This week we’re happy to introduce a new Genuino Reseller from Canada with Julie Gendron of RobotShop!
- Tell us a bit more about RobotShop
At RobotShop, we specialize in personal and professional robot technology and offer a wide range of robotic products and services in this sector. We have offices in USA, Canada and France. Our vision is to be the world leading source for personal and professional robot technology that help increase the pleasure, knowledge, liberty and security of individuals. We are also committed to promoting and advocating the interest and necessity of robotics use towards positive ends, allowing humanity to attain a better world.
- What’s your company’s super power
Putting robotics at your service!
- What’s your favourite Arduino or Genuino project?
We enjoy Arduino robots and projects from beginners that are starting in robotics. For example this Arduino robot from a beginner on the Let’s Make Robots Blog and forum. We like it because it represents the Arduino and Genuino brand well with a simple and fun “do it yourself” / hobbyist project. This is the meaning of Arduino; for anyone to be able to build a robot or interactive project easily. This is why we help the way we can, by providing Arduino tutorials that can help beginners as well as more advanced Arduino users.
Contacts
RobotShop Store Website Canada – Facebook – Twitter – Google+
Vodafone suffered an outage which knocked out part of its landline network across New Zealand for around 5- hours. Click here for more.
Plans for a merger between two of India's larger mobile networks have been revamped, according to local reports. Click here for more.
The growing popularity of smartwatches, fitness monitors and other wearable applications is driving up shipments of the displays used in these devices, from 34 million units in 2015 to 39 million in 2016. Click here for more.
Telefonica has selected Ericsson as one of the main global partners in their cloud-based virtualization project, known as UNICA. Click here for more.
Four virtual network operators have formed a trade alliance to seek a stronger bargaining position with their joint airtime provider. Click here for more.
Ericsson has been selected by 3 Italia to transform its mobile IP backbone network. Click here for more.
An Indian court has upheld plans by the telecoms regulator to force mobile networks to offer compensation to customers when their network drops a call. Click here for more.
Ericsson, via its global business and technology partnership with Cisco formed in November 2015, has been selected for the Vodafone Portugal Mobile Backhaul Evolution. Click here for more.
Research from Concordia University in Montreal shows that mobile technologies like tablets and smartphones can go a long way in helping people with ID face these challenges. Click here for more.
A new app-usage finding, conducted through millions of Opera Max users, shows that on average over 30% of all data is used by apps running in the background. Click here for more.
Ericsson has deployed a complete network functions virtualization (NFV) solution to the core network of Caribbean operator Digicel. Click here for more.
Nearly 350 million smartphones shipped in 2015 supported LTE Carrier Aggregation (CA), representing 23% of total smartphone shipments for the year, Click here for more.
With sub-US$50 smartphones on the way, rapid improvements to telecom infrastructure, and the availability of affordable cloud applications, the mobile Internet is rapidly transforming the way that Nigeria does business. Click here for more.
Ericsson, Orange and Intel have completed one of the first live trials of EC-GSM-IoT technology for Internet of Things optimized for, low-cost, low-complexity devices Click here for more.
High-performing apps see average message center read rates of 44%, increasing to 49% for retail apps, meaning nearly half of all messages sent are opened and read. Click here for more.
Ericsson 5G Radio Prototypes are currently delivering more than 12Gbps mobile experience per user, in live networking environments with downlink throughput of more than 25Gbps using MU-MIMO. Click here for more.
Overall satisfaction with the wireless purchase process has risen to a record high, despite a rise in the cost of smartphones and the cutback in device subsidies by wireless carriers, Click here for more.
The personal information of millions of smartphone users is at risk due to in-app advertising that can leak potentially sensitive user information between ad networks and mobile app developers, Click here for more.
Tigo Tanzania has announced that customers of its Tigo Pesa mobile money service will now be able to move funds between any of the country's mobile money operators, Click here for more.
In the last quarter of 2015 over 14 million tablets were shipped to Western Europe as the market volume declined 10.1% YoY. Click here for more.
Ericsson has successfully executed a large-scale cloud transformation project with SoftBank, one of Japan's leading mobile operators. Click here for more.
Israel's Partner Communications is dropping the Orange brandname, which is has licensed from France Telecom since it was set up in 1999. Click here for more.
