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Smart city hardware: $1.7 trillion market ahead
The giant investors SpaceX, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Baidu, Toyota, Tesla, Hyundai, VW, LG, Apple and Virgin are involved in smart city hardware in ways you would not expect. Their involvement spans making complete smart cities from scratch to robot shuttles replacing ten types of vehicle, vertical take-off taxis, Hyperloop, vertical farming, battery elimination, solar and sensor everything and structural electronics.
What materials can bring the Hyperloop into reality?
Imagine being able to take a trip from New York to Washington, or from Amsterdam to Düsseldorf in 30 minutes? With the hyperloop, transportation might become so fast that no distance would ever be a problem. Here, Samir Jaber, content writer at materials database Matmatch, has given more insights about this futuristic transportation from a materials science perspective.
A day in the Digi-Key warehouse
Every day in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, you’ll see planes continually taking off from the tiny regional airport near Digi-Key’s headquarters. More often than not, those planes are carrying a portion of the 20,000 packages that Digi-Key sends to over 8,000 customers around the world in a single day. By Chris Lauer, Vice President of Order Fulfilment, Digi-Key Electronics
hyperMILL CAM software aids NASA's knowledge quest
OPEN MIND Technologies has announced that Ramco Machine is helping to impact the future of space exploration by using hyperMILL CAM software and five-axis machining to make parts for an advanced NASA satellite mission.
The new space race is an agile odyssey
Space is back in style. Literally. Fromnew space suits for the first space tourists, tolimited-edition NASA bomber jackets, the space market is seeing a renaissance of interest. And with it comes a new infusion of startups and tech revolutionising this industry. Guest blog written byAndreea Volosincu, Wind River.
Apollo 11: A future in space, thanks to our past
A chorus of alarms serenaded the nervous astronauts as theEaglelunar module descended toward the moon’s surface. The tension was palpable, and the shrill ringing only added to their worries. Guest blog written byRanjan Sikand, Wind River Intern.
Three factors that have changed the satellite industry forever
Multi-national corporations and startups alike have begun to tackle the emerging sector of commercial spacecraft. Known as 'new space,' it is the sector where companies are introducing new designs that propel them to the forefront of technological advancement, in areas such as 5G networking and imaging. Guest blog written byWind River Intern Ranjan Sikand.
The time u-blox took a trip to space
For a few seconds, everyone at the SwissTech Convention Center (EPFL) held their breath as the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ofSpaceflight SSO‑A: SmallSat Express missiontook off towards low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC‑4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA.The rocket’s payload included aCubeSat nanosatellite designed byAstrocast, a prototype to test the 64‑satellite constellation the Swiss company intends to s...
SpaceX Hyperloop challenge gains victory by going 50% faster
Nicomatic has announced that the WARR Hyperloop Team from the Technische Universität of Munich (TUM) has won the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition by going almost 50% faster than in 2017, achieving a final speed of 467km/h. Nicomatic is the team’s only connector sponsor and Nicomatic’s micro-connectors contributed to this success by delivering reliable performance under challenging race conditions, while minimising space and ...
That's a wrap from electronica 2018
At this year’s electronica show there was a clear theme running throughout all the halls, artificial intelligence (AI). Speaking to a lot of companies at the show it was clear that people had moved on from the cyber-security buzz to the AI buzz.Peter Müller, Director Product Line Boards & Modules at Kontron said: “In the past AI was only possible in the cloud, but now it is possible in edge computing.”