The call for papers has opened for the next Designing with LEDs Workshop, to be held May 4, at the San Jose Marriott. Hosted by EDN and EE Times, the workshop is dedicated to the technology design aspects of high-brightness LEDs, principally in lighting and illumination. They’re looking for papers on topics such as...
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There is likely to be strong growth in LED lighting over the next three years, resulting in a doubling of the market by 2014, according to a new report. Strategies Unlimited predicted that the global market for LED light fixtures would grow to $8.3 billion (£5.1 billion), up from £3.8 billion in 2010. This...
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Intel and Apple sent quite a shock wave through the PC and consumer electronics communities today with the launch of Thunderbolt, a high-end interconnect that leapfrogs both Firewire and USB 3.0. Plenty of questions remain unanswered. But Intel has shed light on some of the major issues. Here’s the EE Times FAQ on Thunderbolt....
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via eetimes.com Would love to hear war stories of such engineering practical jokes in India Posted via email from mahalowpower’s posterous
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Success with this experiment has been a very exciting experience for me as it represents the ability to build a simple homemade active semiconductor device. It is almost like making your own homemade transistor. This is an actual realization of some very old, and esoteric 1920′s experiments, by W.H. Eccles, Greenleaf Pickard and Oleg...
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