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Facebook’s Aquila Drone Completes First Flight—And Faces Criticisms
On June 28th, the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona witnessed the maiden flight of the Facebook’s full-scale drone, Aquila. Facebook plans to incorporate a fleet of these wing-shaped drones to provide...
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Designing a Charge-Pump Bipolar Power Supply
This article presents and discusses a schematic design for a ±5 V inductorless power supply.I recently wrote an article on charge-pump DC/DC converters, i.e., DC/DC converters that create output...
View ArticleIntel RealSense Camera R200 | Featured Product Spotlight
This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.RealSense Camera R200Intel’s RealSense Camera R200 is a...
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Crash Landing on Venus to Proposing the World Wide Web: The March 2018...
Venera 3 crash lands on Venus, the Homebrew Computer Club meets for the first time, and the World Wide Web is proposed. Check out this hardware history roundup for March!1966: The First Human-Made...
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A History of Touchscreens (and What’s Coming Next)
Back in 1994, when Friends dominated television and Ace of Base was the top musical group on the radio, IBM unveiled the Simon, a mobile phone with all the delicate aesthetics of a brick.But the Simon...
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Synaptics Solves Fingerprint Authentication Security
Synaptics's Match-in-Sensor™ technology keeps fingerprint data within hardware, protecting image data from security threats.With last year's launch of the iPhone 6 came the simultaneous reveal of Apple...
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Cybersecurity Workforce Will Be Drastically Inadequate by 2022
A shortage of skilled workers threatens to undermine cybersecurity in an increasingly connected society.In 2015, business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan forecast a worker shortage of 1.5 million...
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Meet the Fleet of AUVs That Might Eventually Explore “Oceans” on Other Planets
So you've heard of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). But have you heard of AUVs? Autonomous underwater vehicles are one of the most promising paths forward for exploring our oceans and those on other...
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Two New SPI Analog Mux Switches from Analog Devices
Analog Devices recently announced two new SPI-controlled analog mux switches: the ADGS1208 and the ADGS1209.The ADGS1208 and ADGS1209 are two new analog mux SPI switches recently released by Analog...
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How to Design Schmitt Trigger Oscillators
This article discusses the good and the bad regarding Schmitt Trigger RC oscillators. These oscillators are especially important because they are present in the internal oscillator in many popular...
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Making Safer Implantable Medical Sensors: The Benefits and Challenges of...
Implanted sensors are crucial for monitoring patient health, but they come with their own secondary problems such as risk of infection and damage to tissue. But imagine a sensor that did not need to be...
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The E-Waste Disaster
Think e-waste is a foreign problem? Guess again.More for LessThe number of electronic goods and electronic users continues to climb every year. The new U.S. Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)...
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The Latest in Medical Tech for Diabetes Care: A Non-Invasive Glucose Sensor
Researchers believe that sweaty armpits may be the answer to both detecting and controlling diabetes. Medical technology has really advanced in the past few decades with open heart surgery, implanted...
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The First Telegraph Message to the IBM 704: The May 2018 Hardware History...
1844: Samuel Morse Sends First Electrical Telegraph Message in USAOn May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first electric telegraph message in the USA: “What hath God wrought”. The message traveled from...
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A Replacement to LM75/TMP75 Digital Temperature Sensors: The Texas...
Texas Instruments announces their new TMP1075, which is a replacement to the industry standard LM75 and TMP75 digital temperature sensors.Texas Instruments'TMP1075 is a digital temperature sensor that...
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A Modern Day Icarus: The Parker Solar Probe’s Mission to the Sun
What do IMAX movie theatre bulbs have in common with the surface of the Sun? NASA's Parker Space Probe will put human hardware the closest to the Sun that it's ever been, putting engineers against the...
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The Rise of Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) Sensors in Wearables
Maxim develops a wearable platform for better measurement of static activities such as yoga using GSR sensors.The wearable Galvanic Skin Response skin system, MAXREFDES73#, is a wearable system...
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Power Supply with Excellent Insulation for Medium-Voltage Systems
Power semiconductors with high reverse voltages and extensive current carrying capacity are indispensable for expanding an intelligent, locally supplied energy network. However, to operate these...
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New LDX-B20 DIN Rail Mounted Buffer Module Announced
Bel Power Solutions announces the new LDX-B20, a microprocessor-controlled buffer unit rated at 20A and usable in 12, 24, 48 and 72 V systems. It monitors output voltage from a DC power supply and, in...
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The weirdest things we learned this week: smoke enemas, sneaky sound design,...
The bellows could be adapted to inflate the lungs with fresh air or to introduce more stimulating vapors such as tobacco in an attempt to revive the patient. The set includes a small ivory syringe...
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