Electronics For You
September 2022 Issue
Vol. 54 No. 9
Strategy
BUSINESS: Cobots Work Alongside Humans To Do Dull, Dirty, Dangerous, Dear Jobs
Human workers, who once saw industrial robots as a threat to their jobs, are now quite happy to share the space with the current generation of cobots, as these are proving to be truly cooperative, collaborative, and congenial co-workers
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Technology
TRENDS: Six Most Important Lithium-Ion Battery Chemistries Li-ion cell is one of the most important energy storage devices in today’s time. The cell has a lot of different chemistries, and the properties of these cells depend on their internal chemistry. Every single chemistry has its own pros and cons
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CIRCUIT IDEA: Automatic Streetlight Circuit Often streetlights remain on till late in the morning and are not switched on as soon as it gets dark. This circuit will automatically turn off a streetlight at dawn every morning and switch it on again at dusk each evening
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Dashboard Key Industry Trends That Can Shape The Future Of Your Business
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Truly Innovative Electronics Amongst numerous press releases of new products received by us, these are the ones we found worthy of the title Truly Innovative Electronics
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Industry News: Industry Updates • PM Modi calls for speedy self-reliance in technology • Indian army launches ‘Him Drone-a-thon’ programme • First drone pilot training school set up in Guwahati • Government’s Defence purchases from MSMEs hit record high • World Economic Forum drones to deliver medicines in Arunachal
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GROWTH: IoT Might Disrupt Lots Of Technologies For Greater Good “I believe IoT will disrupt multiple industries in the coming decade and beyond,” says Manish Kothari, Senior Vice President of Software Development at Silicon Labs. In his keynote address at the VLSI Design Conference 2022, Manish talked about the challenges and future of IoT and its potential to be one of the most disruptive technologies of this century
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Strategy
INNOVATION: Innovative Lessons From Ladakh For Rest Of The World While the world wants to indigenise high-tech, Ladakh uses simple, local technologies to solve most of the problems. From solar-powered houses to mountain-to-mountain connectivity, Ladakh shows how simple methods can achieve huge milestones. This is a story not just about sustainable but regenerative development
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CIRCUIT IDEA: Motion Activated Tap Water Flow Circuit Almost all restaurants have handwash sink for the use of their customers. Since it is used by numerous people, the tap stops working properly after some time and starts leaking, leading to wastage of water. This circuit can prevent the problem as it lets the water flow from the tap automatically only when a person comes before the sink
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Do-It-Yourself
PROJECT: A Robot That Can Dream, Recognise And Greet Visitors A first-of-its-kind robot that can recognise a human face and see dreams—like a human—can now be yours! Interested? We humans can speak, recognise feelings and emotions, and even see dreams, which makes us different from machines. But does it make us more intelligent than them? Can machines like robots also acquire this capability
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From You Your Suggestions and Things You Wanted To Know
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Technology
META: An Update On Metaverse And Cryptocurrencies According to a recent report from global market research firm Technavio, the metaverse real estate market share is expected to increase by $5.37 billion from 2021 to 2026, despite the possibility of growth momentum decelerating. They attribute this growth to the increasing popularity of mixed reality and cryptocurrency
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PROJECT: LED Dot-Matrix Scrolling Display Using STM32 Controller This project aims to display the information entered in a mobile phone on an LED dot-matrix type scrolling display. It is done by interfacing a Bluetooth HC-05 module to an LED dot-matrix display using an STM32 board
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Design
CHIPS: Power Integrity: Key To Reliable And Optimised System Design With modern-day complex multi-chipset systems, power delivery designs are becoming challenging and more critical than ever. Power integrity analysis helps us understand the impact of each component and its parasitic value on the final performance of the CPU and helps in designing an optimised system for reliable operation
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Research & Innovation Updates • Stanford’s underwater robot goes on expedition • New radar communicates, navigates, undertakes e-warfare • 3D printing used to develop octopus-inspired gloves • Machine language predictions made easy • High-resolution ultrasound imaging made convenient
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New Products • Components • Embedded Systems • T&M Instruments • Boards and Modules • Enterprise Solution
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PROJECT: Touchless Doorbell That Rings Only When Hand Is Sanitised Touching of a doorbell switch by different people can spread coronavirus and many other communicable diseases from one person to the others. So, protection from such diseases at the entrance doorbell switch is as much necessary as the use of a hand sanitiser. This project is meant to help in combating the spread of viruses and diseases that might transfer during the touching of doorbells
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INDIA: 75 @ 75: Electronics And Semiconductors The 75 important priorities for India to become Electronics and Semiconductors Nation
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FUTURE: Brain Inspired Computing: Moving From Known To The Unknown Worlds Over the last few decades technology has integrated itself into our daily lives in ways which make us totally reliant on it for our day-to-day tasks. Undoubtedly, technology has only gotten smarter. Considering the trajectory it currently follows, it is only a matter of time until it is able to mimic the way we think and perform our daily tasks. Continue reading to know more
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Design
PCB: Via Hole Types And Their Use In PCBs The importance of via holes cannot be ignored by the designers of multi-layered PCBs. This article describes various types of via holes and how they help in proper designing of the PCBs
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PROJECT: A Simple And Secure Way To Send Frequent Data Anywhere Sometimes, we need frequent sensor data transmission from one end of the world to the other for which we use online servers and services like ThingSpeak, an IoT analytics platform service that allows you to aggregate, visualise, and analyse live data streams in the cloud. Our machine might be powerful enough to send data every second, but the ultimate throughput is decided by slow data path allowed by those online servers
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Startups & Innovators • CynLr: Enabling Robotic Vision Beyond Colour And Depth • Nimaya: Robots That Are Transforming Therapy For The Autistic • RefillBot: Making Utility Management Devices Smart
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