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How Open Source Launched My Small Business

On June 25, 2014 in Open Source by Mike Parks

Open Source Hardware (OSHW) has truly changed my life. It allowed me to launch my own business. How so you might ask? Well let’s take a little stroll down memory lane, shall we?

Tagged With: Open Source, OSHW

White Noise, Cubicles & Fluorescent Lights

On June 25, 2014 in Lighting by Paul Golata

For most of us, it’s what we have to do to pay our bills so that we can live the lifestyle we want. We have to wake up and go to work.

Tagged With: Cree, Fluorescent Lights, LEDs, Lighting, Philips, T8

Survival Of The Fittest: Will RJ45 Last In Industrial Applications?

On June 20, 2014 in Connectors by Gijs Werner

The Smart Factory is driving efficient, automated, flexible, scalable and decentralized manufacturing, whereby large amounts of data have to be transported and communicated reliably in a minimum of time. The industrial network is thereby becoming very important: everything will be connected with inceasing speeds to the lowest level of the factory floor.

Tagged With: Connectors, Industrial Applications, M12, RJ45, TE Connectivity

Sensors Are a Primary Source for Big Data

On June 19, 2014 in IoT, Sensors by Ian Chen

Consider a conference that is simultaneously transmitted to audiences in three cities. When a presenter asks the audience a survey question, they can respond by simply raising their hands. The total vote is tallied across all three cities and displayed to the presenter and the audience in real time.

Tagged With: Data, Freescale, Internet of Things, IoT, Sensors

Buying From Independents Carries Problems and Risks

On June 18, 2014 in Quality by Chuck Amsden

Last week I had a prime tell us they preferred to buy a part through an independent rather than directly from Mouser, an authorized distributor. I’ve been told this is for the convenience of the prime. They want to keep their suppler base low and they don’t have an account with Mouser. So they add an extra link to the chain by having the independent buy it from us and then the independent turns around and brokers it to the prime.

Tagged With: AS5553A, Distribution, Mouser Electronics, OCMs, Quality

Workbench for the Road: Mouser and LEMO at Le Mans 2014

On June 13, 2014 in All by Erik Smith

For those who don’t know, “24 Hours at Le Mans” is the oldest active sports car race in endurance racing. Think of it as the ultimate test lab for advanced technology. And there’s no trick to that name, this year’s race starts June 14th, 15:00 CEST (9:00am EST / 8:00am CST) and ends 15:00 CEST on June 15th. Driver, Crew and vehicle need to be at the top of their game to compete in this grueling test of racing and engineering.

Tesla Motors Embraces Open Source Philosophy

On June 12, 2014 in All by Erik Smith

Elon Musk and Tesla Motors made a HUGE announcement today, stating in a blog post that they "will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology."

Tagged With: Elon Musk, Open Source, Tesla Motors

How to Crash an Engineering Course at Rice University

On June 11, 2014 in All by Lynnette Reese

I never thought that I would be sitting in on an EE class, years after graduating, taught by a Professor Emeritus at Rice University. I snuck in at the tail end of the course when he was in the middle of discussing op amps. I feel so guilty; I haven’t paid the university a dime, but I am excited to be here. I settle in and listen for a while. No one asks any questions; I assume they are all busy taking notes. Then I sped up time a bit so things would go 25% faster, since I had seen most of this before. It’s handy, but you have to have a MOOC to do that.

From a Little STEM Grows an Exciting Future

On June 9, 2014 in All by Caroline Storm Westenhover

I got to the end of my last blog and found myself so excited about the possibilities of Radio Frequency Identification that I could not help but sit down and do some thermal engineering to satiate my desire for some math and physics, the foundations of engineering.

Tagged With: College, Engineering, STEM, Student

New Ultra-Low-Power Benchmark

On June 4, 2014 in Low Power by John Donovan

As an editor I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of specmanship, which is why I always look to datasheets, though meaningful comparisons of seemingly similar MCUs between different vendors are hard to construct, especially since overall energy consumption is so application specific. As Markus Levy of the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) remarked to me last week, “Datasheets don’t lie, they just present [information] the way they want to present it.”

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