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Just this useful guide to Raspbian and other Raspberry Pi software. Downloadable from Eltechs, this guide contains information which will beinteresting for both new-starters and advanced Raspberry Pi (or other ARM and IoT) users and developers. Raspbian is the main and basic software for Raspberry Pi devices, officially supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It is an operating system, based ...

Schurter has extended its relationship with Polish distributor Transfer Multisort Elektronik (TME) to the status of a global distributor. TME has currently 10 subsidiaries in Europe and Asia. While the distributor’s focus in 2017 was on the African continent and the Middle East, new subsidiaries in the US, India and Australia will come to the fore in 2018. Investments are ...

Despite the fact that the RE-D Guide was published on 19th May last year, the intermediary trade respectively distribution of ‘grey zone products’ continues to be left out in the cold. That is due to the continued lack of clear regulation for these products from the area of electronic components and systems, writes Jens Dorwarth, chairman of the work group ...

These are the four top-selling Raspberry Pi add-on boards, according to Farnell element 14. Cameras: At just 25mm x 35mm x 9mm, the official Raspberry Pi camera modules from Farnell element14 are used in applications including low-light photography (NoIR Camera), drones and CCTV. An example project is a security camera that is able to differentiate between a stranger in the yard ...

RS Components has worked with Cypress Semiconductor and MikroElektronika to offer a prototyping kit for Cypress’ PSoC 6 microcontrollers. Called the Clicker 2 development kit, it will be marketed exclusively through RS. The board contains a PSoC 63 Connectivity Line device, which is Bluetooth 5 compliant. Two separate mikroBUS interface headers support expansion using MikroElektronika click boards, providing functions such ...

Sussex-based contract manufacturer, Wilson Process Systems (WPS) has received a Grade ‘A’ supplier certificate from lighting manufacturer Feilo Sylvania. Feilo Sylvania has a broad mix of product types and with short lead-times which requires the manufacturer to adapt production at short notice. This is what WPS has achieved. Manuel Panzera, sourcing manager at Feilo Sylvania, writes: “Wilson Process Systems has ...

Arrow Electronics is working with Microsoft to provide its customers with new hardware, software and services support for IoT sensor node designs. An integrated bundle of IoT sensors, software, applications, and services featuring IoT technologies from Microsoft, SensiEDGE and Arrow Electronics. An IoT sensor node designed by SensiEDGE uses embedded processing, sensors, and wireless technologies, collects environmental data such as ...

Smiths Interconnect has recognised its top-performing distributors in Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA). The three winners were: TTI Europe for absolute growth, Radion Engineering for relative growth and Aerco for its design-in activity. Giuseppe Lancella, vice president global distribution at Smiths Interconnect, writes: “Through these awards we encourage our partners to continue to work with us as an integral part of our ...

Farnell element14 is stocking the LDH400P Electronic Load from Aim TTi, which are suitable for testing and characterising DC power sources such as PFCs, batteries, solar cells and electronic power supply units. The electronics loads have a voltage/current range (10 to 500V and 0 to 16A), multiple operating modes and built-in transient generators which make them useful in the design ...

Amplicon’s product development plans for 2018 include the introduction of new Industrial computers every month. The first release is the Impact-R 156/157, a Mini-ITX embedded computer based on the Intel Q170 chipset, delivering support for both 6th and 7th generation Intel Core processors as well as offering increased bandwidth and functional expansion. The Mini-ITX embedded computer has 4Gbyte pre-installed DDR4 ...