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Which future for Intel MeeGo?
div class="content_teaser"> Intel MeeGo, the operating system for mobile and portable devices based on Linux born from an agreement between Intel and Nokia, has suffered a blow following the...
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A microscope from a cellular phone
A group of researchers has developed a simple, lightweight, compact, and inexpensive microscope with a standard mobile phone, opening the door for applications in the field of basic medical diagnosis....
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LTC2871 - RS232/RS485 Multiprotocol Transceivers with Integrated Termination
Linear Technology has recently introduced the LTC2870 and LTC2871 multiprotocol transceivers, both provided with integrated and switchable line termination designed for devices with a supply voltage...
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Energy Harvesting - electricity from shock absorbers
Energy Harvesting, or how to recover part of the energy from the environment, which would otherwise be lost and convert it into another usable form of energy, like electricity. We will see in this...
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Open Source Wireless Internet of Things
openPICUS is an open source wireless platform that uses Wi-Fi and freeRTOS to connect things to the web. The guys from openPicus released some new features for their FlyPort Wi-Fi module: read more
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2-Ch DIP-size scope for all budgets
The oscilloscope is certainly one of the laboratory equipment most coveted by fans of electronics, especially when they are young (and therefore, often, with a limited budget). The world of...
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The best free IDEs
IDE is a tool that greatly facilitates the development activities of any software application, often integrated with other tools like compiler and debugger. Let us see an overview of IDEs which can be...
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Citiled: 22W, 1000 lumen LED lighting module with AC drive circuit
A Japanese company, a leading manufacturer of LED lighting modules, has developed a LED module directly driven from the AC mains, with a brightness of 1000 lumens and a power of 22W read more
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Wireless EV charging station? Siemens and BMW believe in it
Siemens and BMW have jointly implemented a system which recharges the batteries on electric cars in a wireless way (no wires or cables are required) read more
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An hybrid-air engine on the next cars?
In a period of ever and ever rising energy costs and increased attention and sensitivity to various forms of alternative or renewable energy, we assist to a concrete interest shown by car manufacturers...
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TI SM320F28335-HT: the Digital Signal Controller for high temperature
Texas Instruments has launched a microcontroller with floating point arithmetic features that can operate in extreme temperature conditions (from -55°C to +210°C), the first able to overcome the...
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How PC bootstrap works
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...
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Google chooses Arduino as a development platform for Android
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. read more
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Great success of Renesas in recovering Naka fab
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...
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ESMO: the first european student mission to the Moon
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...
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An oscilloscope from an iPad/iPhone
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....
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Disclosed the unpatched vulnerabilities of six commercial SCADA systems
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...
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The femtocell technology
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...
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Cypress EZ-USB FX3: the USB 3.0 controller with an ARM9 core
Cypress Semiconductor has announced its first integrated USB 3.0 controller, the EZ-USB FX3, based on a core built with ARM9 architecture. read more
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The basics of Networking
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,...
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