Passives

Crowdsourcing smartphone sensors to build weather stations

Weather reports typically only tell you what the weather should be doing in given places, not what it is doing. But this could soon change with an online service that uses people’s phones as tiny weather stations. WeatherSignal  has launched and will crowdsource meteorological data from Android smartphones and…

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Built in Britain: Welwyn

Welwyn started making resistors in Bedlington Northumberland in 1946, and it is still making resistors there, in a growing facility, with technology that is in demand worldwide.

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Distributor stocks up on Epcos capacitors

Martin Ford, Gateway’s MD said: “with the number of film capacitor manufacturers diminishing over the past few years, the appeal of the Epcos portfolio has strengthened

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Sentral sensor fusion hub targets Android, Windows 8

PNI's Sentral sensor fusion hub is an IC for motion processing in mobile devices. It's designed for the offloading of sensor management and fusion work from host CPUs, thereby helping to reduce power usage.

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