The new Amazon Key wants to kill traditional package delivery. Their drivers access your home with a special key and place your package inside. Compatible…
Edge Computing: Optimizing IoT Networks for Speed and Automation
Looking over a canyon rim, turning a sharp curve, and approaching an unknown frontier: the edge of a moment provokes thought and discovery. New “edge”…
“How Will You Be Paying?” — The History & Future of Mobile Payments
Walk into any Starbucks this morning and order a grande caramel latte. How do you pay? If you use the Starbucks app on your smartphone,…
Automation and Robotics: The Future of Business
At January 2015’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we saw (and discussed in a recent blog) that one indisputable technology trend is the Internet of Things.…
R9-4100 Extends Beyond Traditional ARM Applications
PRODUCT FEATURES 400MHz Atmel ARM9 Processor Dual 10/100 Base-T Ethernet 1 USB 2.0 Device and 1 USB 2.0 Host Ports 8 RS-485 Serial Ports with…
Design Feature: COM Express
COM Express, a widely supported implementation of Computer on Module (COM) design, minimizes the difficulty of custom computer board design by combining the processing, memory,…
Young Farmers and Driverless Tractors
Back in the good old days, farming relied on horses or some other type of draft animal and a farmer with a strong back. Today…
Industry Trends: Swarm Robotics
From Alan Turing to Deep Blue and Watson, humans have been trying to create smarter algorithms since computers were invented. There has been much success…