🛸 Jetson One - revolutionary personal electric aerial vehicle
Jetson is a Swedish company with a mission to change the way we travel
Jetson ONE is an ultralight and extremely fun to fly recreational all-electric personal vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The aircraft is made of aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors. It has an empty weight of 40 kg and has a flight time (85 kg) of 20 minutes.
More information:
Official Website
Official Launch video
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Jetson is a Swedish company with a mission to change the way we travel
Jetson ONE is an ultralight and extremely fun to fly recreational all-electric personal vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The aircraft is made of aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors. It has an empty weight of 40 kg and has a flight time (85 kg) of 20 minutes.
More information:
Official Website
Official Launch video
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📰 Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is out!
Priced at $15, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W uses the same Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC die as the launch version of Raspberry Pi 3, with Arm cores slightly down-clocked to 1GHz, bundled into a single space-saving package alongside 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM.
The exact performance uplift over Zero varies across workloads, but for multi-threaded sysbench it is almost exactly five times faster.
Specifications:
▫️ Broadcom BCM2710A1, quad-core 64-bit SoC
▫️ 512MB LPDDR2 SDRAM
▫️ 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2, BLE
▫️ HAT-compatible 40 pin I/O header footprint
▫️ MicroSD card slot
▫️ Mini HDMI port
▫️ CSI-2 camera connector
More information...
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Priced at $15, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W uses the same Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC die as the launch version of Raspberry Pi 3, with Arm cores slightly down-clocked to 1GHz, bundled into a single space-saving package alongside 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM.
The exact performance uplift over Zero varies across workloads, but for multi-threaded sysbench it is almost exactly five times faster.
Specifications:
▫️ Broadcom BCM2710A1, quad-core 64-bit SoC
▫️ 512MB LPDDR2 SDRAM
▫️ 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2, BLE
▫️ HAT-compatible 40 pin I/O header footprint
▫️ MicroSD card slot
▫️ Mini HDMI port
▫️ CSI-2 camera connector
More information...
#news #raspberry
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📊 Did COVID-19 Damage the Mobile Robot Market?
According to a report from Interact Analysis, revenues from mobile robot sales and shipments grew significantly in 2020 compared to 2019. This was despite delays in commissioning and the postponing of projects as a result of the pandemic.
Looking further ahead, robust and exponential growth is forecast, even when you take into account a lowering in Interact Analysis’ short-term projections. Mor than 2 million mobile robots are due to ship by the end of 2025.
Here are some of the results of the research:
▫️ Nearly 60,000 mobile robots shipped in 2020 – an increase of over 25% on 2019.
▫️ Revenues to reach $18 billion by 2025, despite a lowered short-term forecast.
The research shows that, by the end of 2025, nearly 2.1 million mobile robots will have been shipped – with almost 860,000 of these accounted for in 2025 alone. Revenues will hit $18 billion.
#articles #robots
According to a report from Interact Analysis, revenues from mobile robot sales and shipments grew significantly in 2020 compared to 2019. This was despite delays in commissioning and the postponing of projects as a result of the pandemic.
Looking further ahead, robust and exponential growth is forecast, even when you take into account a lowering in Interact Analysis’ short-term projections. Mor than 2 million mobile robots are due to ship by the end of 2025.
Here are some of the results of the research:
▫️ Nearly 60,000 mobile robots shipped in 2020 – an increase of over 25% on 2019.
▫️ Revenues to reach $18 billion by 2025, despite a lowered short-term forecast.
The research shows that, by the end of 2025, nearly 2.1 million mobile robots will have been shipped – with almost 860,000 of these accounted for in 2025 alone. Revenues will hit $18 billion.
#articles #robots
📟 Watchy CO₂ Sensor Watch
Open-source watch/wearable CO₂ sensor for COVID safety
The relationship of CO₂ sensing to COVID safety can be found at a number of places. Briefly CO₂ levels measure the amount of human breath in your vicinity, which is a reasonable proxy for the number of particles of an infectious airborne pathogen potentially in your vicinity.
