Promo pictures of the kit. Seems like a good idea. I wonder how durable the paint is over time... (via Tony Yu & Kickstarter)While technology has brought us the glorious touch screen phone, it has yet to bring us gloves that work well with the il...
Audience eS700 voice processing chips. (via Audience) With the myriad of NSA spying scandals hitting the headlines on a weekly basis, it’s surprising that it hasn’t over-shadowed the legitimacy of using ‘listening technology’ for touchless inter...
LG’s G Flex smartphone. It doesn't flex... but it is a curved panel. (via LG)Flexible electronics are quickly becoming the rage for companies looking to capitalize on the bendy tech. Products are already flooding the market since their mainstream...
IBM Graphene RF IC. Read the full report in the following link. (via Nature)Engineers at IBM Research recently announced that they have successfully built the world’s most advanced graphene-based RF chip to date, which may change the functionality of...
Bigger is not always better. Kinetis mini MCUs are a new category of Kinetis MCUs powered by ARM®︎ Technology and available in a variety of tiny wafer-level chip-scale packages (WLCSPs), currently starting at just 1.9 x 2 mm2. www.youtube.com/wat...
OBsIV’s XIM4 console adapter... app based tuning is an important next step. (via XIM) The XIM3 was amazing (see the tear-down)… does the XIM4 live up to the same standards?Ask any gamer on the planet and they will tell you there are two factions...
IoT connected mailbox... or is it just a package monitor? (via kickstarter)The Internet of Things is fast approaching and many appliances and everyday objects are beginning to become connected to the internet. With the plethora of devices now availab...
Geomerics’ Enlighten lighting engine featured in Battlefield 4. Mobile will be able to play games.. but the HMI is still lacking! (via ARM)Gaming on mobile devices has come a long way in the last five years due to avalanche advancements in technology...
U.S. Supreme Court building... (via USGOV & wiki) When it comes to software patents, the waters are pretty murky and there’s an obscure line between what can and cannot be patented. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)...
The standard USB is getting a facelift. Its USB 3.0 Promoter group recently announced development of a new USB cable port, called the USB Type-C connector. The new cable connector will be slimmer, reversible and will streamline virtually all el...
littleBits Synth Kit (via Littlebits)A while ago a tech startup, littleBits, designed and developed a series of electronic circuit board modules that can be connected together (using magnets) to perform any number of functions. The idea was to get ch...
The Apple II, circa 1978. Its OS is now available... will it be ported? (via Computer History Museum) Back in the 70’s, Apple was just a fledgling start-up created by a couple of guys named Steve and Ronald Wayne in an effort to bring affordable...
IBM researchers in Africa. Those are some heavy formulas! (via IBM) IBM recently opened its twelfth global research laboratory in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, in an effort to tap local resources both natural and human to bolster the city’s com...
Panasonic Polymer Family Capacitor Technologies including SP-Cap, POSCAP, OS-CON and Conductive Polymer Hybrid capacitors, provide you following excellent total solution for Embedded application: - High reliability- High efficiency in small case...
Texas Instruments has announced the Sensor Hub BoosterPack for its Tiva C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad at Design West 2013. The new BoosterPack is a plug-in daughter card that allows ARM Cortex-M4 MCU developers to create products with up to seven types...
Coto Technology introduced its RedRock RS-A-2515 Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)-based magnetic reed switch at Design West in San Jose. Based on its high aspect ratio MEMS design and manufacturing processes, the switch is said to provide ...
Atmel Corporation used the forum of Design West to launch a new integrated development tools platform, a complete hardware and software product specifically designed to support Atmel MCUs including its recent ARM Cortex-M4-based SAM4L family. Sp...
At Design West AMD announced its new Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (SOC) platform, a single-chip solution based on its “Jaguar” CPU architecture and AMD Radeon 8000 Series graphics. According to the company the AMD Embedded G-Series signifies a st...
At Design West embedded and mobile software supplier Wind River introduced the latest version of its VxWorks platform, a secure separation kernel that provides Type 1 hypervisor–based, multiple independent levels of security (MILS) for systems that m...
BeagleBone Black, the next-generation offering from BeagleBoard.org, is a low-cost ($45), community-supported development platform for ARM Cortex-A8 processor developers and hobbyists. Its Sitara AM335x processor (from TI) enhances the user exp...
Visitors to the Newark element14 booth at Design West found it overflowing with hands-on demos, product giveaways, video Q&As, and tutorials on Arduino-based applications, ARM development tools, the next-generation BeagleBone, and, of course,&nbs...
Just when it seems like wireless communications has reached a cost/performance peak, one supplier or another comes along and pushes the bar even higher. As a result the market for semiconductors covering such wireless protocols as Bluetooth, for exam...
Held in San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley the four-day Design West event (April l 22-25) is a technical conference and expo for systems designers, entrepreneurs and technology professionals in the electronics industry. Over 250 exhibitors...
Update 26 January 2013 I inadvertantly used the TI Piccolo dual processor spec when I made the blog.I will make an updated C2000 Launchpad blog soon. Analysis of the TI C2000 Piccolo Dual Croe Processor. As some of you might have...
