Protecting you and your home with IoT 25 November 2020, Smart Home Automation IoT technology gives people the power to keep a watchful eye on what is important to them, whether they are 200 metres or 200 kilometres away.
China launches 6G test satellite 25 November 2020 No sooner has 5G cellular technology started to be rolled out, than China has launched what has been described as “the world’s first 6G satellite” into space to test the technology.
With the telecoms ...
Microscopic robot that ‘walks’ 28 October 2020 Scientists at Cornell University have created a tiny micro-robot that ‘walks’ using four legs. Invisible to the naked eye, ten of the computer chip bots could fit within the full stop at the end of this ...
Electronics workforce training courses 28 October 2020 IPC has launched Electronics Workforce Training courses to help electronics companies and their employees. The courses will help IPC members overcome workforce skill gap challenges with essential and ...
Resource centre: Mouser’s new Customer Resource Centre 30 September 2020, TRX Electronics Mouser Electronics’ new Customer Resource Centre allows customers to easily take advantage of Mouser’s online purchasing services and tools through a central hub containing everything customers need to ...
Podcast: The safety behind connected vehicles 30 September 2020 Connected and increasingly autonomous vehicles offer those of us on the road a lot of benefits. But as cars become more electronic in nature and more like rolling computers, the role of safety becomes ...
Person presence detection demo video 31 August 2020, Altron Arrow Person presence detection is one of the demonstrations available in STMicroelectronics’ new FP-AI-VISION1 function pack. Running on STM32H7 and STM32L4, this demo shows how wide the range of artificial ...
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 ...
Multimedia: Make your own LED face mask 29 July 2020 Face masks have become a huge market in the COVID-19 era, and I’m sure we’ve all seen some pretty creative and funky designs over the last few months. But if you want one with real bling, a light-up face ...
Multimedia: Saving time routing in Altium Designer 20 29 July 2020, EDA Technologies Mark Ross is a long-time Altium Beta user and is Judy Warner’s guest in this OnTrack episode to share his insights and the value he gets from being a Beta user. He also chimes in on a long list of questions ...
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 ...
