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Suitable for indoor and harsh environments as well as more unusual designs for indoor displays, the FLR-0959MLV0PCFA1  is a series of round displays by FutureLabs which are now available from Relec Electronics. The 9.5-inch TFT and PCAP (projected capacitive) displays have an active display area of 240mm. Resolution is 1540 x 1540 with 1000 CD/M2 brightness. They can be used in ...

Digi-Key has announced a global distribution partnership with ArkX Laboratories to offer its Advanced Far-field Voice Capture AFE module and development kit for voice-enabled IoT products. “ArkX’s advanced far-field products enable engineers and developers to bring a powerful voice experience to their products,” said David Stein, vp of global supplier management for Digi-Key. “Digi-Key is proud to offer these cutting-edge ...

BAMMsat-on-BEXUS is an attempt to create a miniaturised bio-lab compatible with 3U CubeSats, run by academics and students from Cranfield University and the University of Exeter. “Researching the effects of microgravity and radiation in on-ground facilities has technical constraints that can add complexity to data interpretation,” said project head and Cranfield PhD student Aqeel Shamsul. “However, in-flight experiments come with their ...

A partnership between Solid State Supplies and TT Electronics offers a framework to accelerate IoT deployments via TT Electronics‘ Speed to Connect system. Speed to Connect is a framework, covering proof of concept to scalable products. It has been created to enable customers to collaborate to deploy IoT devices faster. It is described as an end-to-end framework of hardware, connectivity, infrastructure ...

Over 340 new products have been added to the PRO factory automation sensors range by RS Components. The range now includes ultrasonic proximity sensors and fibre optical sensors which join the photoelectric proximity sensors (through-beam, retro-reflective and diffuse), inductive proximity sensors and capacitive proximity sensors. The sensors are used to detect a range of materials including metals, plastics, paper, liquids, ...

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company, QuickLogic. The distributor will initally stock Quicklogic’s EOS S3 low power microcontrollers (pictured) and QuickFeather development kits, supported by open source software. The agreement means Mouser will stock the EOS S3 sensor processor. This is a multi-core SoC based on low power, multi-core Arm Cortex M4 microcontroller ...

Andy Conway, sales manager at military embedded system specialist Recab UK, looks at the critical technologies at the edge of the battlefield and beyond, such as the Ethernet-based HSR, PRP and TSN protocols. Technology becomes more important to military and defence operations with each passing year. We need only look to the UK Government’s recent Defence Command paper and budget ...

Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente has signed a franchise agreement with Elmos Semiconductor to offer Elmos’ range in Europe (including Russia, Turkey and Africa).  From June this year, the franchise agreement will extend to North, Central and South America. Elmos has a strong presence in the automotive sector, with application specific standard products (ASSPs) for driver assistance and safety systems, for example ...

Digi-Key has highlighted how it turned to Bluetooth, and a LoRa network, to ensure safe distancing procedures for all employees in its product distribution center (PDC). Each employee is issued with an Option badge, which interact wirelessly with other such badges and also a cloud platform that can maintain contact tracing information. This improves the accuracy and efficiency of necessary ...

Edinburgh-based pyroelectric sensor maker Pyreos has appointed two distributors to increase its commercial presence in Asia. “These partnerships are set to increase our market share in South Korea and China,” said Pyreos v-p sales Keith Pruden. “More than this, these alliances will provide greater ability for our customers in Asia to simplify their supply chains and source full systems design ...