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TDK MAF Noise Suppression Filters | New Product Brief

TDK MAF Noise Suppression Filters | New Product Brief

TDK’s MAF series of noise suppression filters are miniaturized audio line filters designed for use in smartphones, tablets, portable game consoles, and other devices with wireless receivers.


How to Make Your Umbrella into a Weather Station with a Particle Photon

How to Make Your Umbrella into a Weather Station with a Particle Photon

Want to get to-the-minute, location-specific weather information delivered right to your own Adafruit IO dashboard? It's time to assemble your very own SmartBrella.


Projects Dec 13, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
Guide to USB-C Pinout and Features

Guide to USB-C Pinout and Features

This introductory article will look at some of the most important features of the USB-C standard.


Make Your Own Home Brewing Sensor Kit with the Gentleman Maker’s Adafruit IO SmartBrewer

Make Your Own Home Brewing Sensor Kit with the Gentleman Maker’s Adafruit IO SmartBrewer

Have a party coming up in the next few weeks that you want to make extra posh? Try making your own extra-special brew with the Gentleman Maker's SmartBrewer! Make sure you have an Adafruit IO account ready to go and your Particle Photon on hand.


Projects Dec 06, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
Amphenol Advanced Sensors Pipe Clip Temperature Sensors | New Product Brief

Amphenol Advanced Sensors Pipe Clip Temperature Sensors | New Product Brief

Amphenol Advanced Sensors JS8741 are high sensitivity clip-on temperature sensors used to monitor fluid or gas temperature in pipes or tubing.


Engineering Spotlight: Robotics and Computer Vision with Rich LeGrand, President of Charmed Labs

Engineering Spotlight: Robotics and Computer Vision with Rich LeGrand, President of Charmed Labs

AAC's Chantelle Dubois had a chance to speak to LeGrand about his inspiration to become a roboticist, his work with Charmed Labs and CMU CREATE lab, as well as his thoughts on what makes being an engineer so exciting in today's day and age.


News Nov 26, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Mean Well DDR Family DC-DC Converters | New Product Brief

Mean Well DDR Family DC-DC Converters | New Product Brief

Mean Well’s DDR family of DIN Rail DC-DC converters can address a broad range of applications, with power ratings from 15W to 240W.


KEMET Electronics TRS Thermal Reed Switches | New Product Brief

KEMET Electronics TRS Thermal Reed Switches | New Product Brief

KEMET Electronics TRS thermal reed switches provide precise, highly reliable thermal switching for energy saving applications.


Panasonic SD and eMMC Storage Media | Featured Product Spotlight

Panasonic SD and eMMC Storage Media | Featured Product Spotlight

Panasonic’s broad portfolio of SD and eMMC storage media offers fixed and removable storage solutions able to address a wide range of durability, capacity, and use-case requirements.


Amphenol PCD TV µCom Ethernet Connectors | New Product Brief

Amphenol PCD TV µCom Ethernet Connectors | New Product Brief

Amphenol TV µCom Ethernet Connectors are miniature Cat 6A connectors built for use in the harshest environments, including battlefield communication, grounded vehicles, military avionics, and rail mass transit.


Molex In-Vehicle Media Modules | Tech Specs

Molex In-Vehicle Media Modules | Tech Specs

For charging devices in vehicles, Molex offers a line of USB smart-charge modules that are easy to integrate and provides users easy-to-use chargers with a number of modern features.


new products Nov 08, 2018 by TTI, Inc
Meet the Aquatic Drone Saving the Great Barrier Reef with Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Meet the Aquatic Drone Saving the Great Barrier Reef with Machine Learning and Computer Vision

The Queensland University of Technology has announced that its robotic hunter-killer aquatic drone will now double as a seaborne midwife to save the Great Barrier Reef.


News Nov 07, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
SpiNNaker, the Million-Core Supercomputer, Finally Switched On

SpiNNaker, the Million-Core Supercomputer, Finally Switched On

After 12 years in the making, the computer designed to work like a human brain, at the University of Manchester is finally switched on. What does this computer do? How is it made? And who is Steve Furber?


News Nov 05, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
Neutrik NA2-IO-DLINE Line I/O to Dante Interface | New Product Brief

Neutrik NA2-IO-DLINE Line I/O to Dante Interface | New Product Brief

Neutrik’s NA2-IO-DLINE Line I/O to Dante Interface is a PoE-powered Dante adapter providing two inputs and outputs.


Bridgetek Introduces “Credit Card” Dev Modules for EVE IC Geared Towards Human-Machine Interfaces

Bridgetek Introduces “Credit Card” Dev Modules for EVE IC Geared Towards Human-Machine Interfaces

Bridgetek recently released a slim "credit card" dev module for its EVE (embedded video engine) IC, the BT81x.


News Oct 24, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
Analog Devices LTM46xx µModule Regulators | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices LTM46xx µModule Regulators | Featured Product Spotlight

Analog Devices LTM4600 family of µModule regulators consists of compact, highly integrated buck, boost, and buck-boost regulators in BGA and LGA package.


Haptic Technologies Roundup: Piezoelectric ICs, AR/VR Gloves, and Haptic Clothing

Haptic Technologies Roundup: Piezoelectric ICs, AR/VR Gloves, and Haptic Clothing

Haptic technology has come a long way in the past few decades and continues to find innovative improvements and applications across industries. Here's a quick look at some recent haptic technology-related news.


News Oct 20, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Micron e.MMC Memory | New Product Brief

Micron e.MMC Memory | New Product Brief

Micron e.MMC memories provide designers a simple solution to mass storage, removing the burden of complex error correction and NAND management.


CUI Micro Audio Components | New Product Brief

CUI Micro Audio Components | New Product Brief

CUI’s family of micro audio components provide designers the versatility to add buzzers, speakers, and microphones in space-constrained IoT designs, mobile products, and miniaturized consumer electronics.


How to Use Your Computer to Generate Complex Analog Waveforms

How to Use Your Computer to Generate Complex Analog Waveforms

This article presents Scilab code that allows you to generate I/Q, noise, and chirp signals from your PC’s headphone jack.