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It’s always good to start off the new year by looking into the crystal ball and trying to figure out what’s going to happen moving forward. Here, I’m looking into the crystal ball via a report that the folks at ARM have recently published. Their 2019 Technology Survey & Predictions: Yes to More Tech, Yes […]
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There was a recent article in the EE Times on some research funding that’s been awarded to a team Belgian researchers who are developing “a new chip to study the mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease.” The funding comes from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which runs – among other efforts – the Neurodegeneration Challenge Network, a program […]
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Our partner Arrow Electronics partnered with quadriplegic race car driver Sam Schmidt to work on a semi-autonomous race car that has gotten up to speed in the 200 m.p.h. range.
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This time of year, I like to take a look at the best tech toys out there. Kelly Hodgkins had an interesting list on Digital Trends, which I keyed off of here. Happy shopping!
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A look at Gartner's latest hype cycle on emerging technologies. (For those eagerly awaiting Autonomous Flying Vehicles, they're a ways out.)
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I took advantage of Critical Link's participation in the recent Collaborative Robotics, Vision Systems, and AI Conference to learn more about cobotics.
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The final two "episodes" of our take on Jack Ganssle's excellent list of reasons why embedded projects go bad.
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Writing optimistic code and poor resource planning. Two more reasons why, according to Jack Ganssle, embedded projects go bad.
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Reasons 5 & 6 from Jake Ganssle's "How Embedded Projects Run into Trouble": Crummy analog/digital interfacing, and Weak management.
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Two more of Jacke Ganssle's reasons why embedded projects go awry - Bad Science and the Undisciplined Use of C/C++.
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