Where electronics is headed (Part I)
There's always something interesting to see in EETimes about what's happening on the electronics front.
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Left-hand turns: a challenge for self-driving cars
Left hand turns are hard, even for those of us who aren’t in our 80’s...If the task is difficult for us humans, it’s especially tough for self-driving cars.
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Juicero: proof positive that technology isn’t the answer for everything
$120 million in VC. 400 parts in a juicer that squeezes $5-8 juice packets. Turns out, it's faster to squeeze those packets by hand...
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eFPGAs are coming of age
I noticed a recent article by Tim Saxe, “Embedded programmability finds sweet spot in IoT,” on EE Times, which discusses the role that FPGAs are playing with respect to embedded programming in IoT devices.
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The new Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework
The Industrial Internet of Consortium has recently published its Connectivity Framework, the latest in a series of technical papers establishing standards for Industrial IoT development.
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There’s a lot happening on the FPGA front
It was the title of the article on EE Journal that caught my eye: “FPGAs Race for the Bottom,” which rounds up recent FPGA releases.
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Proving the case for arson by evaluating pacemaker data
There’s a news story from Ohio about how data from a cardiac pacemaker is being used to prosecute an arson case. After a suspicious fire in his home last fall, Ross Compton is now facing felony charges of aggravated arson and insurance fraud.
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Chip news, from NASA and Intel
When it came to chips, last week was a big one for news. First, we learned that NASA has produced a new chip that will be able to withstand the extreme conditions on Venus. The other chip news of the week was Intel’s decision to go through with plans to build a new chip factor in Arizona.
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GotProduce?’s got plenty of technology in their hydroponic systems
One company that’s involved in hydroponics – and which makes greenhouses that are highly-evolved solution from the technology perspective - is GotProduce?, which focuses primarily on developing countries, especially those that are most susceptible to drought.
GotProduce? systems are “smart”, full of all sorts of technology to help ensure that growers succeed.
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Emerging Technologies for 2017 – Part Two
Earlier this month I had a post that covered half of the hot technology predictions from EDN and EE Times editors as featured on embedded.com. Here’s the second half of what the EDN and EE Times pundits see on the horizon for 2017.
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