UK School Robot Competition 2020 won by AR robot Aspiration

For this year’s School Robot Competition, the EPSRC UK Robotics & Autonomous Systems (UK-RAS) Network and educational publisher Twinkl asked school groups to design a space explorer robot. Despite lockdown, the competition attracted a record number of entries and the overall winners are team ‘Aspiration’, from St Bernard’s Catholic Grammar in Slough. Their AR robot ...

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How about an electrochromic display?

Canadian company Ynvisible is offering custom electrochromic displays on thin flexible substrates. This is a new spin on an existing technology, characterised by low power consumption and image retention for tens of minutes after power is removed. It works by driving ions in and out of the visible surface to change its colour, using a ...

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Compact module adds RF remote mains control to… …nearly anything

RF Solutions has created a single-channel remote control problem-solver that can switch up to 1kW of mains load. Called RF Ferret, it has a 21 x 76mm footprint and uses change-over relay as an output. There are three RF Ferrets: Ferret-4R1 433MHz 6-24V Ferret-8R1 868MHz 6-24V Ferret-9R1 918MHz 12V All can be switched between momentary and ...

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Better 40V and 60V p-channel mosfets for high-side switching

Rohm is aiming at 24V high-side switching applications with a range of 40V and 60V p-channel singe and dual mosfets. “These products utilise Rohm’s 5th gen refined process to achieve a finer gate structure and higher current density than Rohm’s conventional products, resulting in the class-leading low on-resistance per unit area for 24V input -40V ...

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Gaggione simplifies fitting of LLC25x collimators

Gaggion has removed the moulding sprue from the alignment edge of its LLC25x colour-mixing collimator range, so they will now sit flush on a flat mounting annulus, with no need for a notch. These are 32mm optics, with non-chip-imaging characteristics to create even beams from single or multi-chips RGBW, tunable white or standard white leds. See ...

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QuickLogic launches Qomu development kit

QuickLogic has introduced its Qomu development kit, a tiny form factor Arm Cortex-M4F MCU + eFPGA combination that fits into a USB Type A port. Optimised for the QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing (QORC) initiative, the kit is supported by a wide variety of vendor-supported open source development tools, including Zephyr, FreeRTOS, SymbiFlow and Renode, which ...

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SECO to IPO

SECO, the embedded specialist, is to IPO  on the Mercato Telematico Azionario managed by Borsa Italiana (“MTA”) as part of the market’s Star Segment. “By going public, we aim to raise the financial resources to further accelerate our growth and reinforce our international presence,” says CEO Massimo Mauri (pictured), “over the course of 2020 we ...

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Major changes in IC manufacturing base.

The IC market enjoyed a double-digit increase in sales in 2020 and is forecast to see double-digit revenue gains each year through 2023, says IC Insights, so it is not surprising that fab capacity is on the rise to support this growth. Global wafer capacity growth in 2020 was the strongest since 2011 despite the pandemic.  The forecast calls ...

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Leti launches 6G research project

CEA-Leti has announced a 6G research project called RISE-6G. It will design, prototype and test smart and energy-sustainable technological advances based on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) that will enable programmable control and shaping of the wireless propagation environment. These surfaces may be diode-based antennas or metamaterials for coating objects in the environment, such as walls, ...

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Darpa investigates commercial sector support for Moon manufacturing

The US’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is to survey the private sector about developing designs and materials for building large structures on the Moon. The R&D organisation, which operates within the United States Department of Defense, has announced its “Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design” (NOM4D, pronounced “NOMAD) programme. Highlighting ...

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