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Teardown Tuesday: What’s inside a Bluetooth Radar Detector?

Teardown Tuesday: What’s inside a Bluetooth Radar Detector?

Ever wonder what's inside a radar detector? In this week's Teardown Tuesday you'll find out!


News Mar 22, 2016 by Alex Udanis
3 BLE Design Facets to Watch at Bluetooth World 2016

3 BLE Design Facets to Watch at Bluetooth World 2016

The show will provide a glimpse of where Bluetooth Smart technology stands in wearable and IoT designs.


News Mar 15, 2016 by Majeed Ahmad
Teardown Tuesday: Spektrum DX4C RC Car Transmitter

Teardown Tuesday: Spektrum DX4C RC Car Transmitter

In this week's teardown Tuesday we are going to take a look inside an RC car transmitter.


News Mar 15, 2016 by Alex Udanis
Meet Microsemi Corp’s New ZL70550

Meet Microsemi Corp’s New ZL70550

Microsemi Corp has announced it will now offer the industry’s lowest power sub-GHz radio frequency transceiver. This is great news as it will offer an exceptionally low power solution to help secure the IoT, especially in medical uses.


News Mar 09, 2016 by Aaron LaBarbera
Meet the New NINA-B1 from u-Blox

Meet the New NINA-B1 from u-Blox

The NINA-B1 Bluetooth module offers new possibilities in the world of IoT


News Mar 05, 2016 by Aaron LaBarbera
ON Semiconductor’s New Offerings Give Boost to IoT

ON Semiconductor’s New Offerings Give Boost to IoT

ON Semiconductor debuted a few new goodies in Nuremberg, Germany this week at Embedded World 2016.


News Feb 27, 2016 by Aaron LaBarbera
Zentri’s “Silicon-to-Cloud” is Changing the IoT and M2M Game

Zentri’s “Silicon-to-Cloud” is Changing the IoT and M2M Game

An overview of Zentri's IoT and M2M Platform. Does it live up its predecessor?


News Feb 05, 2016 by Orrin Bigelow
All About Ingenu’s Machine Network

All About Ingenu’s Machine Network

The Machine Network, based on Ingenu's RPMA Technology, is a self-modulating, direct-sequence spread spectrum wireless communication system operating in the 2.4GHz band. It is intended for Machine-to-Machine and Internet of Things applications only.


News Feb 03, 2016 by Orrin Bigelow
An Introduction to Digi International’s Device Cloud

An Introduction to Digi International’s Device Cloud

An introduction to Digi International's Device Cloud, an IoT and M2M Platform.


News Jan 29, 2016 by Orrin Bigelow
Winning the IoT Game

Winning the IoT Game

Get your IoT product out the door faster without losing control of your design.


News Dec 11, 2015 by PatrickM
NXP’s Thread Platform Makes Low-Power IoT Design a Cinch

NXP’s Thread Platform Makes Low-Power IoT Design a Cinch

NXP demonstrated its Thread Platform at ARMTechCon last week. Based on the JN5179 wireless MCU, with Secure Element, NFC, Thread encryption, its own dc/dc converter and featuring ARM's mbed OS, the Platform makes secure home automation application design a whole lot easier.


News Nov 19, 2015 by PatrickM
A Big Mesh: Military Tactics and the Future of Mobile Communications

A Big Mesh: Military Tactics and the Future of Mobile Communications

An analysis of the historical link between the military's use of retransmission stations ("retrans") and the advent of the mesh network.


News Sep 01, 2015 by Mark Gerasimas
The Five Best Hardware Kickstarters (That Need Your Money)

The Five Best Hardware Kickstarters (That Need Your Money)

Five of the coolest hardware Kickstarters!


News Jun 30, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
Saelig’s New Low Power Radio Transceiver

Saelig’s New Low Power Radio Transceiver

The new 2.4 GHz radio transceiver module is designed to facilitate the simple embedding of wireless capabilities in industrial remote control equipment.


News Jun 04, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley
Cypress’ Bluetooth Smart Remote Control and Touch Mouse Reference Design Kits

Cypress’ Bluetooth Smart Remote Control and Touch Mouse Reference Design Kits

Cypress announced the availability of two reference design kits (RDKs) based on its PRoC™ BLE Programmable Radio-on-Chip solution for Bluetooth Smart applications. The new CY5672 PRoC BLE Remote Control RDK and CY5682 PRoC BLE Touch Mouse RDK provide feature-rich, production-ready implementations with prolonged battery life.


News Jun 01, 2015 by Tim Youngblood
Industry’s First NFC Sensor Transponder

Industry’s First NFC Sensor Transponder

Texas Instruments (TI) released today the industry’s first Near Field Communication (NFC) sensor transponder family. The RF430RL25xH system-on-chip (SoC) device is equipped with a fully programmable low power microcontroller (MCU), non-volatile FRAM, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and supports an ISO 15693-compliant NFC interface as well as Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and Inter Integrated Circuit (I2C). The high frequency13.56-MHz sensor transponder can operate on full passive (battery-less) or semi-active modes for optimal battery life in portable and wireless sensing applications.


News Apr 06, 2015 by Tim Youngblood