Do People Want Self Driving Cars? There are now close to 280 companies worldwide working on technology related to the development of driverless (autonomous) cars. They include heavyweights from the German car industry and the likes of Google. But the question...

By Paul Whytock | 05-10-2017

In Part I of this environmentally related look at how lithium battery powered electric vehicles (EVs) could have a substantially negative impact on our planet it became clear the problem with such batteries relates to how the materials they use are mined and t...

Environment | By Paul Whytock | 27-09-2017

Anyone involved in the power supply sector knows it is a ferociously cost conscious business. Keeping the bean-counters happy at both the manufacturing and the purchasing end involves some clever technological developments and as usual it is the engineers who...

By Paul Whytock | 22-09-2017

A friend of mine recently bought himself a Tesla X and I have to say it’s a great looking vehicle and I had to agree with him that the performance figures are impressive and would certainly wipe the grin off any Porsche Carrera driver’s face. But when it came...

Environment | By Paul Whytock | 12-09-2017

There has been a spate of news recently about how today’s electronically sophisticated cars are vulnerable to hacking and a recent story that Chinese researchers posing as hackers were able to gain access to a stationary Tesla electric car from 12 miles away h...

By Paul Whytock | 31-08-2017

Irresponsible droners could be forced to license their machines or be grounded by software that makes their drone inoperable. Electroblog in the past has written about the real danger drones represent when flown in commercial airline flight space, not to m...

By Paul Whytock | 23-08-2017

Autumn sees the launch of our fantastic new website, electromaker.io, with many prizes on offer! We are launching this exciting new resource in November which will enable makers from all over the world to join our community to learn, collaborate and share proj...

By Nigel Seymour | 22-08-2017

Some of you film buffs out there may remember Laurence Olivier asking Dustin Hoffman that same question in the film Marathon Man. Now whereas the wrong answer from Hoffman resulted in considerable pain at the hands of Olivier’s mad dentist character, users of...

By Paul Whytock | 18-08-2017

Many AC-DC electronic power supplies are now certified to meet the ITE (Information Technology Equipment) IEC 60950-1 standard and also the medical IEC 60601-1 standard. These supplies often have two internal fuses, one in the Line and one in the Neutral conn...

By Robin Jeffrey | 14-08-2017

Hearable technology has leapt forward recently. Kick-started by innovative new products like Doppler Lab’s Hear One earbuds and Apple’s Airpods. This exciting new category of device is redefining what a wearable should look and sound like. Today’s most suc...

By Mark Patrick | 08-08-2017

A new generation of wearable devices is finally finding its “killer app”, writes Mouser’s Mark Patrick Wearable devices have been among the most anticipated and talked-about consumer electronics devices in recent years – but the reality has often fallen sh...

By Mark Patrick | 28-07-2017

Would you like to drive a car that controls itself relative to your emotions and moods? Well semiconductor solutions specialists Renesas says it has created a development kit which enables cars to read the driver's emotions and then take control of the car ba...

By Paul Whytock | 25-07-2017