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Questions to Pete Lomas - Hardware Designer @RaspberryPi

SaraE — Thu, 22 May 2014 10:07:26 +0000

It is a great pleasure to pose our questions to Pete Lomas, hardware designer of the famous Raspberry Pi. His answers could help us to understand his vision of embedded, his projects and his work.
We have the possibility to know him in anticipation of his partecipation to Better Embedded 2014, the most important congress about the Open Source in Italy.

LPC812 MiniKit, Easy Programming, Android Peripheral, Embeddable, mBed Powered

allankliu — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 02:15:11 +0000

LPC812 MiniKit is a mini development board for NXP Cortex-M0+ microcontroller. It was designed for hobbyists as well as engineers. As a result, the simpler, the better.

Infineon AUDO MAX SHE: life hard for the tuning?

Slovati — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:30:28 +0000

Infineon Technologies has recently expanded its family of 32-bit microcontrollers for automotive applications with a anti-tamper hardware security system. The stated goal is to increase the level of safety and reliability of electronic control devices, making it harder to steal and recycling of cars and changing the parameters of the units themselves.

Is it possible to simulate the operation of the human brain?

Slovati — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:20:57 +0000

A team of researchers at Manchester University is working on a project that has set itself the ambitious goal of simulating the operation of the human brain through massive architecture of ARM processors. Will they succeed in this aim?

OpenduinoGSM an open source tool Arduino IDE compatible with Opengate project inside

Emanuele — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:00:39 +0000

OpenduinoGSM is an open source tool for hobbyists & professional makers. The first project realized is the useful opengate (one ring with your phone and the gate is open). Inspired with OpenduinoGSM!

SiLabs energy harvesting wireless sensor solution

Slovati — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:00:51 +0000

Silicon Laboratories Inc. (SiLabs) has recently introduced a wireless sensor solution very efficient from an energy point of view, powered by a solar energy harvesting source.

Mygeopin simplifies geolocalization like short-url did for urls [FREE App to download]

Emanuele — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:30:20 +0000

If you need to locate a precise position today it means having to key-into your navigational device longitude and latitude -29.9643784926565, -90.0680637359619, which to the most of us doesn’t mean anything.
With Mygeopin it becomes a code like US,NEW ORLEANS,EDJH That’s something else, is not it? But why not more personalized than that? Perhaps, US,NEW ORLEANS, SEAFOOD

An Arduino-based quadricopter

Slovati — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:50:43 +0000

Who would not want a remote-controlled quadricopter model, perhaps provided with a HD camera, and amaze your friends with exciting maneuvers and breathtaking shots from above? This dream can be achieved by following Russell instructions, who will teach us how to build an Arduino-based quadricopter.

A new force sensitive material for future touchscreen displays

Slovati — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:30:08 +0000

A British company has developed a force-sensitive material, completely transparent, which is a candidate for possible applications in the field of next generation touchscreens.

Texas Instruments DRV8312-C2-KIT: evaluation kit for low-power brushless motors

Slovati — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:30:09 +0000

Texas Instruments has introduced a new evaluation kit for driving brushless DC and permanent magnet synchronous motors.

Quantum Dot LED Display (QLED)

Slovati — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:15:27 +0000

Significant progress has recently been made in the manufacturing of Quantum Dot LED display (briefly QLED), the displays thst in the future could provide the same quality of LCD displays at a lower cost than current OLED.

The basics of Networking

Slovati — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:52:18 +0000

Are we sure we know all the concepts that underlie networking, at least that related to home applications? We all know what a switch is? And what are its differences compared to a hub? And the router, what will? The networking technology initially may seem complex and mysterious, just reserved for insiders. But it is not.

Cypress EZ-USB FX3: the USB 3.0 controller with an ARM9 core

Slovati — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:30:54 +0000

Cypress Semiconductor has announced its first integrated USB 3.0 controller, the EZ-USB FX3, based on a core built with ARM9 architecture.

The femtocell technology

Slovati — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:28:36 +0000

Femtocell is a promising technology used primarily to enhance the signal quality of mobile devices inside buildings, where coverage is spotty or the signal is weak, or simply when you want a faster and reliable connection.

Disclosed the unpatched vulnerabilities of six commercial SCADA systems

Slovati — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:43:20 +0000

An Italian researcher in the field of computer security, Luigi Auriemma, has disclosed a list of bugs, not yet corrected, regarding six commercial SCADA systems. The control systems adopted by major industrial companies are vulnerable and subject to attacks from hackers?

An oscilloscope from an iPad/iPhone

Slovati — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:15:34 +0000

Oscium, a manufacturer of innovative instrumentation for test and debug, has announced its new product iMSO-104, the first mixed-signal oscilloscope expressly designed for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad.

ESMO: the first european student mission to the Moon

Slovati — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:08:48 +0000

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a project aimed at European universities with the ambitious goal to create a lunar spacecraft entirely designed, built, and operated by students, and to place it in orbit around the Moon.

Great success of Renesas in recovering Naka fab

Slovati — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:22:15 +0000

Renesas Electronics recently announced that the production in its front-end fab at Naka, hardly damaged by the earthquake occurred in Japan last March, will resume earlier than the date originally scheduled.

Google chooses Arduino as a development platform for Android

Slovati — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:50:12 +0000

At the conference Google I/O 2011, held on 10 and 11 May 2011 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Google announced a new development platform for Android based on Arduino.

How PC bootstrap works

Slovati — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:50:38 +0000

In computer science, more specifically in the context of operating systems, the term bootstrap identifies the operatopn after which at least part of the operating system is transferred to memory before being executed by the microprocessor.