Video Reel: Microchip’s SAM L11 30 June 2020, Altron Arrow This video (www.dataweek.co.za/*jun20-sam) provides a brief overview of Microchip Technology’s SAM L11 comprehensive security solution framework and demos to make implementation of security simple. Microchip’s ...
Video reel: product videos 29 May 2020, Altron Arrow Murata has released a series of videos showing off its CT04120 range of small lithium ion secondary batteries – innovative rechargeable batteries which can be charged/discharged at a high rate and used ...
Video Reel: RFID evaluation board 29 April 2020, Altron Arrow The ST25RU3993-EVAL board is an STMicroelectronics RAIN RFID (UHF) reader system based on the ST25RU3993 integrated reader IC. The objective of the ST25RU3993-EVAL board is to provide engineers, students ...
Video reel: Compact fanless PC cooling technology 25 March 2020 This video introduces Compulab’s Airtop technology and illustrates how the natural airflow (NAF) technology can cool 200 W without any fans.
Video reel: SensorTile.box 25 March 2020 This one-hour webinar recording introduces STMicroelectronics’ SensorTile.box, a ready-to-use sensor kit for developing and using applications based on remote motion and environmental sensor data for wireless IoT and wearable sensor applications.
Video reel: Skin-detection software could improve smartphone security 25 March 2020 Smartphones such as the iPhone and Pixel allow users to unlock the device with their faces but sometimes that software can be fooled. Software company TrinamiX has developed an alternative that it says ...
Video reel: TouchGFX GUI software 26 February 2020, Altron Arrow This video from STMicroelectronics shows how you can download the free TouchGFX GUI software, try the out-of-the-box supported STM32H7B3I-DK, and eliminate the need for external RAM, when developing your ...
Video reel: 'Engineering Big Ideas' 26 February 2020 Mouser Electronics has released the final instalment of its award-winning ‘Engineering Big Ideas’ video series, presented by celebrity engineer and television presenter Grant Imahara.
Video Reel: MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 29 January 2020 A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) came up with a surprisingly simple scheme for swarms of robots to achieve a true hive-like mind of coordination: self-assembling ...
Video Reel: Apple watch scan 25 November 2019 Not many people own one, and even fewer people want to, but there’s no doubting that the Apple Watch 5 is an astonishing engineering feat. The teardown supremoes at System Plus Consulting performed a ...
Video Reel: Neighbourhood fire alarm 25 November 2019 Fires are common and spread quickly in informal settlements where homes are packed tightly together. This video from the BBC features a South African company that designed an alarm to warn whole neighbourhoods ...
Video Reel: SeeBlocks in action 25 November 2019 Local company K Measure, as part of its Seebox developments, has developed a new educational innovation to make electronic circuit building quick, easy and intuitive for the learner. With SeeBlocks, building ...
Video Reel: Lithium-ion batteries - Thermal runaway 25 November 2019 One of the most controversial issues with lithium-ion batteries is their tendency to suffer thermal runaway. Some of the most egregious cases of this phenomenon occurred when so-called ‘hoverboards’ took ...
Online training: Battery Safety and Protection Overview 23 October 2019, Electronics Technology So many of the portable devices, electronic equipment, and tools we use every day are powered with lithium-ion battery systems. But one challenge for engineers who design these lithium-ion-powered products ...
Video Reel: October 23 October 2019, News • The CSIR has developed an electronic device that monitors indoor carbon dioxide levels and generates an alarm when corrective action is needed. You can watch a video about it at www.dataweek.co.za/*csirvid1019...
How graphene is made 31 January 2017, News This video from the Science Channel shows the amazing processes that must be performed to create the equally amazing material graphene, which is touted as the leading contender to supersede silicon as ...
Smartphone camera films on quantum dots 14 October 2015, Electronics Technology
QuantumFilm technology from InVisage has been demonstrated for the first time with this short film shot by a smartphone camera with a sensor that uses quantum dots for improved sensitivity. Made up ...
Man-made trees harvest energy 25 February 2015, News Scientists at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have prototyped a tree that harvests solar energy from its surroundings, stores it and turns it into electricity to power small devices such as mobile ...
What a Star Wars style ‘laser bullet’ would really look like 29 October 2014, News
Scientists at the Laser Centre of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science have used a high-power laser to record the journey of a light projectile. They then used a special ...
