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On the fifth anniversary of its first LaunchPad development kit, Texas Instruments announced the low-cost C2000 Delfino F28377S microcontroller (MCU) LaunchPad development kit, the first LaunchPad for the Delfino line of MCU.

At the 2015 Freescale Technology Forum, Freescale introduced the i.MX 7 series – a new generation of power efficient and full featured applications processors based on its successful and broadly deployed i.MX platform.

In keeping with constant discoveries of new methods for energy generation and distribution, a group of engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison along with a collaborator from China have developed a nanogenerator that harvests…

Last year, lying among trashed planes in an aircraft junkyard in Wisconsin, a historic piece of craft was discovered.

Drones, drones, drones. Everywhere you look some company wants to employ delivery drones or someone wants to shoot down a drone, or someone accidentally crashes a drone.

For a few years now, Molson Canadian, a division of Molson Coors Brewing Company, has been celebrating Canada Day with a unique marketing tool: a beer refrigerator that requires you to insert some sort of Canadian paraphernalia (like a…

Have you ever watched a crane lift some heavy cargo onto a shipping truck? How about a truck driver combat large packages while trying to load and unload? A shipping container company called Excalibur Shelters has released an…

There's a ton of tinkering that can be done with lasers. Now scientists are using lasers to create better superconductors and solar cells.

For over 6,000 years people have been manually laying bricks to construct buildings. As a result, building a house can be a long, drawn-out process.

While there are many varieties of cables, electrical cables are made up of two or more wires that run parallel to one another and are bonded, twisted, or braided together in order to form a single unit. The end of each assembled unit can be…

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California sent their 24-foot under-ice rover down to the bottom of a 188,000-gallon aquatic tank at the California Science Center in Los Angeles to test the innovative rover's…

Did you know how many kinds of crystals nature produces?  There's salt, snowflakes, and quartz - just to name a few. As many of you tech-savvy folks probably know, there's plenty of crystals used in electronics. Electronics are based on a…

Is that your car alarm that's sounding off? You won't even need to ask twice. Thanks to Chevrolet and OnStar now you can receive notifications right to your phone via text or e-mail if the theft-alarm system is triggered. “Prompt…

Infineon Technologies announced the introduction of a family of rugged, reliable 700 V High-Voltage ICs (HVICs) optimized for solar, power supply, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), welding and industrial drive applications. The 700 V…

TTI, Inc now stocks FCI’s Minitek Pwr Hybrid 3.0mm and 4.2mm connectors in Europe. Compared with traditional power connectors, the new Hybrid series benefits from an improved and flexible modular design. This ensures that the number and…