A joint promotion between Raspberry Pi’s Code Club programme and Aardman Animations challenged primary school students across the globe to show off their coding skills with an animation based on the Shaun the Sheep films. The contest was open for seven weeks and any registered Code Club was eligible to enter. It closed with 683 ...
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Hong Kong X’tals is stocking its Global Navigation Satellite System Disciplined Oscillator (GNSSDO) of the K-Star series at Rutronik. The disciplined oscillator receives signals from satellites to generate one pulse-per-second output. It supports concurrent reception of signals from GPS, Glonass, Beidu and Galileo. The K-Star GNSSDO is available in a form factor of 155x165x55mm at ...
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Cobham Wireless has announced that its idDAS (intelligent digital distributed antenna system) is now providing 4G coverage in Berlin’s U-Bahn for subscribers of all three of Germany’s major mobile operators. The news follows an initial deployment with Telefónica, which involved replacing legacy equipment with Cobham Wireless’ idDAS, and delivering 2G, 3G and 4G cellular coverage ...
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Arrows Electronics is offering R3 Communications’ Echoring wireless networking products in the EMEA region. Echoring is designed to support reliable, low-latency wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communications systems. Both industrial IoT or Industry 4.0 require wireless networks with the performance and reliability of existing wired control networks. R3 says Echoring delivers real-time performance levels with latency down ...
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Mouser Electronics is stocking the S32K ISELED enabled microcontrollers from NXP Semiconductors. Part of NXP’s family of S32K automotive-qualified microcontrollers, these devices offer the same feature set in addition to the ISELED communication protocol. The protocol avoids external processes and targets well-balanced light parameters with tight calibration and processing control for RGB LEDs. The microcontrollers ...
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Engineers Without Borders UK has launched the 2020 cycle of the Engineering for People design challenge, in partnership with the organisation’s South Africa and USA chapters. The competition calls on first and second-year university students to consider the social, economic and environmental impact of their engineering and tasks them to propose a solution that could ...
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TT Electronics has announced the latest series to be added to its green thick-film chip portfolio – the GBCN, a thick-film chip array which is free of Pb (lead) and lead compounds. As environmental regulations become increasingly stringent, the GBCN series allows designers to achieve exemption-free compliance with the EU’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) ...
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Climate change will be the biggest challenge facing the engineers of tomorrow, according to recipients of the Arkwright Engineering Scholarship surveyed at a recent ceremony. Nearly half of the teenagers, who are taking their first steps in an engineering career, think climate change is the biggest challenge facing UK scientists and engineers over the next ...
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Toshiba has announced a range of eFuse IC products. The range comprises six products in the TCKE8xx series which support various protection functions for power supply lines. Unlike traditional fuses, eFuses are resettable. They also offer over-current limit accuracy of ±11%, overvoltage protection, and over-temperature protection in addition to short-circuit protection. Offered in a 3x3mm, ...
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Mouser Electronics has announced a global distribution agreement with sensor manufacturer Amphenol SSI. Through the agreement, Mouser stocks Amphenol SSI products including pressure sensors and gauges, drum liquid level gauges, and combination temperature and pressure gauges. Amphenol SSI P51 pressure Mediasensor and P61 pressure and temperature Mediasensor families are micro-machined sensors designed to measure harsh ...
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