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Brexit worries stifle manufacturers international growth plans
According to new figures, concerns over Brexit is stifling UK SME manufacturers' export growth as the sector focuses on stabilising its current position. The latest national Manufacturing Barometer reveals manufacturers' fears over ongoing Brexit uncertainty, highlighting that their attention must be on consolidation, especially as they also anticipate an overall slowdown in increased sales coupled with a struggle to recruit more staff in the sho...
Celebrating 20 years of Bluetooth with Talk Franchise launch
As the first brand to introduce Bluetooth headsets to the world, Jabra pays tribute to the 20th year anniversary of this technology by relaunching the Jabra Bluetooth Mono headsets under the Talk Franchise umbrella.Since 1998, Bluetooth has been a key driver for wireless experiences for both business professionals and consumers - a technology underpinning numerous product launches.
Bringing 3.5” HMI display shield venture to life
Bridgetek’s Embedded Video Engine (EVE) technology continues to gain traction within the global open source community, as well as with larger OEMs. The highly integrated graphics controller devices - which are able to take care of the display, touch and audio aspects of modern human machine interfaces (HMIs) - are featuring in a growing number of products being developed by small start-ups.
CRL's latest batch of aspiring companies to take on the world
Last week saw Mark Patrick visiting London, to once again tap into the buzz of enthusiasm that is currently being generated by the capital’s thriving start-up community.This time it was for the latest Central Research Laboratory (CRL)Demo Day - where the organisation showcased the cohort of tech business ventures that have just recently completed the widely celebrated accelerator program. Guest blog written by Mark Patrick, Mouser Electro...
Major rail engineering research projects bring innovative solutions
It has been announced that RAIL Researchers at the University of Huddersfield have taken part in a £16m European project designed to find ways of boosting the capacity, reliability and cost effectiveness of Europe’s railways.
Thirty IIoT solutions through 'Co-creation Model' announced
Advantech has announced the co-creation of IoT Solution Ready Packages (SRPs), which has involved co-creating with various domestic and international companies. Thirty sets of SRPs will be officially released this year, and Advantech will hold the 6,000-participant IoT Co-Creation Summit and AIoT.
Equipment rentals helping companies to find investment capital
The current phase of the economic cycle, recovery from a slowdown, is always difficult and frustrating, as Mark Ingham of Sensor Technology identified: "Companies are seeing their markets improve, but don’t have the reserves to finance all the activities that will kickstart their sales. What money there is has to be used carefully, which usually means funding some projects but not others. As a result opportunities have to be missed.”
How to build a community for your hardware startups
The Central Research Laboratory (CRL) teamed up with Kickstarter and brought us an evening about ‘Building Community for Hardware products’. We began by hearing from Heather Corcoran, head of European design and technology outreach at Kickstarter, who explained that Kickstarter over the years hasn’t changed but the landscape around it has. She said: “There are thousands of Kickstarter projects out there, and it is such a j...
Keynote speakers for NEDME 2018 announced
The Pacific Northwest’s expo for electronics design and manufacturing, NEDME, is pleased to announce the selection of Rick Turoczy, and Duane Benson, as keynote speakers. The expo will be held on 3rd October, 2018, at Tektronix, in Beaverton, Oregon.
Status symbol elevates KiCAD library
Digi-Key Electronics has tagged the open source, Digi-Key KiCad symbol and footprint library with a 1.0 status on their GitHub Repository. The “version 1.0” is a major milestone for the library development, indicating that the library is "complete", has all major features, and is considered reliable enough for general release to engineers, designers, and customers.