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Investment crowdfunding with Crowdcube
DesignSpark has partnered with Crowdcube, the UK’s leading investment crowdfunding platform by amount of funding raised. Crowdcube can provide you with a route to raise f...
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Coming soon - The £15,000 DesignSpark water l...
Win up to £15,000 in our design challenge. Based around water detection and leak prevention, this challenge is a first for DesignSpark, stay tuned for more details.
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Hackaday and DesignSpark join forces for UK Unconference
Mark your calendars, the Hackaday Unconference is set to hit British shores for the first time ever on Saturday 16th September 2017, with DesignSpark joining as the exclusive sp...
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The threat to industrial control systems from hackers is real!
Cyber security within the Industrial world is now reacting to the latest attacks as well as the latest NotPetya/Wannacry ransomware news. However, it is still lacking investment...
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Are you looking after your Robot?
When robots breakdown the costs to business can be in the £millions. A well planned preventative maintenance program should help avoid the unexpected.
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@JLRTX
If the laptop has a mains connector with ground a connection, and the user uses an outlet with no ground connection, a current from the mains filter capacitors with an amplitude of half... -
Workshopshed3 hours ago
I have used a variety of tools over the years but have mostly switched over to GIT now, that does seem to be where everyone is going.
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@stevekennedyuk -- That is 100% incorrect. The Power supplies used on laptops are required to be isolated to a minimum of around 1500 Volts in order to meet UL, CE and other specifications. -
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@leonrussell99 Found it available here:
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johndsd
August 21, 2017 12:56
Version control of design files - Tortoise SVN
SVN is open source so its free to use and is a far better method than saving different versions of files with the version (or date) in the filename e.g. myFileV1.c, myFileV2.c etc
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ruthamos
August 19, 2017 18:01
Kids Invent Stuff Make Car Contraption Designed by 9 Year Old
At the beginning of the month we picked 9-year-old Connor’s invention idea to bring to life for our In-Car Entertainment Challenge. We asked kids around the World for their ideas for inventions to make long car journeys more fun.
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awong
August 18, 2017 15:45
Infra-Red (IR) Vision on Digilent Arty Z7-20 Xilinx Zynq 7020 Development Board
Infra-Red is very popular in a range of applications from wildfire detection to defense applications. Adam Taylor makes use of Arty Z7-20 and FLIR Lepton IR camera to create an IR vision application to support future design projects.
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RobDixon
August 18, 2017 15:35
Relay switching solution for electric car battery charging systems
The ability of an electromechanical relay to withstand high voltage spikes between control circuit and load circuit of over 10kV along with inrush current capacity against current spikes
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RobDixon
August 18, 2017 14:46
Panasonics Plug & Play PIR Motion Sensor Solution for Occupancy Detection & Presence Applications
The Panasonic NaPiOn and PaPIR are currently the world’s smallest PIR motion sensors with built in amplifier.
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RobDixon
August 18, 2017 08:56
PaPIR – a new approach to occupancy detection
A basic requirement for building automation originates in the fact that there is a need to identify the presence of people in the controlled areas. The solution to this problem is to use some form of occupancy sensor to detect the presence of people
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Alex_CH
August 18, 2017 07:59
Trying Out Intel RealSense
We tried a sample of Intel RealSense SR300 and R200 devices which use an infrared camera to measure distances from objects. This is combined with a regular camera image to act as a 3D camera.
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Richard Craven
August 17, 2017 10:11
XP Power Selector Guides
XP Power have recently released new marketing documentation making it easier than ever to select from their market leading AC-DC, DC-DC & DC-High Voltage product range.
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karlwoodward
August 17, 2017 09:13
A first look at the Digilent Digital Discovery
We recently got to use the Digilent Digital Discovery, this little device performs the function of both a logic analyser and signal generator in a robust neat little package.
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Andrew Back
August 17, 2017 08:22
Five Things Not to Miss at Wuthering Bytes 2017
With this year’s Wuthering Bytes festival about to get off to a start in a little over 2 weeks time here is a quick list of five things that are not to be missed!
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New Products From RS Components
August 15, 2017 15:40
Li-ion Battery Pack Monitor Evaluation Kit
These Li-ion multi cell battery monitors allow you to accurately monitor, protect and balance rechargeable battery packs. Find out more.
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GreigRS
New Products From RS Components
August 15, 2017 15:40
Get going quickly with the ARIS Internet of Things Development Board
An IoT hardware and software platform using the Renesas Synergy S7 MCU, a 240MHz ARM Cortex-M4. Features BLE 4.1/4.2, Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity, plus motion detection with an accelerometer, two-axis gyroscope, temperature and humidity sensors.
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