Vodafone Group is partnering with Ericsson and a number of other partners to research 5G technologies and prepare its networks for a transition towards the new mobile standard. Click here for more.
Americans were plagued by an estimated 2.3 billion robocalls in the month of January, marking a 54.7% month-over-month increase in the number of robocalls received, Click here for more.
“Bees in the Backyard” is a citizen science technology project to investigate the nesting behavior of Mason bees, created by Mike Teachman, amateur bee enthusiast and Paul Perrault senior field applications engineer.
Mason bees are somewhat unique because, unlike honeybees, they are solitary, every female is fertile, there are no worker bees, they carry pollen on their bellies, they nest in holes and are vital to pollination of many fruit trees.
The idea behind the project was to turn each bee’s entire nest into a capacitive sensor with the use of off-the-shelf open source hardware like Arduino Uno:
Following the innovative work of the UPEI in using non-invasive capacitance sensors to detect bees entering and exiting a hive, we decided to extend this study to determine if we could measure not just a bee moving past an opening in a hive, but actually measure bee activity, along with a sense of their deliveries. This involved the invention of a new type of non-invasive sensor, along with the development of a measurement system that would be used to gather large amounts of data.
The plan for the team for 2016 is to improve the project deploying an improved monitoring system at the same site and in particular:
• Develop a new capacitance sensor tube with increased accuracy
• Improve the visual appeal of nesting block and associated electronics
• Develop algorithms to mine the measurement dataset for bee activity patterns
Watch other videos on this youtube channel and read more about the project on Spectrum IEEE.
France's telecoms regulator, Arcep is launching its first observatory for monitoring mobile operators' deployments in sparsely populated areas. Click here for more.
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Ericsson, Tencent and Hong Kong's SmarTone are collaborating to optimize the Hong Kong operator's mobile network for performance of WeChat, a social networking app Click here for more.
Samsung says that its mobile payments service, Samsung Pay has reached a global milestone - about five million registered users processed over 500 million dollars in the first six months, Click here for more.
Ericsson has been selected by Idea Cellular, the 3rd largest mobile services operator in India, with over 170 million subscribers, to deploy a 4G/LTE network Click here for more.
China's MVNOs recorded 10x growth in subscriber numbers in 2015, though their 20 million strong customer base still suffers from marginal usage profiles and low spend, Click here for more.
Trojan 77 is a gamified simulation of the Trojan virus running on Arduino Uno. The Trojan is a malware designed to provide unauthorised remote access to a user’s computer amongst other harmful possibilities and this prototype was designed to be exhibited at a technology museum to show the most important effects the virus. Inspired by the tilting labyrinth game, the prototype simulates a few key effects of the Trojan virus like passwords leaking out, files being deleted and culminating in a system crash.
Trojan 77 was created by a team of Physical Computing students (Dhrux Saxena, Gunes Kantaroglu, Liliana Lambriev, Karan Chaitanya Mudgal) at CIID:
The idea of designing something analog to explain a digital construct was an exciting challenge to undertake. The way that computer viruses operate can be very complicated and hard to explain without overloading people with detailed information. Making this information visual via animated projections helped to communicate the effects in a fun and memorable way.
The Trojan moved through several prototyping stages. Initially, the wooden structure was built, followed by the maze. The structure as a whole became functional with the addition of Arduino and Processing. Two servo motors controlled by a joystick enabled the tilt while the movement of the ball triggered distinct light sensors which in turn triggered events in a Processing sketch mapped onto the maze.
The students created also a great video documentary to explain the project with a style inspired by the work of Charles and Ray Eames:
In 2015, cybercriminals continued to send out fake emails from mobile devices and notifications from mobile apps containing malware or advertising messages. Click here for more.
By 2020, there will be more than five connected devices per person totaling 150 million connected things in the Nordics. Digitalization and new IoT ecosystems, spearheaded by connected cars, are fuelling growth - and this is just the very beginning. Click here for more.
This was their slowest growth rate since 2008. In 2015 as a whole, smartphone sales reached 1.4 billion units, an increase of 14.4 percent from 2014. Click here for more.
Singtel and Ericsson have announced their partnership to ready Singtel's 4G LTE network to support the expected rapid growth of connected devices. Click here for more.