Robin Mitchell

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Robin Mitchell is an electronic engineer who has been involved in electronics since the age of 13. After completing a BEng at the University of Warwick, Robin moved into the field of online content creation, developing articles, news pieces, and projects aimed at professionals and makers alike. Currently, Robin runs a small electronics business, MitchElectronics, which produces educational kits and resources.

How can Noise Make Signals Detectable?

When it comes to signal processing, noise is something that engineers go out of their way to reduce as much as possible. However, adding noise can sometimes be beneficial and allow

17-09-2020

Australia Introduces Code of Practice for IoT Devices

With the growing importance of IoT security and the lack of push from the industry to update systems, countries around the world are introducing a code of practices for IoT devices

16-09-2020

US to Impose Restrictions on Chinese Owned SMIC?

In the continuing technology war between the US and China, the US is considering imposing restrictions on one of Chinas largest IC manufactures, SMIC. Who is SMIC, what do they do,

15-09-2020

Should we encourage disposable electronics?

A recent study on digital pregnancy tests shows how they are nothing more than overcomplicated paper readers that use the same technology as manual pregnancy tests used by GPs. Wha

Environment | 11-09-2020

How software needs to pick up the slack in Moore’s Law

Software engineers have been heavily reliant on Moore’s law to get more processing power out of semiconductors, but increasing MIPS is now near its end. What problems does the semi

10-09-2020

X-Force Red Urges IoT Updates to Protect EHS8 from CVE-2020-15858

A Java vulnerability, called CVE-2020-15858, was discovered back in 2019 with a fix available since February. Now, X-Force Red, IBMs A-Team in security, is urging manufacturers to

09-09-2020

How MEMS Mirrors can make LiDAR Economical

LiDAR is a technology that creates a depth map using light ranging, but the technology is expensive and bulky. How can MEMS mirrors help to bring the cost of LiDAR down, what is Li

09-09-2020

Moore’s Law – Let’s go up instead of down!

With Moore’s law coming to an end, silicon foundries are looking at inventive ways to continue the number of transistors on ICs. One way is to go up instead of down, so what are 3D

08-09-2020