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Smart Sensors and IO Link delivers Industry 4.0
Making Sense of Industry 4.0 – Advice from the Front Line EVERYBODY’s talking about Industry 4.0 but how many of us are clear about what it means on a practic...
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The Latest Topping For Your Raspberry Pi
Fancy bringing Alexa to life on your Raspberry Pi 3? The new pi-top Pulse makes bringing music, light effects and Alexa services to your pi-top, pi-top CEED or stand-alone Raspb...
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Start Enabling Machine Vision: For When The Machines Rise Up Against Us
For those of us who have been around a while, our first conscious introduction to the concept of machine vision was probably in the original Terminator movie when we were treate...
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IIoT breathes life into obsolete assets at Ne...
Remember Calum Finn, recent winner of an EW BrightSparks Design Engineer of Tomorrow award? We promised to catch up with Calum and find out about his winning mechatronics projec...
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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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davecole6 hours ago
@Pentode This article is about DesignSpark Mechanical...
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I tried design Spark a couple of times and I found it too cumbersome and tying so much so I have removed it and reverted back to Labcenter Proteus.
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Bill Marshall1 week ago
@slyworme Quite right. Long before 'Artificial Intelligence' there existed 'Malevolent Intelligence' in all prototype hardware (and software).... :-)
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FanManDan
July 27, 2017 11:51
Quiet Powerful Efficiency from ebm-papst - the new 4300N Series Compact Axial Fan
In keeping with ebm-papst GreenTech philosophy, every new product shall be economically and ecologically superior to its predecessor; ebm-papst have enhanced and expanded the range of its popular Multi-fan compact axial fan series: 4300N
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BenjaminG
July 27, 2017 08:50
Work experience at RS: thoughts and summary
The first thing that I did upon arriving at RS Components was have a tour of the office.
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be_RnD
July 27, 2017 08:22
Design your own HMI using the RX71M Revelation Kit GAPI Journey Document for free
The Revelation Kit is an ideal platform to design your GUI (Graphical User Interface). But if you have never designed a GUI yet, you may find challenges on the way. The GAPI Journey document guides you in a step by step manner to your own GUI design.
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Ten22
July 27, 2017 07:51
6 of the Best PCB Reference Designs
We have a terrific collection of DesignSpark PCB reference designs for you to download and modify to your heart's content.
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Ten22
July 27, 2017 07:48
Exoskeletons, making light of it
The use of exoskeletons is growing, from helping people carry a heavy load to easing the muscular stress of repetitive tasks. We take a look at some of the designs and companies out there.
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awong
July 27, 2017 07:46
Getting Started with Xilinx Zynq, All Programmable System-On-Chip (SoC)
First experience to use Xilinx Vivado IP and SDK to build the project on Xilinx Zynq which integrates a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with Xilinx field programmable gate array (FPGA). Implement the design on Digilent ZYBO, a Zynq FPGA board,
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July 26, 2017 14:41
Blog 2: Developing Poddy McPodface - Hyperloop prototype for SpaceX competition
This article speaks about HypED Team and their effort to develop the first British Hyperloop prototype. The team will be heading to California later in August to test the prototype at SpaceX Hyperloop track.
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Si992
July 26, 2017 14:01
6 things you might have missed in July
A mixture of holidays and conferences mean it's even more likely you missed some of the exciting things going on in the world of technology. Check out this post for the latest technology you dont want to miss.
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mbeach
July 25, 2017 10:32
Is Your Arduino Fast Enough For Your Neopixel Or Dotstar Application?
Neopixels and Dotstars from Adafruit are popular addressable LED arrays and chains. The serial protocols used are at the limit of what basic Arduinos can manage. The ShieldBuddy with its 3 200MHz CPUs can drive multiple arrays genuinely in parallel.
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Adrian Gurr
July 25, 2017 10:02
Software & Maintenance Engineers! - upgrade to Segger Flash Super Heroes
With just a couple of cables, and the latest Flasher Portable PLUS, the intrepid engineering hero can upgrade or repair software on the vast majority of the Worlds microcontrollers
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Boss
July 25, 2017 08:49
Cornwall and the Digital Revolution: The Software Story
Cornwall is enjoying a Digital boom. West Cornwall is the second fastest growing digital hub in the country. Belinda Waldock will launch a series of talks with an overview of the Cornish Software sector.
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Redstone
July 25, 2017 08:44
Alexa And Pi, Please.
So you have a Pi-Top and want to get Alexa up and running? Or maybe you already have a Raspberry Pi 3 and you want to get Alexa on that instead? If you have a pi-topPULSE it is a pretty simple task to get Alexa. This article shows you how.
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