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New Mesh Networking Products Expand Use Cases for Connected Devices
Learn how mesh networking, with low power requirements and deployment in difficult environments, may be crucial in IoT and automation.In a classical network setup, the hub is the centralized...
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New Displacement Sensor from Eye Vision Technology Claims Fastest and Highest...
The EyeScan AT 3D Max can scan the smallest details with a measurement resolution of 1 µm.Eye Vision Technology's displacement sensor offers both high scan rates at full measurement range and maximum...
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From Russia With Love: Russian WW2 Guest Tanks At Tankfest 2019
T-34Not one, but two, T-34 tanks, used by Russia during the Second World War will be running in the arena at TANKFEST 2019.The T-34 was the most produced tank of the Second World War, with over 80,000...
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Reenactors in Normandy: A Pleasure or a Pain? Time to Raise Their Game?
Every year, thousands of re-enactors from all over the world descend on Normandy for the first week of June. They fill up campsites and town squares, and they are seen at nearly all of the events and...
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The Cromwell Tank: The Fastest British Tank of the WWII
Cruiser Mk VIII Centaur I (A27L)A bulkhead with access holes separated the hull gunner and the driver from the fighting compartment. The tank Cruiser Mk.VIII “Cromwell” is a British medium cruiser...
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Classified: The New Boeing High-Tech Autonomous Fighter
Photo: BoeingThe BATS plane is primarily intended, in its wingman role, to protect against electronic attacks With every passing year, items of technology once confined to the realm of science fiction...
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How to Wire a Photocell Switch
Photocell switches are typically used on outdoor lighting. This allows the power source for the light to remain on at all times. The photocell switch will then turn the light on at a predetermined...
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Introduction to Reliability in Electronics: Tools and Metrics for...
Every device fails eventually. How can you anticipate when and where issues will occur? This is where reliability engineering comes in.Electronic products will not work forever. Whether the product is...
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Murata Features Low-Power, High Efficiency with New Buck Regulator and...
New Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo module and fully-integrated buck regulator promise small form factors along with high efficiency.At the Applied Power and Electronics Conference (APEC), Murata introduced...
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How to Choose the Right Microcontroller for Your Application
This article continues the Introduction to Microcontrollers series with a discussion of the most important things to consider when you’re trying to find the best MCU for your next project.In a previous...
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UnitedSiC Announces SiC JFET Family for Low Power AC-DC Flyback Converters
These normally-ON devices are especially well-suited for co-packaging with controller ICs and low voltage MOSFETs to form the nucleus of cascode-based 20-100 Watt flyback products.The new silicon...
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Can Penetrate Body Armour at 1900 Feet: US Army to Release Next Generation Rifle
The new weapon have a deadly effect at long ranges, such as when fighting from mountaintop to mountaintop in Afghanistan. Several months ago, the US Army announced that they were in the process of...
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Rambo: Last Blood to Hit Cinemas in Early Fall 2019
Photo: Yoni S.Hamenahem / CC BY-SA 3.0He is hired by missionaries to take them up-river, but somewhere along the way it all goes horribly wrong. Lionsgate has confirmed that the final film in the...
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Flying Dogs: Five of the Worst British Warplanes Ever!
Yeovilton, UK - 11th July 2015: Sea Vixen vintage aircraft flying at Yeovilton Air Day.The planes also suffered nine accidents, which by itself is not substantial, but one must consider that only 49 of...
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Overlooked and Overskilled: Rebel General Hampton
Hampton was able to repulse seven Union cavalry attacks and inflict nearly twice as many casualties as he sustained. Hampton never lost a cavalry battle after that point. Wade Hampton III was born...
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“I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning.” The 5 Best Movies About Nam
“A good dose of a bad ass Sam Elliott never hurts.” Highly politicized as the Vietnam War was, it generated some of the best war films to date with many of them earning critical acclaim. The...
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TDK Claims World’s Smallest Point-of-Load DC-DC Converter
µPOL DC-DC converters in compact size, with highest power density point-of-load, lend themselves to a wide variety of applications like big data, AI, and 5G cells.AAC's Mark Hughes interviewed TDK’s...
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Apple killed AirPower because a dead product is better than a bad one
Apple has "high standards" and couldn't get this wireless charging pad to meet them. Rest in Power little buddy. AppleApple’s AirPower wireless charging mat will go down in history as a punchline more...
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Using a drone to film the Daytona 500 for live TV is just as complicated as...
Fox had a free-flying drone filming one of NASCAR's biggest races for the first time ever. The DJI Inspire 2 flew above this year's Daytona 500 venue. Fox Sports/HeliVideoA couple weeks ago, the Nascar...
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