🔫 e-Shotgun - First commercial railgun
A very interesting start-up developing a non-lethal weapon of the future
A railgun is a linear motor device, typically designed as a weapon, that uses electromagnetic force to launch high velocity projectiles. During the research and development, the following characteristics were summarized:
▫️ Non-lethal attacks, more efficient near defense and data Internet.
▫️ No light, no sound, no smoke, no shell, and slight recoil during use.
▫️ The cost of consumables is low, and the equipment does not need maintenance.
▫️ Exceeds the shooting speed that guns can not reach.
The future versions of the weapon are supposed to have IoT functionalities, fingerprints identity recognition, big data statistics and analysis.
More information...
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A very interesting start-up developing a non-lethal weapon of the future
A railgun is a linear motor device, typically designed as a weapon, that uses electromagnetic force to launch high velocity projectiles. During the research and development, the following characteristics were summarized:
▫️ Non-lethal attacks, more efficient near defense and data Internet.
▫️ No light, no sound, no smoke, no shell, and slight recoil during use.
▫️ The cost of consumables is low, and the equipment does not need maintenance.
▫️ Exceeds the shooting speed that guns can not reach.
The future versions of the weapon are supposed to have IoT functionalities, fingerprints identity recognition, big data statistics and analysis.
More information...
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📰 IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough That Defies Conventional Design
The new vertical transistor breakthrough could help the semiconductor industry continue its relentless journey to deliver significant improvements, including:
▫️ Potential device architecture that enables semiconductor device scaling to continue beyond nanosheet.
▫️ Cell phone batteries that could go over a week without being charged, instead of days.
▫️ Energy intensive processes, such as cryptomining operations and data encryption, could require significantly less energy and have a smaller carbon footprint.
▫️ Continued expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) and edge devices with lower energy needs, allowing them to operate in more diverse environments like ocean buoys, autonomous vehicles, and spacecraft.
The VTFET process addresses many barriers to performance and limitations to extend Moore's Law as chip designers attempt to pack more transistors into a fixed space.
#news #electronics
The new vertical transistor breakthrough could help the semiconductor industry continue its relentless journey to deliver significant improvements, including:
▫️ Potential device architecture that enables semiconductor device scaling to continue beyond nanosheet.
▫️ Cell phone batteries that could go over a week without being charged, instead of days.
▫️ Energy intensive processes, such as cryptomining operations and data encryption, could require significantly less energy and have a smaller carbon footprint.
▫️ Continued expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) and edge devices with lower energy needs, allowing them to operate in more diverse environments like ocean buoys, autonomous vehicles, and spacecraft.
The VTFET process addresses many barriers to performance and limitations to extend Moore's Law as chip designers attempt to pack more transistors into a fixed space.
#news #electronics
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🧠 Popular ML algorithms (MATLAB, Octave, Python)
A perfect compilation of code examples of the most popular ML algorithms for understanding its work.
The purpose of these repositories was not to implement machine learning algorithms using 3rd party libraries "one-liners" but rather to practice and to better understand the mathematics behind each algorithm.
More information:
Python Repository
MATLAB/Octave Repository
#machine_learning #artificial_intelligence #matlab #python
A perfect compilation of code examples of the most popular ML algorithms for understanding its work.
The purpose of these repositories was not to implement machine learning algorithms using 3rd party libraries "one-liners" but rather to practice and to better understand the mathematics behind each algorithm.
More information:
Python Repository
MATLAB/Octave Repository
#machine_learning #artificial_intelligence #matlab #python
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🎬 Creating IoT Devices That Will Remain Secure
What is secure today may not be secure in the future, and even if you include an IoT device with state-of-the-art security, it may be surrounded by less secure devices.
Steve Hanna, distinguished engineer at Infineon, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about the impact of security on IoT adoption, why resilience across a system is the new target for secure designs, and how to minimize the impact of less secure devices.
https://youtu.be/OI8W9EIWHZI
#video #podcasts #IoT #security
What is secure today may not be secure in the future, and even if you include an IoT device with state-of-the-art security, it may be surrounded by less secure devices.
Steve Hanna, distinguished engineer at Infineon, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about the impact of security on IoT adoption, why resilience across a system is the new target for secure designs, and how to minimize the impact of less secure devices.
https://youtu.be/OI8W9EIWHZI
#video #podcasts #IoT #security
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Creating IoT Devices That Will Remain Secure
What’s secure today may not be secure in the future, and even if you include an IoT device with state-of-the-art security, it may be surrounded by less secure devices. Steve Hanna, distinguished engineer at Infineon, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about…
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📰 NOVELDA UWB X4 sensor can detect submillimeter movements
NOVELDA has just announced the UWB X4/X4F103 sensor and development kit that can detect submillimeter micro-movements such as breathing for human presence detection and does so at a really low power consumption of under 2mW.
