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Amphenol TV µCom Ethernet Connectors | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.

August 21, 2022 by Mouser Electronics

New Wind Sensor Takes Flight to Improve Drone Performance

Researchers have developed a more efficient wind sensor to improve the take-off and landing safety of drones, balloons, and other autonomous aircraft.

August 18, 2022 by Darshil Patel

Take Our 2022 EETech Global Engineering Survey

Join your engineering community peers and take our EETech 2022 Global Engineering Survey. You’ll get a summary of the results once they’re released. And you’ll be entered for a chance to win an Amazon card prize!

August 09, 2022 by Jeff Child

GaN Transistors Race Beyond Performance Limits as New Products Roll

As gallium nitride (GaN) technology gathers steam, new GaN transistor products are emerging to satisfy today’s engineering needs.

August 09, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Messages From Underwater: Researchers Reveal Two Water-Air Communication Methods

Back in 2018, MIT broke the water-air wireless communication barrier. Now, a team at KIT has transmitted messages in a novel way from the Titanic.

August 08, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois

Analog Devices Inc. HMC1126 Low Noise Amplifier | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.

July 19, 2022 by Mouser Electronics

The Tech Behind James Webb Telescope’s Stunning New Images

The most detailed space images yet are the result of several key imaging technologies on the James Webb Telescope.

July 14, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Qualcomm and Partners Send 5G Out of This World

Hoping to further the spread of 5G networks, a collaboration between Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Thales investigates 5G non-terrestrial networks (5G NTN).

July 13, 2022 by Jake Hertz

The Reverberations of Alan Blumlein, the Father of Modern Stereos

Responsible for the modern stereo and an advanced World War II radar, Alan Blumlein revolutionized sound engineering.

June 27, 2022 by Biljana Ognenova

Startup Echodyne Puts Metamaterials-based Radars to the Test

With the launch of a $135 million funding round, Echodyne is tackling the radar market with defense, security, and autonomy in mind.

June 25, 2022 by Ikimi .O

From Archeology to Autonomy, LiDAR Sweeps Industries

In the past month, LiDAR has made headlines in meteorology, archeology, and vehicle autonomy.

June 15, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Microchip Pushes First RISC-V-based SoC FPGA to Mass Production

Microchip continues the push for RISC-V hardware by reaching milestones with its PolarFire system-on-a-chip (SoC) field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and Mi-V ecosystem.

June 10, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Mapping the Moon—NASA Announces LiDAR-based Lunar Backpack

The focus is back on the moon, with NASA, backed by Aeva's LiDAR technology, creating a backpack to help map the moon.

April 28, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Ep. 44 | Blue Origin’s SVP Brent Sherwood on Engineering to Live and Work in Space

The audacious mission of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space company is to develop space systems for everyone (not just trained astronauts) to use and live in; and Brent Sherwood, space architect and Senior VP, is here to bring us behind the scenes.

April 26, 2022 by Daniel Bogdanoff

Pros and Cons of Space-based Flash—Microchip Takes Flash Off to Space

Microchip has recently extended its commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) radiation-tolerant technology to flash memory. However, what pros and cons exist for flash memory in space?

April 25, 2022 by Jake Hertz

A Roundup of Three Recent Connectors Hitting the Market

With a market saturated with options, engineers can find a purpose-built connector for just about any project. Here are a few standouts for Ethernet, automation, and defense.

April 22, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Seeing Through the Haze With the “Industry’s Lowest Sensitivity” Thermal Camera

With the new Boson+ product line, Teledyne FLIR hopes to enable higher performance and more accurate thermal imaging systems.

April 05, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Eleven T&M Functions, One Device: Liquid Instruments Introduces the “Instrument-on-Chip”

With an FPGA at its heart, the Moku product series allows engineers to tap into a suite of programmable test instruments—all on a single device.

March 28, 2022 by vishvachi

Inter-satellite Optical Links: A New Frontier for Communications Technology

With an eye on widespread internet access and defense, many space agencies and companies have zeroed in on laser-based systems for satellite-to-satellite communication.

March 24, 2022 by Arjun Nijhawan

Researchers Break Below the Earth’s Surface with Quantum Gravity Gradiometer

Striking to map out below the Earth's surface, researchers have created a quantum gravity cartography sensor using gravity gradiometers leveraging cold atom quantum sensing.

March 19, 2022 by Kristijan Nelkovski