Gaggione has introduced a set of low-profile optics for wall washing and zoom beam applications . Branded ‘Ultra Flat Optic’ – or UFO – there are 45mm diameter asymmetric (wall washing, top photo) or zoom versions, plus a 67mm zoom version. To keep height down, the rears have Fresnel-like structures (left) to gather light. Total ...
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ClearCore CLCR-4-13 is an industrial IO and motion controller that can be programmed using the Arduino IDE. It handles up to four axes of step-and-direction motion control (500kHz max step rate), and provides 13 software-configurable protected 24V-compatible I/Os. “You can download the optional ClearCore Arduino Wrapper Library. This allows you to write code within the easy-to-use ...
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In a world of double and triple ordering, Broadcom is trying to give customers what they want – but not too much of it. “We do not want our customers, and I don’t think any of our peers want to do that either, to buy, to hoard, to create buffers, to buy ahead of what ...
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Supersonic commercial aviation, which ended with the retirement of Concord in 2003, could be on the way back. Yesterday United Airlines announced it was buying 15 supersonic passenger aircraft from Boom Supersonic of Colorado with an option to buy 35 more. The planes are scheduled to enter service in 2029. They can carry 65 to ...
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A £210 million investment by the government and IBM to establish the Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI), based at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Daresbury Laboratory in the Liverpool City Region, will create vacancies for 60 scientists and opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience in quantum computing and AI. Industrial applications of ...
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A multi-vendor O-RAN laboratory trial has shown that the approach can double the capacity of 5G sites. Vodafone and Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the O-RAN collaborative group, ran the test using equipment from Cohere Technologies, VMware, Capgemini Engineering and Intel. The test used a programmable AI RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) compatible with open RAN components ...
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Paragraf is in volume production of the GHS-C Graphene Hall Sensor (GHS), providing the industry’s only viable approach to measuring magnetic field strengths of 7 Tesla (T) and above, at temperature extremes below 3 Kelvin (K). The device is optimised to provide high field measurements while operating at cryogenic temperatures. It achieves this while dissipating ...
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Electronics Weekly is pleased to announce that the 2021 Elektra Awards are now open for entries from the electronics industry. We’re slowly emerging from the shadow of the global pandemic, and electronics companies worldwide have been busy creating game-changing technologies that are helping to shape the future of the industry. These incredible achievements will be ...
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RS Components has launched a portfolio of connection products under its Pro brand. “The extended portfolio boasts a substantially increased selection of wiring and connectivity devices including industrial circular, heavy-duty, power and DIN types, as well as a selection of cables, including CAT 8 cables, and cable assemblies for industrial automation and Ethernet network applications, ...
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Shropshire immersive meeting room company Igloo Vision has secured £2m of funding, led by a debt investment from Frontier Development Capital (FDC). This follows ~£1m of equity raised last year from Ingenious and others. The company’s business has been renting and selling dome-like ‘igloos’ inside which its software displays 360° content around the walls. “Going forward, ...
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