NOVELDA UWB X4 (X4F103) highlights:
▫️ High-precision ranging for accurate distance measurement and absolute range bounding based on patented impulse radar technology.
▫️ Low power consumption below 2mW, and no co-existence issues with other sensors.
▫️ Wide detection zone for accurate detection with up to 180-degree field of view.
▫️ Up to 5m range.
▫️ Works through plastic and glass or layers of clothing.
The UWB X4 sensor will mostly be used in smart home and building automation notably for touchless-screen displays, lighting and HVAC control, and wireless health monitors.
#news #sensors
NOVELDA has just announced the UWB X4/X4F103 sensor and development kit that can detect submillimeter micro-movements such as breathing for human presence detection and does so at a really low power consumption of under 2mW.
NOVELDA UWB X4 (X4F103) highlights:
▫️ High-precision ranging for accurate distance measurement and absolute range bounding based on patented impulse radar technology.
▫️ Low power consumption below 2mW, and no co-existence issues with other sensors.
▫️ Wide detection zone for accurate detection with up to 180-degree field of view.
▫️ Up to 5m range.
▫️ Works through plastic and glass or layers of clothing.
The UWB X4 sensor will mostly be used in smart home and building automation notably for touchless-screen displays, lighting and HVAC control, and wireless health monitors.
#news #sensors
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📊 The 10 most adopted IoT Use Cases
Six of the top 10 IoT use cases today (ranked by adoption) aim at making operations smart, thus improving companies’ production processes for manufacturing, enhancing maintenance operations, or advancing any other operations (e.g., energy generation in the case of an energy company, running healthcare operations in the case of a hospital, or running store operations in the case of a retail company).
Three of the top 10 use cases are related to smart supply chains, and only one is related to smart products in the field.
Key points:
▫️Adoption of various IoT use cases is on the rise.
▫️ Of the 200+ companies from various industries interviewed, the average company has adopted eight different IoT use cases to date.
▫️ IoT use cases related to the smart operations of a company are the most adopted, followed by smart supply chain use cases and use cases involving connected IoT products.
▫️ Read-only remote asset monitoring is the most widely adopted use case.
#articles #IoT
Six of the top 10 IoT use cases today (ranked by adoption) aim at making operations smart, thus improving companies’ production processes for manufacturing, enhancing maintenance operations, or advancing any other operations (e.g., energy generation in the case of an energy company, running healthcare operations in the case of a hospital, or running store operations in the case of a retail company).
Three of the top 10 use cases are related to smart supply chains, and only one is related to smart products in the field.
Key points:
▫️Adoption of various IoT use cases is on the rise.
▫️ Of the 200+ companies from various industries interviewed, the average company has adopted eight different IoT use cases to date.
▫️ IoT use cases related to the smart operations of a company are the most adopted, followed by smart supply chain use cases and use cases involving connected IoT products.
▫️ Read-only remote asset monitoring is the most widely adopted use case.
#articles #IoT
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🤖 A Two Wheel Gimbal Motor Powered Robot
This robot moves by turning its wheels against a pendulum weight and controlling its speed using feedback from a tilt sensor.
The robot is controlled by an ATMEGA2560 using an Arduino Mega electronics board with a hand-built motor driver board stacked on top. An XBee radio transceiver communicates with another XBee mounted on a remote joystick to provide steering. A 3 cell 1500MAh Li-Po battery powers everything.
A Pololu "MinIMU-9 V2" gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer package is used to sense the robot's orientation. The measured gyro rates are integrated to yield a tilt angle, which is then drift-corrected using the accelerometers.
A feedback loop then drives the motors fore and aft, working against the pendulum in an attempt to neutralize the measured tilt angle. Adding an offset to that angle using the joystick causes the motors to "chase" the tilt angle, driving the robot along the desired path.
More information...
#projects #robots #arduino
This robot moves by turning its wheels against a pendulum weight and controlling its speed using feedback from a tilt sensor.
The robot is controlled by an ATMEGA2560 using an Arduino Mega electronics board with a hand-built motor driver board stacked on top. An XBee radio transceiver communicates with another XBee mounted on a remote joystick to provide steering. A 3 cell 1500MAh Li-Po battery powers everything.
A Pololu "MinIMU-9 V2" gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer package is used to sense the robot's orientation. The measured gyro rates are integrated to yield a tilt angle, which is then drift-corrected using the accelerometers.
A feedback loop then drives the motors fore and aft, working against the pendulum in an attempt to neutralize the measured tilt angle. Adding an offset to that angle using the joystick causes the motors to "chase" the tilt angle, driving the robot along the desired path.
More information...
#projects #robots #arduino
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💻 How to Select the Best PCB Design Software for Your Project
This article will help you to understand what features you can expect from an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool.
