Here are seven tactics OEMs and manufacturers can implement to bolster their customers’ security posture and mitigate risks posed by emerging IoT devices.
from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/2840b0b
mercredi 1 juin 2016
Togglit is a DIY automation kit for your home
A few years ago, Integreight set out to turn your smartphone into more than 40 different Arduino shields. Now, the creators of the 1Sheeld have launched an open-source, fully-customizable home automation kit that will enable you to control your door locks, light switches and power strips using that very same mobile device.
“Togglit” can be assembled without any programming, wires, or hassle — only a screwdriver. For its debut at Maker Faire Bay Area, the connected interface was based on an Arduino Uno and 1Sheeld; however, the startup’s founder Amr Saleh notes that it can run on virtually any hardware platform, ranging from Raspberry Pi to other Wi-Fi products.
At the moment, Togglit is compatible with typical toggle light switches, standard deadbolts, as well as American and European power outlets. Ready to make your house smarter? The DIY kit is currently available for pre-order.
from Arduino Blog http://bit.ly/1r2Z3bp
New Solar Cell Taps Heat and Sunlight
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently invented a solar cell that exploits both light and heat, making it vastly more efficient at generating electricity.
from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1P6lOBv
Electronic Design’s Products of the Week (5/29-6/4)
Whether you're looking for development tools or SRAM memory chips, Electronic Design has you covered. We've rounded up some of the latest products to help optimize your applications, devices, and systems.
from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1WYP3Oh
Get the party started with these coke bottle lights
With school just about out for the summer, Brian Fitzgerald’s son was throwing a party to celebrate the end of exam week. Like any cool Maker dad would, he decided to build awesome lights made out of a few old soda bottles, the “gooey innards” of glow sticks, and some other supplies he had lying around the basement.
Fitzgerald used a wooden plate for the base and a playground post bracket for the mount, along with an Arduino Leonardo (though any Arduino would do) and three NeoPixel rings for the colorful effects.
Fill the Coke bottles with water. Alternatively, you can add a drop of milk to get a cloudy effect — it makes the liquid translucent and gives the impression of solid light, but you loose the little bubble and scratch effects that clear water highlights, which we thought was cooler. We put a black Sugru cap on the bottles to avoid a drunken accident involving water and electronics. And filled the countersunk bolt holes with Sugru to hide the bolt heads as well.
I attached the plastic Arduino casing with double-sided velcro to the base unit for easy removal. It’d look nicer if I’d put the whole unit inside the base, but as we’re planning to pull the board out and modify for music sensitivity, I opted for convenience over beauty. If anybody has any cool Arduino code that gets an Adafruit auto-gain mic and NeoPixels jamming via FFT, I’d love to see it. There are some great color organ projects out there, but I can’t seem to find this particular combo. So we may have to write it ourselves!
Plug the 9v wall wart into the Arduino and BOOM. You got yourself a classic party light that’s mesmerizing to look at, throws patterns on the ceiling that look like Hubble images of distant nebulae, a fine conversation piece, and a bunch of cast off junk transformed into a thing of beauty.
Intrigued? You can check out the entire project on Instructables, as well as see it in action below.
from Arduino Blog http://bit.ly/1O5jMqj
Q&A: Analytics-Driven Embedded Systems
Electronic Design’s Bill Wong talked to Paul Pilotte of MathWorks about driving embedded systems with analytics to further streamline data processing.
from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1P5kdM8
3-in-1 Arbitrary Waveform Generator Joins IoT Fray
If a product debuted in 2016 and it didn’t have a tie to the Internet of Things, did it ever really debut? This variation of the tree falling in the woods...
from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1Y2Asku
Bluetooth Tries Working Smarter, Not Harder
Major chipmakers are increasingly fusing processors and wireless components based on the low-power version of Bluetooth.
from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1UuhIr0
Low-Power MCUs Tackle Industrial Sensing/Measurement
Microcontrollers in industrial settings must combine high performance, low power consumption, a flexible feature set, and a powerful software-development ecosystem, as evidenced in TI's MSP43x family.
from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1XgeyLC
Singapore Increases Minimum Coverage Standards for 4G Networks
Singapore's telecoms regulator has issued new rules covering the minimum coverage allowed for 4G networks. Click here for more.
from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1UtHiML
UAE to Impose Cap on Mobile Data Charges
The UAE's telecoms regulator has ordered the country's two mobile networks to impose a cap on mobile data bundles to prevent customers being hit by unexpectedly high bills. Click here for more.
from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1TPHxop
New Challenges as Encryption Eliminates 60% of the Video Optimization Market
Revelations of Internet spying, and content vendors worried about quality, drive the industry toward end-to-end encryption of data traffic. Click here for more.
from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1TWQ7ij
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