While opportunity charging is a practice applicable to both Lead Acidand Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for motive power systems, fast charging is a key differentiator for Lithium-ion batteries. Because the chemistry allows fast charging without damaging cycle life, Li-ion multivoltge batteries can be charged opportunistically during breaks and don’t require battery swaps. Learn about best practices […]

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This whitepaper examines the limitations of manual cable validation processes and explores how automated testing strategies help address common engineering and manufacturing pain points. Topics include improving test repeatability, reducing operator-dependent variability, minimizing setup time, streamlining documentation, and enhancing production scalability. The paper also reviews the role of intelligent switching, automated test sequencing, digital recordkeeping, […]

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Scale-up optics will be decided by the link budget. The largest recoverable losses sit at the connector and inside the silicon photonics platform.

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The white paper introduces Keysight SOS Enterprise as an AI-ready engineering data and IP management platform designed to help semiconductor and electronics companies centrally manage, govern, and secure design data across global teams. It provides version control, IP traceability, role-based access, and audit-ready governance to ensure design integrity, improve reuse, reduce risk, and enable advanced […]

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Solar PV installations rely on ongoing monitoring to maintain energy yield, uptime and safe operation throughout their working life. This application guide explains how insulation degradation can create leakage paths between the PV circuit and earth, how insulation resistance (RISO) measurements can help identify developing faults, and why readings should be assessed in the context […]

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Old-school teletext with its pixelated text and block graphics may now be largely a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s without enthusiasts or there’s no more life …read more

A typical response to the previous article on why PLA filament is so darn brittle. This has led some people to not use PLA filament at all, while others promote …read more

If you’ve heard the high-pitched whine or buzz from an electronic device when a current-carrying inductor is vibrating, you’ll know how unpleasant it can be. It’s common in all kinds …read more

A few years ago Dyson released a desk lamp that could slide up and down, in and out, balancing itself at every position. [Steven Bennett] saw that lamp and wanted …read more

Modern heat pumps, of which air conditioners are a subset, seem like simple machines in theory. They just move heat from one place to another. But in order to operate …read more

Falstad.com hosts a long-running collection of educational applets built to help visualize concepts in math, physics, and engineering. Originally written in Java, most of them have since been converted to JavaScript, so they run in a modern browser without any Java plugin. The lineup covers wave behavior with a ripple tank that shows interference, diffraction, […]

Inspired by a Tom Scott video about “Inogon” lights, the navigation markers that use Moire patterns to steer ships through channels and harbours, the maker behind tinkerings.org decided to build one to see the effect firsthand. After a few minutes sketching in Inkscape and a few more on the laser cutter, the result was a […]

Electrolama Lab has released pt1, a compact USB multitool aimed at hardware bring-up, debugging and field work. Measuring roughly 46 × 18 mm, the board packs a USB 2.0 hub, a USB-to-UART adapter and a software-controlled USB power switch. Plug it into a host over USB-C and it adds two USB sockets, a header-accessible USB […]

Generative AI usually conjures images of data centers full of GPUs, but developer cpldcpu has squeezed an image generation model onto a $1 microcontroller. The pico-faces project runs on the RP2350 found in the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, generating 128×128 RGB images of human faces in 5 to 20 seconds each, then displaying them on a VGA […]

Debugging a microcontroller board that refuses to run can be a long road, and Steve at Big Mess o’ Wires recently documented one such journey with a batch of Floppy Emu disk emulators that failed QA at the factory. The boards showed symptoms never seen before across years of building the device: some would not […]

SpaceWERX, the U.S. Air Force space technology accelerator programme, will be investing in another 11 companies to develop innovative space technologies. Specifically, the funding will be via its Program Year […]

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Tendeg, the antenna specialist, has released NewTEN, its two-axis steerable reflector antenna for small spacecraft. It was showcased at the 40th Annual Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City. Reflector […]

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Much of the AI economy still looks suspiciously circular. Hyperscalers are  investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build AI data center using Nvidia’s chips. Nvidia partially invests its billions […]

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A new kind of transistor – the  Intrinsic Polarisation Super Junction ( iPSJ) has been invented to deal with the propensity of GaN transistors to fail at very high voltages. […]

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