Solar powered UAV wins Big Bang award

Piotr Lazarek from Dulwich College was awarded the Young Scientific Instrument Maker Award at The Big Bang Fair. Piotr in year 12, wowed the judges with his project ‘BMS for Solar Powered UAV’s’. As part of the project, Piotr sensed an opportunity and decided to design such a device, initiating a project and then a ...

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Solar powered UAV wins Big Bang award

Piotr Lazarek from Dulwich College was awarded the Young Scientific Instrument Maker Award at The Big Bang Fair. Piotr in year 12, wowed the judges with his project ‘BMS for Solar Powered UAV’s’. As part of the project, Piotr sensed an opportunity and decided to design such a device, initiating a project and then a ...

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Barometric pressure sensor tracks altitude in phones

Bosch Sensortec has launched  a barometric pressure sensor for smartphones, wearable and hearable devices.   The BMP390 delivers altitude tracking in smartphones as well as wearable and hearable devices. The sensor can measure height changes below 10 cm.                            Accurate altitude detection helps to localize ...

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Barometric pressure sensor tracks altitude in phones

Bosch Sensortec has launched  a barometric pressure sensor for smartphones, wearable and hearable devices.   The BMP390 delivers altitude tracking in smartphones as well as wearable and hearable devices. The sensor can measure height changes below 10 cm.                            Accurate altitude detection helps to localize ...

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Analogue and digital signal acquisition on 19 synchronous channels

Spectrum Instrumentation has added digital inputs to a series of analogue LXI/Ethernet-digitisers, to increase synchronous acquisition to eight analogue channels plus eight digital channels plus three multi-purpose I/O lines – 19 channels in total. Four models are available in the digitizerNetbox family: 5Msample/s DN2.591-08 20Msample/s DN2.592-08 40Msample/s DN2.593-08 125Msample/s DN2.596-08 The option to add eight digital channels changes the name ...

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Google gets first silicon of proprietary phone processor

Google has received back from Samsung the first working samples of its proprietary phone processor Whitechapel. Whitechapel was designed with Samsung to go on its 5nm process. The chip is said to have an 8-core Arm processor and will be optimised to run Google’s ML technology. It will also be geared to improving Google Assistant. ...

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Power Integration rolls-out GaN to PSUs for displays up to 75W

Power Integrations has added GaN parts to its InnoSwitch3-MX range of ac-dc mains power supply chips, intended for use in TVs, monitors and appliances up to 75W without a heatsink. This is part of a programme for the company, which is gradually rolling out GaN transistor higher-power versions of its various InnoSwitch3 ICs – see ...

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Pontypridd student wins Scientific Instrument Award

Seren Hopkins (pictured top right) from Pontypridd High School was honoured with the Young Scientific Instrument Maker Award at The Big Bang Fair. Seren in year 12, wowed the judges with her project ‘Auto-inflatable car roof-tent’. As part of the project, Seren created a 1/3 scale prototype for a pneumatically powered, automatic, inflatable car roof ...

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