There are some caveats, mostly related to indoor air filtration systems which can potentially remove (very small) virus particles but not (much smaller) CO₂ molecules, but it's still a reasonably interesting parameter to monitor when you're in a new or unusual setting.
The project is based on the Watchy (ESP32-powered open-source E-Paper Watch).
More information...
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Open-source watch/wearable CO₂ sensor for COVID safety
The relationship of CO₂ sensing to COVID safety can be found at a number of places. Briefly CO₂ levels measure the amount of human breath in your vicinity, which is a reasonable proxy for the number of particles of an infectious airborne pathogen potentially in your vicinity.
There are some caveats, mostly related to indoor air filtration systems which can potentially remove (very small) virus particles but not (much smaller) CO₂ molecules, but it's still a reasonably interesting parameter to monitor when you're in a new or unusual setting.
The project is based on the Watchy (ESP32-powered open-source E-Paper Watch).
More information...
#projects #esp32
🖐🏻 Tactile Sensing Gets a Boost for AI Systems Thanks to Open-source Research
The new announcement from Meta this week was ReSkin, a new open-source tactile sensing "skin" solution. ReSkin is a deformable elastomer designed with embedded magnetic particles.
According to the publication, when this material deforms, it causes a change in its magnetic field, which is perceptible by nearby magnetometers. The system then uses AI-based techniques to interpret this data into relevant information such as contact location and applied force.
All together, ReSkin comes out to be 2-3 mm thick, has a lifetime of over 50,000 interactions, has a temporal resolution of up to 400 Hz, and has a spatial resolution of 1 mm with 90% accuracy.
ReSkin offers several unique value propositions. First off, unlike other skin-based sensors, ReSkin is generalizable thanks to a novel self-supervised learning algorithm that allows the sensors to auto-calibrate without manual intervention.
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The new announcement from Meta this week was ReSkin, a new open-source tactile sensing "skin" solution. ReSkin is a deformable elastomer designed with embedded magnetic particles.
According to the publication, when this material deforms, it causes a change in its magnetic field, which is perceptible by nearby magnetometers. The system then uses AI-based techniques to interpret this data into relevant information such as contact location and applied force.
All together, ReSkin comes out to be 2-3 mm thick, has a lifetime of over 50,000 interactions, has a temporal resolution of up to 400 Hz, and has a spatial resolution of 1 mm with 90% accuracy.
ReSkin offers several unique value propositions. First off, unlike other skin-based sensors, ReSkin is generalizable thanks to a novel self-supervised learning algorithm that allows the sensors to auto-calibrate without manual intervention.
#articles #sensors #news
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🎚 Raspberry PI Zero 2W: What does the silicon contain?
Author of the article used special tools and chemicals for having a closer look at how new Raspberry board is built.
It's not just a single integrated circuit, but rather 3 pieces of silicon and a bunch of gold wires which tied everything together. Looks like developers have moved away from Package-on-package and have gone for the even more sophisticated multi-chip packaging.
In this technique they take the substrate (basically a circuit board with super fine traces), then they put down the DRAM, a spacer... which is simply a bit of un-etched silicon, and then the SOC. It's all connected together with gold bond wires and encapsulated in epxoy.
Advantages of this is cost, the package is often as expensive as the silicon it contains. They have gone down from two packages used on the "Pi zero" where they stacked the DRAM on top of the SOC to one.
#articles #boards
Author of the article used special tools and chemicals for having a closer look at how new Raspberry board is built.
It's not just a single integrated circuit, but rather 3 pieces of silicon and a bunch of gold wires which tied everything together. Looks like developers have moved away from Package-on-package and have gone for the even more sophisticated multi-chip packaging.
In this technique they take the substrate (basically a circuit board with super fine traces), then they put down the DRAM, a spacer... which is simply a bit of un-etched silicon, and then the SOC. It's all connected together with gold bond wires and encapsulated in epxoy.
Advantages of this is cost, the package is often as expensive as the silicon it contains. They have gone down from two packages used on the "Pi zero" where they stacked the DRAM on top of the SOC to one.
#articles #boards
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