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The three-year “eRamp” project, led by Infineon Technologies, has been launched to strengthen and expand Germany and Europe as centres of expertise for the manufacture of power electronics. Focused on energy efficiency, 26 research partners from six countries are participating in the €55m project.

RS Components has signed an exclusive agreement with Red Pitaya, a new contender in the test and measurement arena, to distribute the fledgling company’s first ground-breaking product: a single board, open instrumentation and control platform which replaces many expensive laboratory instruments at a price tag of less than $500.

VOICE, the annual developer conference hosted by Advantest, will continue its tradition of offering a dynamic technical program in 2014 with a record number of papers presented in two locations – May 12-13 in Silicon Valley, California at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, and May 15-16 in Austin, Texas at the Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin Downtown.

A single board embedded PC with around four times the processing power of the Raspberry Pi is now exclusively available from its UK distributor Rapid Electronics. The UDOO features a quad core ARM i.MX6 Freescale CPU processor which runs at 1GHz and packs 1GB of DDR3 RAM.

UKAS accreditedTRaC Global, a leading testing and certification group, will be heading to Manchester to kick off its 2014 spring road show. As more companies look to overseas sales to stimulate growth, the focus will be on the challenges of meeting the different regulations to export products.

Motiv8 Solutions is building a strong seminar programme for its LED and Lighting Design Forum on March 25 at the Williams F1 Conference Centre near Oxford. Speakers already confirmed will address LED drivers, design support tools for power management, LED lifetimes and reliability and LED driver EMI considerations. In the bench top exhibition alongside the Forum a strong line up of suppliers and distributors will field LED lighting applications e...

Ben continues his work to create the OUYA portable his viewers challenged him to build. In this part of the process, he opens the controller to see how he can mod it for his device. After deciding on a plan, he builds the controls for his device from the hacked OUYA controller. Now that the electronics are ready, he can get to work designing a cool case.

Ben has been challenged by many viewers to make the OUYA into a Heck-style portable gaming device. For the first part of the project, Ben mods an LCD and the OUYA to be as thin as possible. After removing any unneeded components, he works to wire up the HDMI and get the screen and OUYA working as one. He'll sketch-up an idea for how the project will come together in the next episode before calling it a day.

This year’s programme of Motiv8 forums will kick off on March 25 covering the hot topic of LED & Lighting Design. The free one-day forum will feature both expert technical presentations and an accompanying bench top exhibition with relevant suppliers including distributors and semiconductor suppliers.

Eaton announce that it has recently installed aMedium Voltage system for a new hospital in The Netherlands. The largest non-academic hospital in The Netherlands at108,000m2, Isala Klinieken uses Eaton’s MV switchgear alongside a Power System Automation (PSA) solution to ensure a secure electrical energy supply for the complex.