The UK Space Agency and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) – the UK’s national laboratory for nuclear fission – are to collaborate on building a UK space battery. It is described as the first battery to be powered by Americium-241, a radioactive isotope of the synthetic element americium. The work, funded by the UK Space ...
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Continuing its Industrial IoT (IIoT) theme – following the release of the Arduino PLC IDE – Arduino has announced the Arduino Opta, which it describes as an “easy-to-use micro PLC with Industrial IoT capabilities”. Designed in partnership with Finder – an industrial and building automation device manufacturer – it’s aimed at professional developers wanting to ...
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EnSilica took home three TechWorks Awards at the industry body’s recent annual gala dinner and awards ceremony. And Sean Redmond, CEO of Vertizan, was also honoured. The fabless chipmaker won the TechNES Design Award and Company of the Year Award. An engineer at the company, Omotade Iluromi, also won the Young Engineer of the Year ...
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Arduino has released Arduino PLC IDE a new version of its IDE (integrated development environment) software for use with PLCs (programmable logic controllers). The software supports the use of Ladder Diagrams, Functional Block Diagrams, Structured Text, Sequential Function Charts and Instruction Lists – the five languages officially defined by the IEC 61131-3 standard. It would ...
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Wyld Networks has officially launched its satellite IoT service, enabling battery-based applications to be deployed in remote locations without terrestrial connectivity. Example applications using the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites could be utility and energy companies monitoring their systems and equipment without site visits, data being collected for agriculture and environmental management, and goods and ...
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The long-anticipated first satellite launch from European soil – involving a Virgin Orbit launch from Spaceport Cornwall – has been put back once again, this time into 2023. While not all licensing for the launch has been completed, it also seems that technical issues have arisen, delaying the process. The Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket is ...
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Digi-key Electronics has launched its 14th annual DigiWish Giveaway, giving engineers a chance to win some electronics via the use of social media. To enter, participants must select one in-stock Digi-Key product, valued up to $100, and comment or post their wish on a social platform (Facebook, Instagram or Twitter) using the hashtag #DigiWish. One ...
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Reflex Aerospace, the German startup satellite manufacturer, has announced it has raised €7 million in a first funding round. The company – along with Mynaric, Isar Aerospace and SES – is part of the joint venture UNIO, which aims to build a European satellite constellation for broadband internet access. This was actually the first of ...
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Digi-Key Electronics has announced that it will match donations made to KiCad, the open-source software EDA suite for Electronic Design Automation. The offer runs from 1-7 December up to a value of $15,000. According to its creators, the goal of KiCad is to provide “the best possible cross-platform electronics design application for professional electronics designers”. ...
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Ash Madni, WIMMIC’s Technical Director, tells how his lifelong adventure in electronics began with the discovery of the world of Bipolar transistors, namely the BC108… It all started when I was 13 years old at school. A class mate was an Electronics hobbyist and during break, he talked animatedly about what he was going to ...
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