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The latest in the series from the team behind OEMSecrets, which powers our EW-Compare component price comparison system, considers power supplies and parts from Weidmüller and Traco Power. Power supply design has always been a bit of a topic – long-term followers of the OEMsecrets article series know that repairing TMI usually starts out with power supply trouble. Due to that, buying ...

Here's a collection of some useful IoT tips for PCB designers, brought to you by the team at SamacSys.

Julian Nolan of Iprova explains how AI could affect electronics and how electronic engineers can take advantage to innovate.

We surveyed Electronics Weekly readers about display choices in the design process and product development.

When the Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced the Raspberry Pi Three, many a developer was fascinated by the integrated Wi-Fi module.

Software’s role in creating new business models around IoT hardware, with the use of snaps

The marketing of driverless cars is way ahead of their regulation, and that’s a driving hazard. Most technology predictions are harmless because they don’t affect they way we live but, with driverless cars it’s different. Because of all the publicity, it seems that some people have come to believe that driverless cars are safe. Californians post videos of themselves sitting ...

Richard Wilson reveals the UK’s secret reward for photonics. A largely hidden manufacturing industry contributes £12.9bn per year to the UK economy: the development and manufacturing of photonics systems, for industrial, communications and consumer applications to manipulate and detect light. The big application is detecting light as it passes through optical fibres. Early research by BT ensured that the UK ...

The latest Raspberry Pi can best be summed up by the old adage of more of the same, writes consultant Tam Hanna.

Developments in AI are taking much longer than we thought and the House of Lords acknowledges this. The  Lords, as it so often does, has produced a sensible report, this one on artificial intelligence. Wisely, it doesn’t get into the technology or forecasts for the technology – the West Coast techies have made that mistake before. Instead, the UK’s upper ...