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Mikroelektronika announces to develop compilers for FTDI’s 32-bit MCUs

Posted on October 5, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

MikroElektronika has announced a close cooperation with FTDI Chip to develop a series of compilers and hardware development boards for FTDI’s FT90X series of microcontrollers. 1st October 2014 – Belgrade-headquartered development tool chain supplier MikroElektronika has signed a formal agreement with FTDI Chip to create mikroC, mikroBasic and mikroPascal compilers for the FT90X 32-bit microcontroller offering. The FT90X utilises a proprietary 32-bit RISC architecture – allowing it to set performance benchmarks beyond 2.93DMIPS/MHz, with true zero wait-states operation up to 100MHz frequencies, as well as capacious memory and an array of advanced connectivity resources. Read More

Microchip announced a new addition to its PIC12/16LF155X 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) family featuring dual ADC peripheral

Posted on October 1, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

Microchip Technology expands low-cost 8-bit PIC® Microcontroller portfolio with new devices featuring dual ADC peripheral. Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced a new addition to its PIC12/16LF155X 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) family with the PIC16LF1554 and PIC16LF1559 (PIC16LF1554/9) devices. The PIC16LF1554/9 includes two independent 10-bit 100K samples per second Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC) with hardware Capacitive Voltage Divider (CVD) support for capacitive-touch sensing. This unique ADC configuration enables more efficient sensor acquisition and assists with advanced touch-sensing techniques for extremely noisy environments, low-power applications, matrix keypads and water-resistant designs. Read the full story!

A Boy and His Atom: The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film

Posted on September 2, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

A Boy and His Atom is the world’s smallest movie made of rendered still images of the individually arranged carbon atoms on a copper surface using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The movie was made by IBM researchers and made of 242 individual stop-motion frames, with each frame measuring approximately 50 atoms wide. Here’s the movie posted on Youtube.

Self-organizing Kilobots

Posted on August 20, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

The Self-organizing Systems Research Group at Harvard has created a “thousand robot swarm“, named Kilobots, which can self-arrange themselves into shapes and patterns. Each robot in the group moves uses two vibrating motors to move and an infrared TX/RX pair to communicate with its neighbors and to measure their proximity. The Kilobot robot software and hardware design are available open-source for non-commercial use. Watch this video to see the robots in action.

Google’s Littlebox Challenge offers $1,000,000 prize for designing a smaller inverter

Posted on August 10, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

Google and IEEE have jointly announced the Littlebox Challenge, offering One million US dollar prize for designing the most efficient and compact size inverter that would convert direct current from devices such as solar panels and batteries into alternating current for use in homes, businesses, and cars. Inverters are the essential boxes that take direct current from devices such as solar panels and batteries and turn it into alternating current for use in homes, businesses, and cars. The problem is household inverters are too big—roughly the size of a picnic cooler. Making them smaller would enable more solar-powered homes, more

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