A designer has made use of the camera on a Raspberry Pi computer module to create an internet-connected photo booth which can link to a smartphone. Flask, the webserver module is combined with Flask-Socketio to provide a web interface and controller that accesses the Raspberry Pi camera. Using the GPIO pins to control a relay module hooked up to two strip ...
Embedded Systems
EnSilica goes multi-core for comms stacks
EnSilica has launched an asymmetric multicore processor for executing wireless communication stacks. Called eSI-32x0MP, in dual-core configuration “One processor is optimised for implementing physical [PHY] layer processing and the second core is optimised for running an advanced protocol stack,” said EnSilica. “The eSi-32x0MP is ideal for implementing low-power Wi-Fi and wireless/cellular IoT standards such as LTE Cat-0,” said EnSilica CEO ...
ARM tools reduce design months to days
ARM’s has come up with a tooling suite which claims to enable SoC designers to configure, create and assemble IP-based systems over the course of days rather than months. The suite comprises Socrates DE, CoreSight Creator and CoreLink Creator. Additionally, CoreLink Creator will configure and help implement the CoreLink NIC-450 Network Interconnect, the follow-on to CoreLink NIC-400. The new suite ...
Radar probes through 2 miles of Antarctic ice
The Antarctic continent is covered by an ice sheet up to three miles thick. The ice flows towards the sea under its own weight, finally going afloat to create large ice shelves that extend out over the continental shelf. At an ice shelf’s seaward edge, tabular icebergs regularly calve off and drift out into the Southern Ocean, where they fragment ...
Developer turns Arduino into a frequency synthesiser
Tsunami is a signal generator built on the Arduino platform. It is the brainchild of London-based developer Nick Johnson at Arachnid Labs and has secured funding on Kickstarter for its commercial launch. It can be pre-ordered for $60. The design is based on the Arduino Leonardo compatible ATMega32U4 microcontroller module and this is combined with a direct digital synthesis (DDS) chip, ...
Scottish conference to discuss software security
The development of safe and secure software for car electronics is the subject of a Scottish technology conference which will be held in June. The Scottish Device Developers’ Conference, taking place at Uphall on 4th June will include a number of workshops and presentations that explore the development of software for computer based systems that require absolute stability and security. ...
Imagination presents a universal SoC security shield
Imagination Technologies has introduced a ubiquitous security technology for SoCs called OmniShield.
Ten core ARM boosts batteries in fastest phones
MediaTek has a 10 core phone processor in the pipeline. Called Helio X20, it has one cluster of two 2.5GHz ARM Cortex-A72 cores for top-end performance (games and video recording, for example), one cluster of four 2GHz Cortex-A53 cores for medium loads, and one cluster of four 1.4GHz Cortex-A53 cores for light loads. “Dividing the cores into three clusters provides a more ...
Imagination redesigns microcomputer for better Wi-Fi
Imagination Technologies has redesigned its MIPS-based microcomputer called Creator CI20. A new board layout has improved the RF performance of the Wi-Fi element. The processor company has also come up with a 3D printable enclosure. This will be available to makers as source files available from the firm’s website. There are also new software additions: FlowCloud is an IoT API ...
Raspberry Pi meets IoT with solar powered camera
This design of a wireless camera module works on ‘its own’ power without being connected to the electricity mains. Based on a Raspberry Pi, it is a solar-powered radio beacon which transmits signals in regular intervals including live images taken by a small camera. Since the device will transmit using a simple radio, no wired or cellular coverage is needed, ...