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• RS cycle ride raises £230,000 for cancer charity

  20-06-2019 15:05 via electronicsweekly.com
  Staff from RS Components have completed an epic charity cycle ride, covering 1,100 miles from Aberdeen to London, raising £230,000 for Children with Cancer UK. . More than 60 employees took part in the ‘Tour de Branch’, which called at the firm’s 16 UK branches over 12 days, finishing at its London HQ where participants were greeted ...
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• New test method could accelerate UK driverless car adoption.

  20-06-2019 13:55
  
  A new method for rapidly testing and validating autonomous vehicle technologies could help accelerate the adoption of driverless cars in the UK.   
  A member of Move_UK fleet next to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. Image: Move_UKThe technique has been developed through the Bosch-led Move_UK initiative, a three year long government funded project (launched in 2016) that also involves Jaguar Land Rover; Telematics specialist The Floow; the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL); Direct Line ins
  
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• Research network set to electrify UK transport system

  20-06-2019 13:52
  
  The challenges of electrifying the transport network, including its impact on the National Grid, will be tackled as part of a research network being created in the UK.The EPSRC-funded network, known as Decarbonising Transport through Electrification (DTE), plans to identify and address some of the challenges holding up the implementation of an integrated, electrified transport system across the automotive, aerospace and rail sectors.
  The project, which is being led by Dr Liana Cipcigan, co-direc
  
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• Leeds ladies take top spot in community design challenge

  20-06-2019 13:49
  
  Two young female engineers from Leeds Beckett University have won the grand Engineering for People Design Challenge prize.Lydia Williams and Charlotte Sutherland (left) – both civil engineering students at Leeds Beckett – designed a women’s community hub for people living in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, using locally sourced natural and affordable materials. The annual competition is organised by Engineers Without Borders UK, a charity dedicated to inspiring the engineering
  
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• UK-led Comet Interceptor set to launch in 2028

  20-06-2019 12:24
  
  A new ESA mission led by UK scientists will attempt to get up close to a pristine comet, untouched by our sun, for the very first time.
  (Credit: ESA)Due to launch in 2028, Comet Interceptor will initially sit at the L2 Lagrange point, 1.5 million miles from the Earth in the opposite direction to the Sun. It will lie in wait at L2 until a suitable pristine comet – or interstellar object such as Oumuamua – is spotted travelling inward from the outer realms of the solar system.
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• Smart speakers detect signs of cardiac arrest

  20-06-2019 11:36
  
  Smart speakers such as Amazon Alexa could soon alert emergency services to individuals experiencing cardiac arrest, which results in around 500,000 US deaths per year.
  Researchers at the University of Washington have developed an algorithm for a smart speaker or smartphone lets the device detect the sound of agonal breathing and call for help (Image: Sarah McQuate/University of Washington)People experiencing cardiac arrest will either stop breathing or gasp for air, a sign called agonal breathin
  
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• Raspberry Pi powers Pixxl Cube

  20-06-2019 08:46 via electronicsweekly.com
  A clever Hungarian adaptation of  that great Hungarian invention, Rubik’s Cube, uses Raspberry Pi to power a six-sided display. The creators call it the Pixxl Cube. Each 32×32 pixel surface is capable of creating anything from words to scenes. It could be used as an advertising display orbas a party prop. Budapest startup Pirategames programmed ...
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• Western Digital extends RISC-V involvement

  20-06-2019 07:24 via electronicsweekly.com
  Western Digital is extending its involvement in RISC-V with two initiatives. First is a partnership with PlatformIO Labs to engage in RISC-V development tools. The second is adding enhancements to its open-sourced RISC-V SweRV Core and cache-coherent fabric, OmniXtend. Together, the moves  further the company’s support of  RISC-V and boost its development of compute architectures ...
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• TI adds comms to MCUs

  20-06-2019 07:07 via electronicsweekly.com
  TI has added communications capabilities to its C2000 MCUs. C2000 F2838x 32-bit MCUs enable designers to use a single chip to implement connectivity, including EtherCAT, Ethernet and Controller Area Network with Flexible Data Rate (CAN FD), in AC servo drives and other industrial systems. Systems with communication interfaces often require an external application-specific integrated circuit ...
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• SiP contains accelerometer and gyroscope for gaming, sports.

  20-06-2019 07:00 via electronicsweekly.com
  ST’s LSM6DSR MEMS SiP contains a 3-axis digital accelerometer and a 3-axis digital gyroscope with a specially extended full-scale angular rate of 4000 degrees per second for fast-moving gaming and sports applications. Compliant with major mobile OSes, and supporting S4S Synchronization for Sensors, the LSM6DSR is compatible with popular mobile platforms and provides real, virtual, ...
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