Distribution World

Avnet Abacus has picked up a European distributor of the year award from connector supplier Molex. According to Henry Fuerniss, vice president sales and marketing EMEA, Molex, the distributor has played a key role in the connector firm’s European business growth. “Their team in Europe contributed to significant revenue growth for both companies,” said Fuerniss. The award is based on ...

Python may be the programming language of choice at universities like MIT and Imperial College London, but it is also a tool trusted by seasoned professionals, writes Jordan Bach If you’re new to programming, Python is a great first language. It has a gentle learning curve, which enables you to experience the joys of programming early and often. Python’s clear ...

A small circular display module with touch interface for wearables comes with an Android software development kit for the WaRP7 development platform. Farnell element14 is selling the WaRP7 LCD module. It is a standard MIPI display with display serial and I2C interfaces. The round screen has an active area diameter of 31.9 mm with 320 RGB × 320 dots resolution ...

You may have seen the ingenious Pi Cart which fits a Raspberry Pi powered gaming console in an NES cartridge. Now a developer has gone one stage further and squeezed a Raspberry Pi gaming console into the even smaller Nintendo SNES cartridge. It is the idea of maker/developers at GroupGet and they have posted the design project on Hackster. A ...

Planet Computers, the London-based company bidding to create a “Psion-like” palm computer, is moving closer toward a commercial product. It is expected to launch in December. The development firm, which is supported by Arrow Electronics as a business incubator, raised $680,000 earlier this year in a crowdfunding campaign on the Indiegogo website, which is being used to finance the commercial ...

French developer is looking for support amongst the Arduino community for his crowd-funding project – an Arduino compatible high precision frequency counter. Thierry Guennou, writes: “The concept of this board is to build an open, very versatile frequency counter, so it can be used to measure a wide variety of signals.” Built around an AVR microcontroller Atmega328p-AU, the Freq_LF_HF v1.0 ...

Arrow Electronics is selling the ARM Cortex-M4 based IoT system-on-module from Israeli start-up SensiEDGE. This is a small module measuring 20mm x 30mm form factor. Dubbed the SensiBLE IoT SoM, it offers Bluetooth 4.1 low energy connectivity and sensors for pressure, temperature, ambient light and humidity plus a 3-axis accelerometer, magnetometer and digital gyroscope. The distributor will support the product ...

Anglia Components has been named UK distributor of the year in 2016 by Panasonic. The award recognised the Wisbech-based distributor’s design activities and inventory investment as well as sales performance. Max Jakob, Panasonic distribution sales director for EMEA, said: “Our distributors are a vital part of Panasonic and Anglia have successfully proven their ability and delivered a great performance in ...

The open source design platform from TinyCircuits, which includes the TinyDuino, is now being sold by Digi-Key Electronics, following a distribution agreement between the two companies. TinyCircuits platforms are aimed at the maker market but are also used by university students. The core product is an Arduino-compatible platform. Called TinyDuino it uses electronic building blocks for adding functions, like GPS, ...

The European semiconductor industry is having a good year. Latest figures from industry association DMASS indicate that the chip market shows no signs of slowdown in Q2/2017. According to DMASS, semiconductor sales as reported by the members ended with another record of €2.19bn, an increase of 17.3% over the corresponding quarter last year. However, the UK joined France as the ...