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Mr. Postman, the modern mailbox

Catwell

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...
- 7 Jan 2014
Mr.

e14 Contributor

help me to connect graphical display based on ks0108 controller to the arduinohow to add libraries to the proteus version 8
- 5 Jan 2014
ARM grabs graphics company, looks to increase the eye-candy in mobile games

Catwell

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...
- 2 Jan 2014
Supreme Court mulls decision on software patenting

Catwell

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)...
- 13 Dec 2013
Type-C USB technology will be reversible and streamline electronic devices

Catwell

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...
- 10 Dec 2013
littleBits collaborates with Korg on soon to be released Synth Kit

Catwell

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...
- 4 Dec 2013
Computer History Museum releases Apple II source code after 35 years

Catwell

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...
- 20 Nov 2013
IBM opens research lab in Nairobi, looks to tap local resources to address public issues

Catwell

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...
- 20 Nov 2013
Panasonic Polymer Family Capacitors - Speed Up Your Design for Embedded Application!

jing.liu

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...
- 14 Oct 2013
New Sensor Hub from Texas Instruments Debuts at Design West

GardenState

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...
- 25 Apr 2013
COTO Technology Announces Smallest MEMS-Based Magnetic Reed Switch at Design West

GardenState

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 ...
- 25 Apr 2013
Atmel Introduces New Development Tools at Design West

GardenState

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...
- 24 Apr 2013
AMD Targets Embedded Markets with New AMD Embedded G-Series SoC

GardenState

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...
- 24 Apr 2013
Wind River Announces New Release of VxWorks MILS Platform at Design West

GardenState

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...
- 24 Apr 2013
$45, 1-GHz BeagleBone Black Debuts at Design West

GardenState

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...
- 23 Apr 2013
Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, ARM Tools Featured at element14’s Design West Booth

GardenState

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...
- 23 Apr 2013
Embedded Wireless in the Spotlight at Design West

GardenState

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...
- 23 Apr 2013
Look for Us at Design West

GardenState

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...
- 4 Apr 2013
Analysis of the C2000 Piccolo processor from Texas Instruments.

DAB

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...
- 10 Dec 2012
which language 'll i use to write code that perform face recognetion?

aml

if i want to do face recognetion is it must to use matlab in my code to do this?can i use only java or c# ?what i want to say is it compulsary to use matlab with java or with c# to perform face recognetion ?please i need your help . i'm looking forwa...
- 10 Nov 2012
More than 2Gbps achieved with SuperSpeed USB Core in FPGA - on a complete hardware system!

ngadhia

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- 18 Oct 2012
Cheap compiler to modify .lib files

gwlinn

The "free", open source, lib files for Arduino are great unless you have different hardware or want to do something differently. For example, the keypad lib is for a 3 X 3 keypad whereas I have a 4 X 4. To modify this, or any other open s...
- 18 Sep 2012
Kinetis L Series, the World’s Most Energy-Efficient MCUs ~

squadMCU

On Tuesday (June 19, 2012) at Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Americas, an impressive energy-efficiency killer demo was presented during the opening keynote. Showcased were the first MCUs built on the ARM®︎ Cortex™︎-M0+ processors: The brand new Frees...
- 21 Jun 2012
Designing with SuperSpeed and NAND Flash

ngadhia

The TrendThere is a trend observed in the market for designing products with SuperSpeed USB and NAND Flash inside. There are camera manufacturers, printer manufacturers as well as FLASH drive manufacturers involved in the trend. It is crucial, ...
- 20 Jun 2012
CodeWarrior and StarCore are digital processing even better! ~

squadMCU

StarCore technology offers fully scalable and flexible solutions at low cost, these high-performance low power programmable devices for baseband, aerospace, defense, medical and test and measurement solutions allow to get to market faster. CodeW...
- 24 May 2012