A laser system that presently catches speeding motorists looks set to become a critical design element in making autonomous cars safe. LiDAR (Light detection and Ranging) refers to systems that use laser light emitted in very fast pulses, some at up to 150,...

By Paul Whytock | 02-02-2018

The Texas Instruments store is making it simple for customers to access the parts required for their designs. With a combination of selected LaunchPad MCU development kits and BoosterPack plug-in modules, customers have the opportunity to make great savings wi...

By Nigel Seymour | 25-01-2018

Global data communications is running into a big problem. As modern living and ever-expanding commercialism puts immense pressures on data communication capacity and speed, so existing technologies are rapidly falling short of what the future needs. The que...

By Paul Whytock | 24-01-2018

As far as consumers and their smart phone go, wireless charging sounds a great idea. And if it was a reality it would be. Let’s face it, relative to much of our technology-driven lives, wireless is the way to go. But getting back to those smart phones I sti...

By Paul Whytock | 18-01-2018

The other week I wrote about what I consider the nightmarish scenario of your car being able to respond and manoeuvre according to your thoughts and emotions. Thankfully, the “BrainMobile” car wont happen for at least another ten years. However, research in...

By Paul Whytock | 10-01-2018

Imagine this. Your car reads a signal from your brain that you are about to turn the steering wheel or hit the brake pedal and it assists you by starting the action more quickly. It’s called Brain-to-Vehicle (B2V) technology and it could become a reality so...

By Paul Whytock | 03-01-2018

This week saw phase one of the Electromaker website go live to the world. The inspiration behind Electromaker is to give hardware enthusiasts a platform to fully document their projects lifecycle and share their creations with other makers from around the glob...

By Nigel Seymour | 21-12-2017

Space. Not so much the final frontier but definitely the next frontier. No surprise then that President Trump has signed off a $20 billion funding package for NASA. The presidential brief is easily spelt out; get the USA back on the moon and from there col...

By Paul Whytock | 19-12-2017

Developing 5nm chip designs has been on the minds of major semiconductors companies for years. Electronics designers have dreamed and schemed about a technology that will undoubtedly offer serious improvements in power efficiency and device performance. In...

By Paul Whytock | 07-12-2017

News this week that car thieves can now stand outside your house and pick up signals from your car keys stored inside your house (all too often near the front door) and then use the signal to get in and drive your car away means many of us have yet another sys...

By Paul Whytock | 29-11-2017

Despite all the known ecological, technical, life span and recyclability shortfalls of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries there is no doubt their use in cars and innumerous consumer products will continue to escalate. Consequently, any technological development th...

By Paul Whytock | 21-11-2017

While automation has been with us since the 1970s, recent progress made in artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning have helped it pick up the pace. In the coming years, more and more jobs will be automated, from the factory floor, to our roadways, a...

By Mark Patrick | 14-11-2017