EE Times News
AI Data Centers Make Power, Cooling Critical to Scaling
Published: September 29, 2026, 2:42 pm
AI is transforming data centers into infrastructure platforms where power, cooling, and semiconductors determine scalability.
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EU Cyber Resilience Act: Three Misconceptions That Put Embedded Products at Risk
Published: September 29, 2026, 1:13 pm
The EU Cyber Resilience Act affects more embedded products than manufacturers may expect, with implications for connectivity, resale, and long-term security support.
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IBM Details Quantum, AI Developments in India
Published: September 29, 2026, 7:30 am
At SEMICON India 2026, IBM's Rahul Rao details India's role in quantum scaling, Qiskit education, and AI accelerators.
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Why U.S.-Europe Cooperation Matters for Quantum Leadership
Published: September 28, 2026, 7:00 pm
U.S.-Europe collaboration is critical for global quantum leadership, combining capital and talent to scale against rising competition.
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Calterah Turns UWB Digital Keys into In-Cabin Sensors
Published: September 28, 2026, 12:58 pm
Calterah brings UWB keyless anchors into synchronized networks, delivering enhanced vehicle safety without adding expensive hardware.
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Hackaday News
Designing a Fully 3D-Printed Mechanical Calculator
Published: September 29, 2026, 8:00 pm
Even if almost tragically impractical in a world where digital calculators are cheap as chips, mechanical calculators and their big mechanical computer brethren remain an absolute marvel of engineering. Using …read more
Improved Double-Sided Toner Transfer Method
Published: September 29, 2026, 6:30 pm
In the era before PCB shops would make almost any PCB imaginable, as well making many other manufacturing processes for prototypes available to hobbyists, there were several ways of making …read more
Electromechanical TV Goes 3D with This Light-field Display
Published: September 29, 2026, 3:30 pm
A mechanical TV — the kind that makes an image with a Nipkow disk and a single lamp with some help from persistence of vision — is easy enough to …read more
Geothermal Cooling For New York’s Subways
Published: September 29, 2026, 2:00 pm
You might think that if you dug some tunnels down into the ground where you could be out of the sunshine, that you might find them to be relatively cool …read more
Testing Coulomb’s Law and Similar Fundamentals Yourself Remains Tricky
Published: September 29, 2026, 11:00 am
How easy is it to build a simple demonstration at home that proves fundamental law of physics, such as Coulomb’s inverse square law, or Maxwell’s equations? This is one of …read more
Adafruit Blog News
CircuitPython POV Bike Wheel #Sensors #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Published: September 29, 2026, 8:15 pm
Turn your bike into a rolling light show with this Persistence of Vision Bike Wheel project from Erin St Blaine. This build uses six high-speed LED strips mounted across three spokes, with a Feather microcontroller running CircuitPython to draw colorful patterns and images as the wheel spins. A magnetic sensor tracks the wheel speed so […]
Synthetic aperture radar drone gets interferometric imaging
Published: September 29, 2026, 7:42 pm
Henrik Forstén has posted a follow-up on hforsten.com to his homebuilt synthetic aperture radar drone, and it now does interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with the same cheap hardware. The key addition is RTK GPS: an F9P module with a helical antenna found on AliExpress for 144 EUR, plus a 180 EUR base station. Position […]
You are no longer invited to dinner
Published: September 29, 2026, 7:36 pm
Derek Thompson reports new polling on how often Americans have people over. The group Data For Progress replicated the DDB Needham Life Style survey questions that Robert Putnam used in Bowling Alone, and shared the results. The share of Americans who host friends or family at home at least monthly fell from 42 percent in […]
AIR PRO: a Pip-Boy style air quality monitor with Qualia S3 and SEN66
Published: September 29, 2026, 7:01 pm
Edgar S built AIR PRO, an air quality monitor styled after a Fallout Pip-Boy, and documented it on Adafruit Playground. It uses a Qualia S3 driving a round display and a Sensirion SEN66 sensor module. The monitor reads CO2, particulates from PM1.0 to PM10, VOC, NOx, temperature and humidity every 2 seconds. It condenses all […]
Microcontrollers now run a diffusion model and 289M LLM
Published: September 29, 2026, 6:54 pm
Ananthu Ashok, writing for Open Source For You, reports on two open source projects running generative AI models directly on bare-metal microcontrollers, with no Linux, no GPU and no external accelerator. The first runs a compact diffusion model on an STM32N6570-DK board, which pairs an Arm Cortex-M55 with an Ethos-U55 neural processing unit. It generates […]
Electronics Weekly News
Microelectronics UK 2026: Semiconductor Catapult pivots to AI and RF
Published: September 29, 2026, 3:01 pm
With the UK Semiconductor Catapult formally launching today, Electronics Weekly talked with Caroline O’Brien, CEO of the organisation, at the Microelectronics UK event in London. The catapult, the reincarnation of […]
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AI Needs Revenue, Says Bain
Published: September 29, 2026, 1:00 pm
The AI industry needs a killer app – or multiple killer apps – says a report from Bain. The AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion in annual revenue by […]
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Microelectronics UK 2026: UK Government prioritising semiconductors
Published: September 29, 2026, 11:31 am
At Microelectronics UK 2026, the opening keynote was given by Julia Sutcliffe, the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser in BIST (the Department for Business Innovation, Science and Trade). She said that […]
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Why miniature pressure sensors are now a core OEM component
Published: September 29, 2026, 11:00 am
Choosing the right device in the miniature pressure sensor market needs careful consideration, writes Andrew Miller. The pressure sensor was once a specialist component, the preserve of industrial instrumentation and […]
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Sustainability Design Challenge
Published: September 29, 2026, 10:38 am
element14, has launched a smart sustainability design challenge inviting engineers, makers and technology enthusiasts to design and build innovative projects focused on recycling, waste reduction and environmental sustainability. The challenge […]
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