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• If we allow our children to be unimaginative and dull they will rarely be anything else

  15-03-2018 18:44
  
  Just as today’s lego kits deprive children of the opportunity to use their imaginations, 3D printing is failing to deliver on its promised ability to inspire the next generation, writes our anonymous blogger 
  Recently, for a brief moment, I thought I was going to get one of these pieces quoted back at me. Sadly that little hoped for vanity remains as yet unrealised but I can let you know that it was during a chat with a colleague about creativity.
  Today’s Lego sets are sold as b
  
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• Subcon partners with Automechanika to give visitors access to both shows with one badge

  15-03-2018 18:26
  
  Centaur Media today announced a unique partnership between Subcon, the defining event in the manufacturing supply chain calendar, and Automechanika Birmingham, the UK’s leading exhibition for the automotive aftermarket and vehicle production sector.The partnership will enable all visitors to benefit from attending both events by registering just once for their visitor badge. The two leading events make for a comprehensive day out for all engineers and are set to take place from 5-7 June 2
  
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• Fusing old with new: Autodesk is modernising traditional processes

  15-03-2018 17:06
  
  Since acquiring Delcam in 2014, the American software company Autodesk has invested heavily in the machine shop and is now bridging the gap between additive and subtractive
  Small Heath has seen some changes over the decades. Its location on the main road linking Coventry and Birmingham made it a key site for industry; and until the early 1970s it was the home of BSA, churning out at various times rifles, handguns, bicycles, motorbikes, cars and taxis. Television viewers will know it as the home
  
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• Pulsed power machine aims to trigger fusion reaction for Oxford spin-out

  15-03-2018 15:37
  
  A UK company is hoping to take a step towards generating low-cost, sustainable energy from fusion, with the installation of a pulsed power machine designed to trigger the reaction.Fusion, the process that powers the Sun, involves fusing two lighter atomic nuclei to form a single heavier one, releasing huge amounts of energy in the process. It is seen as a potentially limitless source of cheap, carbon-free energy, since its main fuel is a heavy isotope of hydrogen called deuterium, contained in s
  
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• Cambridge Design Partnership and ECCO step into customised footwear

  15-03-2018 13:13
  
  Cambridge Design Partnership has worked with shoe brand ECCO to help the company realise the potential of data-driven customised footwear.
  Measuring foot geometryECCO’s QUANT-U project takes individual data to produce customised silicone midsoles via an in-store additive manufacturing process.
  In the space of a few minutes, consumers receive a full digital analysis of their foot structure and the way they move. Shoes are then tailored to their specific requirements in a few hours.
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• Avnet names two European presidents

  15-03-2018 13:10 via electronicsweekly.com
  Avnet has announced a leadership change at the top of its European organisation. With the retirement of Miguel Fernandez, the distributor has divided responsibilities for the European presidential role between EBV Elektronik head Slobodan Puljarevic and Mario Orlandi who runs Avnet Silica. The change will reduce a level off management in the distributor’s European operation. ...
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• Government allocates new money for gigabit fibre broadband

  15-03-2018 12:55 via electronicsweekly.com
  The Chancellor’s Spring Statement has allocated the first wave of funding for improving broadband optical fibre communications across the country. Around £95m will come out of the Government’s £190m Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) budget for 13 areas across the UK. This represents the government’s attempt to address the disappointing level of access to gigabit-capable ...
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• Rendering brain tissue transparent can help explain degenerative disease

  15-03-2018 12:51
  
  Mapping dense tangles of nerve cells can provide insights into Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and depression
  Distribution of nerve cellsResearchers from Imperial College London and Hong Kong University have developed the method for “clearing” brain tissue as a way of making the task of tracing the complex circuitries of nerve cells within the brain much less arduous.
  Traditionally, neurons are mapped by slicing the brain into multiple thin slices and tracking the cells as they
  
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• US firm builds 3D printed house in less than a day

  15-03-2018 12:14
  
  US construction technologies firm Icon has demonstrated a method for 3D printing a single story house in less than 24 hours.The small company – which is hoping to pioneer the use of 3D printing for homebuilding – has unveiled a 650 square foot home in Austin, Texas that was built using its Vulcan 3D printer, which builds structures by depositing layers of specially formulated cement.
  The firm claims that it can print an entire home for $10,000 but that costs could ultimately be broug
  
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• Interview: Anthony Finkelstein, the government’s chief scientific adviser for national security

  15-03-2018 10:00
  
  The chief scientific adviser for national security is far from a Bond techie and passionate about British research
  Magazines like The Engineer arrange interviews in two ways. Sometimes we contact organisations to request interviews with people who we think might be interesting, and sometimes they are pitched to us. In this case, the Royal Academy of Engineering got in touch and asked if we’d like to speak to Anthony Finkelstein. He is the chief scientific adviser for national security, we
  
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• Interview: Anthony Finkelstein, Royal Academy of Engineering’s chief scientific adviser for national security

  15-03-2018 10:00
  
  The chief scientific adviser for national security is far from a Bond techie and passionate about British research
  Magazines like The Engineer arrange interviews in two ways. Sometimes we contact organisations to request interviews with people who we think might be interesting, and sometimes they are pitched to us. In this case, the Royal Academy of Engineering got in touch and asked if we’d like to speak to Anthony Finkelstein. He is the chief scientific adviser for national security, we
  
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• Shropshire robot company wins IET award.

  15-03-2018 08:15 via electronicsweekly.com
  Small Robot Company, a British agritech start-up, today announced it has won a prestigious Horizontal Innovation Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC), sponsored by Innovate UK. The Company harnesses the power and precision of robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the way that food ...
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• Public LiFi demo in Bristol this weekend

  15-03-2018 07:46 via electronicsweekly.com
  For the first time anywhere in the world this weekend [Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March] people in Bristol will experience LiFi provided by pureLiFi as part of a 5G public urban environment. During Bristol’s Layered Realities Weekend 5G Showcase researchers will demonstrate how a share of £16 million investment by the UK Government’s Department ...
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• GloFo qualifies 300mm line for Si Photonics.

  15-03-2018 07:37 via electronicsweekly.com
  GF’s current silicon photonics offering built on its 90nm RF SOI process which had previously been manufactured using 200mm wafer processing, has now been qualified on  300mm wafers at GF’s Fab 10 facility in East Fishkill, N.Y The platform can enable solutions that provide 30GHz of bandwidth to support client side data rates of up to ...
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• IC Insights’ 2018 memory forecasts adjusted upwards

  15-03-2018 07:15 via electronicsweekly.com
  The DRAM and NAND flash memory market growth forecasts for 2018 have been adjusted upward, by IC Insights,  to 37% for DRAM and 17% for NAND flash. The big increase in the DRAM market forecast for 2018 is primarily due to a much stronger ASP expected for this year than was originally forecast. IC Insights ...
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• Mouser signs Doodle

  15-03-2018 07:13 via electronicsweekly.com
  Mouser has signed Doodle Labs’ range of  industrial Wi-Fi transceivers. Doodle Labs claims its transceivers achieve long range through high transmit power, operate efficiently in extreme temperature ranges and have high interference immunity, enabling the stable performance demanded by complex applications. The transceivers have an integrated low-noise amplifier to pick up low-energy signals from mobile ...
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