RS cycle ride raises £230,000 for cancer charity

Staff from RS Components have completed an epic charity cycle ride, covering 1,100 miles from Aberdeen to London, raising £230,000 for Children with Cancer UK. . More than 60 employees took part in the ‘Tour de Branch’, which called at the firm’s 16 UK branches over 12 days, finishing at its London HQ where participants were greeted ...

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Raspberry Pi powers Pixxl Cube

A clever Hungarian adaptation of  that great Hungarian invention, Rubik’s Cube, uses Raspberry Pi to power a six-sided display. The creators call it the Pixxl Cube. Each 32×32 pixel surface is capable of creating anything from words to scenes. It could be used as an advertising display orbas a party prop. Budapest startup Pirategames programmed ...

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Western Digital extends RISC-V involvement

Western Digital is extending its involvement in RISC-V with two initiatives. First is a partnership with PlatformIO Labs to engage in RISC-V development tools. The second is adding enhancements to its open-sourced RISC-V SweRV Core and cache-coherent fabric, OmniXtend. Together, the moves  further the company’s support of  RISC-V and boost its development of compute architectures ...

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TI adds comms to MCUs

TI has added communications capabilities to its C2000 MCUs. C2000 F2838x 32-bit MCUs enable designers to use a single chip to implement connectivity, including EtherCAT, Ethernet and Controller Area Network with Flexible Data Rate (CAN FD), in AC servo drives and other industrial systems. Systems with communication interfaces often require an external application-specific integrated circuit ...

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SiP contains accelerometer and gyroscope for gaming, sports.

ST’s LSM6DSR MEMS SiP contains a 3-axis digital accelerometer and a 3-axis digital gyroscope with a specially extended full-scale angular rate of 4000 degrees per second for fast-moving gaming and sports applications. Compliant with major mobile OSes, and supporting S4S Synchronization for Sensors, the LSM6DSR is compatible with popular mobile platforms and provides real, virtual, ...

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