EE Times News
Aircraft Actuator Electrification Redefines System-Level Architecture
Published: September 15, 2026, 7:00 pm
The transition from hydraulic to electric-motor aircraft actuators also encompasses many system-level issues and opportunities.
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Reduce Risk, Cut Costs, and Speed Time-to-Market with Certified WiFi & BLE Modules
Published: September 15, 2026, 5:23 pm
Join this webinar and learn how a certified WiFi and BLE combination module can simplify your next connected device design.
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Empowering the Future of Robotics
Published: September 15, 2026, 2:00 pm
See how autonomous mobile robots are transforming manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics. Explore the technologies driving smarter navigation, safer operations, and greater automation.
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Designing Passive Components for LEO Satellite Systems
Published: September 15, 2026, 2:00 pm
Selecting passive components for LEO satellite systems is becoming increasingly complex as spacecraft architectures evolve and constellation deployments scale. Engineers must determine when commercial, automotive-qualified, enhanced-screened, or space-qualified components are appropriate and understand the tradeoffs each approach introduces for performance, risk, cost, and manufacturability. This paper connects system-level LEO satellite requirements to practical component selection […]
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FCC Rule on Optical Connectivity Could Slow AI Race
Published: September 15, 2026, 12:32 pm
Escalating tech war between the U.S. and China and a potential FCC ban on importing optical network equipment could force hyperscalers to navigate critical shortages.
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Hackaday News
A Super-Accurate Clock Using a Tiny Microcontroller
Published: September 16, 2026, 5:00 am
DCF77 is a German VLF transmitting station that broadcasts a time signal across Europe on 77.5 kHz. Thus a common sight in a European home is a clock emblazoned with …read more
Tips To Model Your Next CNC Cabinet in CAD Before Buying Anything
Published: September 16, 2026, 2:00 am
[Clough42] has started a new CNC control cabinet build, and uses it as an opportunity to demonstrate why he models the whole thing out in CAD before ordering parts or …read more
Coffee Maker Steam Wand Gets a Safe Outlet
Published: September 15, 2026, 11:00 pm
Sometimes a hacker has a specific sort of problem, and uses the tools they have to solve it in a way that just might be helpful to someone else. That’s …read more
After 6 Years as Road Ornament a Widescreen Sony Trinitron Lives Again
Published: September 15, 2026, 8:00 pm
After previously adopting a big Sony Trinitron CRT TV that had been trying to hitch a ride along the side of a road in Italy for at least six years, …read more
Sampling the Elephant’s Foot and Chornobyl’s Tedious Corium Clean-up
Published: September 15, 2026, 6:30 pm
The site of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) remains a unique location, as what’s left of the No. 4 reactor is the only place in the world where you …read more
Adafruit Blog News
NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit TCS3448 14-Channel Light / Color Sensor Breakout
Published: September 15, 2026, 8:35 pm
NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit TCS3448 14-Channel Light / Color Sensor Breakout __________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Adafruit TCS3448 (a.k.a TCS34488) Multi-Spectral Sensor is a multi-channel spectrometer, which is a special type of light sensor that is able to detect not only the amount of light present but also the amounts of light within different wavelengths. This means that you can use it […]
NEW PRODUCT – ScoutMakes DRV5011 Digital Magnetic Hall Effect Sensor
Published: September 15, 2026, 8:20 pm
NEW PRODUCT – ScoutMakes DRV5011 Digital Magnetic Hall Effect Sensor __________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is a breakout for the Texas Instruments DRV5011 Digital Magnetic Latch Hall Effect Sensor. It is the perfect way to add magnetic sensing to your project. It looks and sounds a lot like the DRV5032 but this version has a latching output. The sensor has a digital […]
Printed Matter’s 2026 New York Art Book Fair
Published: September 15, 2026, 8:00 pm
From September 24th through the 27th, you can check out Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair for discussions, exhibitions, lectures, and book launches at MoMA PS1. Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is the world’s leading fair for artists’ books. Over four days, NYABF convenes hundreds of independent publishers, artists, antiquarian booksellers, zine collectives, […]
wch-protocols helps document the use of WCH chips
Published: September 15, 2026, 7:34 pm
GitHub user ch32-riscv-ug has developed wch-protocols, a knowledge base for the protocols behind flashing and debugging WCH’s CH32 RISC-V chips. The aim is a spec you can implement from without being tied to any one tool. Byte layouts, register addresses, the procedures themselves. Enough to write your own programmer in Python, Rust, C etc. It […]
More than 9,000 patches total in the seven stable kernels for Monday
Published: September 15, 2026, 7:23 pm
jzb at LWN reports that Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced seven stable kernel releases at once: 7.2.6, 6.18.52, 6.12.110, 6.6.157, 6.1.188, 5.15.221 and 5.10.270. Kroah-Hartman says the batch may set a record for patch count, with more than 9,000 patches across the seven releases. The 7.2.6 release alone carries more than 1,800 of them. Users of […]
Electronics Weekly News
Euclyd raises €200m to transform datacentres
Published: September 16, 2026, 5:16 am
Euclyd, a Dutch startup targetting AI iCs and racks, has raised €200 million in a Series A funding round. Euclyd’s chairman is former ASML CEO Peter Wennink. Investors are Samsung, […]
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Delos raises $100m for faster datacentre networking ICs
Published: September 16, 2026, 5:14 am
Delos Data, a stsrtup founded by ex-Intel engineers, has raised over $100 million to pursue networking chips for datacentres. Investors were Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, Capricorn’s Technology Impact Fund, Matter […]
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Semiconductor programmed by light
Published: September 16, 2026, 5:10 am
Researchers at Princeton Engineering have created a semiconductor which is a few molecules thick and can repeatedly change its properties in response to light. . The researchers have created a […]
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Gates Foundation to spend $1bn on expanding access to AI
Published: September 16, 2026, 5:08 am
Yesterday, the Gates Foundation announced plans to spend at least $1 billion over the next two years to expand access to artificial intelligence and the AI-enabled solutions, opportunities, and knowledge […]
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Sensor reduces cost of automotive camera module
Published: September 16, 2026, 5:03 am
ST is sampling a 1.1 MP automotive image sensor for infrared in-cabin sensing called ST Safe Sense VD56GA that helps OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers scale driver and occupant monitoring […]
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