. The silicon-based components that mimic the human brain's information are put onto a single chip. Proving to be a stepping stone, the chip when run through various tasks has the ability to "remember" and reproduce stored images.…
Digi-Key Electronics announced that it has partnered with Truphone to bring cellular IoT connectivity services to manufacturers worldwide. The partnership will provide customers with connected cellular devices and a fully managed service.
Digi-Key will use Truphone’s state of the art SIM technology, allowing users to connect IoT devices to…
STMicroelectronics announces the availability of a compact and cost-…
As the automobiles are transitioning from mechanical to electrical, the use of ECUs (electronic control units) has increased to a higher percentage. The ECUs in the electric vehicles act as the brainpower of the vehicle and are responsible for all the most important features such as safety with the help of ADAS, precise engine control, connectivity, efficiency, and comfort.…
