The LinkIt ONE development board, which aids in the easy prototyping of wearable and IoT devices, has been released by Seeed Studio. The board, which was designed for the MediaTek LinkIt Development Platform, was developed by Seeed Studio ...
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Judit Eszter Karpati, a Budapest-based textile designer, has recently created a unique colour changing fabric that can blend itself with the colour of the background, just like a chameleon.“Made in USA” products is becoming an ...
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Many older engineers first became interested in electronics through hobbies in their youth—assembling kits, participating in amateur radio, or engaging in other experiments. But I have wondered whether or not students entering ...
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Urban Matter Inc. has just completed installing noise interactive LED lights on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway pedestrian pathway. The lights are lit up by the New York City Department of Transportation and the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn ...
Printing an object in three-dimensional form, called 3-D printing, has been around since the 1980s. But it has received more attention lately because of the materials now used for printing, along with a concurrent price drop for 3-D ...
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NliteN has just added the dimmable 2D-Lux™ Smart LED Disk (SLEDD) to its campaign on Indiegogo. The 2D-Lux SLEDD, a 60W-incandescent-replacement LED smart "bulb", adds an Atmel AVR microcontroller, USB interface, and ...
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What would life be like if computer pixels came to life? What if you could touch, turn and even sit on those pixels that you normally just see on the screen? This artist's interpretation gives you a real time look and feel of exactly what ...
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As one of the hottest topics in global technology and with the first products starting to appear on the market, element14 is challenging engineers and developers to design and develop their own piece of wearable technology. The global ...
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Like Design by Habits During the workshop"Arduino and the light",which was held in Milan in the middle of June,participants created an interactive lamp,which was designed by Habits Studio.One of the goals was to let the participants learn ...
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Open-source board maker BeagleBoard.org has introduced a bare-bones PC starting at $45, bringing it closer to the popular Raspberry Pi, which offers basic models for $25 and $35. The $45 BeagleBoard Black has no casing and comes in the ...
SparkFun Electronics, a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, has announced that the company's going to be offering some workshops and speeches at the Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON), taking ...
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Arduino has gone mobile by offering a GPRS/GSM add-on module to the Arduino motherboard. This will allow the development platform to connect to the internet via GSM mobile phone networks. The module, or shield, was developed in ...
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Lime Microsystems has launched an open-source RF initiative to support the wireless design community. Dubbed Myriad-RF, the non-profit initiative, aims to attract the interest of hobbyists and design engineers with low-cost RF boards and ...
Infineon has released samples of its ARM Cortex-M0 based LED lighting microcontroller family. Included in the family, called XMC1000, are MCUs that include a peripheral, the brightness and colour control unit (BCCU), that can dim and ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS - With app development, serendipity matters. Ruggero Scorcioni knows that better than almost anybody. Scorcioni showed up in Las Vegas last weekend to enter an AT&T 26-hour app development hackathon, primarily ...
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