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EE Times Magazine – September 2026
Published: September 4, 2026, 10:40 pm
The September 2026 edition of EE Times Magazine examines how smarter buildings combine ambient energy harvesting, sensing, AI, and connected systems to improve safety while protecting privacy.
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When the Package Becomes an Electrical Design Variable
Published: September 4, 2026, 7:50 am
AI power integrity now lives inside the package, not just the PCB. Treat chip, package, and board as one PDN.
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7 Steps to Take Now: Meet the EU CRA 9/11/26 Reporting Deadline
Published: September 3, 2026, 4:31 pm
Prepare for the EU Cyber Resilience Act's September 2026 reporting deadline; follow these seven steps to ensure compliance and readiness.
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TechWorks Aligns U.K. Semiconductors Under UKSIA Umbrella
Published: September 3, 2026, 1:46 pm
TechWorks corrals U.K. chip groups under UKSIA as funding surges 65% and 700 execs swarm London.
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Display Developments Challenge Controllers
Published: September 3, 2026, 1:00 pm
Discover how AMOLED, micro-OLED and advanced DDIC technologies are transforming displays with higher resolution, lower power and immersive experiences.
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Hackaday News
WordStar Lives Again (and Again)
Published: September 6, 2026, 8:00 am
Word processors and editors are a funny thing. It doesn’t really matter what’s “best,” whatever that means. If you have finger memory built up for one program, it’s painful to …read more
There’s Whole Computer Inside This Mouse
Published: September 6, 2026, 5:00 am
[Gadget Industry] bills it as “a PC inside a Mouse“, but that depends on your definition of a “PC”. This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there’s …read more
Can AI Now Design PCBs That Just Work?
Published: September 6, 2026, 2:00 am
With the recent release of its GPT-6 Astra model, OpenAI explicitly pushed the claim that it is capable of designing complete circuit boards in KiCad, starting from a provided schematic …read more
Running Apple ][ Software on a Commodore 64 — Silently
Published: September 5, 2026, 11:00 pm
The computer business in 1984 was a bizarre mix of hobby-level companies, a few small companies that had made it big, and a lot of big companies starting to take …read more
Pixel Watch 5 Demonstrates Good Repairability
Published: September 5, 2026, 8:00 pm
Although we often find ourselves drowning in a seemingly unending sea of portable devices that are effectively e-waste once an internal component gives out, it’s good to remind ourselves that …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Developing Safer Alternatives to Lithium Batteries
Published: September 5, 2026, 8:00 pm
Researchers Andong Liu (left) and Dian-Zhao Lin perform experiments in Yayuan Liu’s battery lab. CREDIT: WILL KIRK / JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY via Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University and the Toyota Research Institute have teamed up to research and develop better batteries. Utilizing new AI tools, the researchers tested combinations to determine what will work […]
New Products 09/05/2026
Published: September 5, 2026, 7:00 pm
We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here This week we debuted 1 New Product. Adafruit TMF8806 Time of Flight Distance Sensor – 10mm to 5m – STEMMA QT / Qwiic Visit www.adafruit.com/new for more info.
The Business Card That Lights Up Without Batteries
Published: September 5, 2026, 5:07 pm
Kevin Tang made this circuit board business card with an NFC chip and LEDs. One nifty trick of the card is that it’s battery-less; when tapped to a phone, in addition to sharing your info, the card will draw power and light up the LEDs! Here’s what’s actually happening, and it took me a […]
Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 oscilloscope
Published: September 5, 2026, 1:30 pm
A Tektronix TDS7104 oscilloscope picked up for $300 at the Silicon Valley Flea Market was the starting point for a detailed refurbishment. The scope is a 4-channel, 1 GHz instrument with a 10 Gs/s maximum sample rate on one channel, running Windows 2000 Pro Embedded on a RadiSys NLX motherboard with an 850 MHz Celeron. […]
Halloween Costume Detector #Raspberry Pi
Published: September 4, 2026, 8:00 pm
Build a wise cracking skull to MC your Halloween costume party. This project uses a Raspberry Pi 5 paired with a NoIR PiCamera and speaker bonnet. The Pi runs a Python script with OpenCV person detection. When a person crosses paths with the skull, a picture is sent to Claude with a prompt requesting a […]
Electronics Weekly News
iSpace leading ESA’s first lunar polar ice exploration rover mission
Published: September 4, 2026, 4:14 pm
iSpace-Europe and the European Space Agency (ESA) have officially agreed the MAGPIE mission, Europe’s first lunar polar ice exploration rover. MAGPIE stands for the “Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar […]
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Open Cosmos becomes approved provider for UK sovereign comms
Published: September 4, 2026, 2:12 pm
Open Cosmos, the Harwell, Oxfordshire-based company, has been selected as an approved supplier – via the UK’s Government Commercial Agency (GCA) – to provide satellite connectivity through its low Earth […]
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Staccato UWB
Published: September 4, 2026, 1:02 pm
19 years ago, as now, UWB looked like a pronising technology. ‘Staccato Communications, an Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless technology pioneer and Wireless USB leader, today announced that its Ripcord SC3500 […]
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What caught your eye? Chip design, Nvidia Hugging Face, pureLiFi
Published: September 4, 2026, 10:32 am
What caught our eye this last week? A new business model for AI-based chip design, the sheer craziness of AI's circular financing, and Edinburgh's pureLiFi going into administration...
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Midas Displays partners with CLAF to widen range of power supplies
Published: September 4, 2026, 9:17 am
Midas Displays, the display specialist based in Great Yarmouth, is partnering with CLAF Guangzhou Science and Technology, for the latter’s range of power supply systems. CLAF “We’re excited to add […]
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