Maybe you are aware of Fritzing already? It helps with the design of electronics hardware, creating nice visuals from your circuit diagram and helping you document your projects.

AMS has launched a NFC tag IC with industrial-grade quality, intended for high-reliability long term use. Called AS3956, it is intended to act as a contactless bridge between a microcontroller and NFC readers or NFC-equipped phones. The chip is able to operate fully powered by the RF field, without any external supply, and can supply 5mA to external loads. “This, combined ...

THz radiation can be detected by graphene FETs fabricated on a flexible polymer substrate, according to Chalmers University in Sweden. At room temperature, it detects signals from 330 to 500GHz. According to “A flexible graphene terahertz detector” in Applied Physics Letters, estimated noise equivalent power in the antenna-coupled graphene FETs at room temperature is below 3nW/√Hz at 487GHz.   A bow tie ...

The answers include the ZIP Halo for LED displays, an iPhone teardown, a hybrid tube DAC/Amp add-on for the Pi, a plant monitor, a DIY bike power meter and the Internet of Lego...

The phenomenal increase in value of the DRAM market could be coming to an end as Samsung could be about to increase production, reports DRAMeXchange. With only three manufacturers, DRAM has become something of a money generating machine – prices have risen 77% this year and the market is expected to grow 74% Why spoil a good thing? Well, first, ...

One of the interesting, and worthwhile, talks I went to at Droidcon London 2017 was 'Accessibility @ Scale', given by Mallika Potter of Pinterest.

Gaggione has added to its 45mm diameter LLC59 optics range with the colour-mixing elliptical beam LLC59E. The beam can be as narrow as 6 (+/-3)° x 31° with a 4 x 4mm light-emitting surface RGBW led, said the firm. I am not sure which led this is with. This is Gaggione’s table: LED FWHM (°) FWTM (°)  (Cd/lm) Cree XP_E2 32.3 ~ ...

Synopsys releases the 2017 Coverity Scan Report, which examines Open Source Software (OSS) quality

Farnell element14 has launched  “Maker to Market”: a range of capabilities that offer start-ups the support, expertise and resources to take their products to market. These Maker to Market services are supported by Design & Manufacturing Services which enable engineers to focus on developing the best product possible by providing support at every stage of the design and manufacturing process. ...

Renesas has announced an automotive infotainment SoC for 3D graphics displays in entry-level cars.