▫️ Allegro Design Authoring (HDL) has two major benefits: it allows for managing PCB physical constraints in the schematic editor, which is very helpful for communicating complex constraint information. For PCB layout, Allegro is a very capable PCB editor overall. It’s worth noting that some advanced features in Allegro require an additional license.
▫️ Altium is another popular tool, which has schematic capture and layout capabilities in one tool. This EDA tool also allows for SPICE simulation, and includes an Electro-Magnetics solver for accurate impedance and propagation delay calculations during PCB layout.
▫️ KiCad comes with a standard component library, and supports many advanced schematic and layout techniques. It does lack some important features, especially for complex designs.
#articles #electronics #design
This article will help you to understand what features you can expect from an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool.
▫️ Allegro Design Authoring (HDL) has two major benefits: it allows for managing PCB physical constraints in the schematic editor, which is very helpful for communicating complex constraint information. For PCB layout, Allegro is a very capable PCB editor overall. It’s worth noting that some advanced features in Allegro require an additional license.
▫️ Altium is another popular tool, which has schematic capture and layout capabilities in one tool. This EDA tool also allows for SPICE simulation, and includes an Electro-Magnetics solver for accurate impedance and propagation delay calculations during PCB layout.
▫️ KiCad comes with a standard component library, and supports many advanced schematic and layout techniques. It does lack some important features, especially for complex designs.
#articles #electronics #design
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📃 5 Embedded Technologies to Master in 2022
Article describes different technologies in the embedded systems industry and provides suggestions on the technologies that developers and teams should investigate and try to start mastering.
▫️ Embedded DevOps: First, learn how to use Docker to set up an embedded toolchain. Next, automate your build processes using a CI/CD server. Finally, as time allows, continue to improve your CI/CD process by adding code analytics, unit testing, integration testing, and so forth.
▫️ Automated Hardware-In-Loop Testing: Over time, manual testing will be removed and replaced it with automated tests that will save everyone time, stress, and your company money.
▫️ Multicore Microcontroller Development: Over the next few years the use of multicore microcontrollers is going to skyrocket because of the fact that many applications need isolation run-time environments. Additionally, the cost for multicore microcontrollers is dramatically coming down.
#articles #design
Article describes different technologies in the embedded systems industry and provides suggestions on the technologies that developers and teams should investigate and try to start mastering.
▫️ Embedded DevOps: First, learn how to use Docker to set up an embedded toolchain. Next, automate your build processes using a CI/CD server. Finally, as time allows, continue to improve your CI/CD process by adding code analytics, unit testing, integration testing, and so forth.
▫️ Automated Hardware-In-Loop Testing: Over time, manual testing will be removed and replaced it with automated tests that will save everyone time, stress, and your company money.
▫️ Multicore Microcontroller Development: Over the next few years the use of multicore microcontrollers is going to skyrocket because of the fact that many applications need isolation run-time environments. Additionally, the cost for multicore microcontrollers is dramatically coming down.
#articles #design
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📰 Taiwan's New Solar Panel 'Sun Rock' Will Deliver 1 Million kWh Per Year
A high-profile Dutch firm has launched an urban sustainability project of epic proportions.
Called the Sun Rock project, MVRDV has announced plans to build a building almost totally smothered in solar panels, capable of generating roughly 1 million kWh of green energy, every year, according to a new page on the company's official website.
Crucially, if it works, it could even pump excess energy back into the city grid, raising the question of whether entire neighborhoods of functional and residential buildings could also serve as power sources in the world of tomorrow. It's slated to be up and running by 2024.
#news #energy
A high-profile Dutch firm has launched an urban sustainability project of epic proportions.
Called the Sun Rock project, MVRDV has announced plans to build a building almost totally smothered in solar panels, capable of generating roughly 1 million kWh of green energy, every year, according to a new page on the company's official website.
Crucially, if it works, it could even pump excess energy back into the city grid, raising the question of whether entire neighborhoods of functional and residential buildings could also serve as power sources in the world of tomorrow. It's slated to be up and running by 2024.
#news #energy
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📘 A Summary of Electronics
This text is a summary of electronics written for hobbyists or people with little technical knowledge. However, it is a rigorous summary of the electronics, so that a global but useful overview can be obtained.
In addition, a summary of the electronics of this style also serves to review concepts to professionals or engineers who might have forgotten basic notions. Below is the index with direct links to the different sections.
More information...
#beginner #electronics
This text is a summary of electronics written for hobbyists or people with little technical knowledge. However, it is a rigorous summary of the electronics, so that a global but useful overview can be obtained.
In addition, a summary of the electronics of this style also serves to review concepts to professionals or engineers who might have forgotten basic notions. Below is the index with direct links to the different sections.
More information...
#beginner #electronics
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