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Electronics For You
June 2015 Issue
Vol. 47 No. 6
Tech Focus
Turning the Hanky Into a Smartphone
This is not a ‘frog turned into a prince’ story, but a very long quest by technologists
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Security
Electronics Surveillance: Successes and Failures
Surveillance in its various forms and for different situations has been practiced by humans from time immemorial. People used to accomplish this task for themselves and for others as a social obligation or as a paid job
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Golden Rules for Designing Wearables
Technology-aided behaviour analysis and modification has been there since four years now. However, earlier devices had the tendency to be more about delivering technology in a wearable device than about affecting behavioural change in the user
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Embedded
Electronic Products: In-the-Loop Testing Aids Embedded System Validation
Embedded systems software can provide significant competitive advantage to systems. For example, sophisticated embedded software in automotive applications helps improve safety, comfort, functionality, fuel economy and vehicle performance. Implementing functionality in software versus hardware decreases manufacturing cost
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What’s New in Audio and Video Components
What if you could hear everything said in a far-off room that is also sealed behind sound-proof glass by merely recording a video of some small object over there, even if it were just the leaves of a potted plant? That is how advanced audio and video processing hardware have come to be
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Infrastructure
Smartcities in India: A Long Way To Go
Smartcities are the future of habitat and infrastructure in the world. The growing demand for enhanced and digitised living from the masses is forcing these cities to come into existence, much earlier than expected
| Test & Measurement
Touchscreen and Multi-Function Make Today’s Oscilloscopes Powerful
Displaying variations in current and voltages with respect to time and even frequency, multi-function oscilloscopes have been around for a long time
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Innovation
Raspberry Pi and M2M Technology Power This Smart Street Lighting System
Venturing into the large-scale application market, a team of five from Bosch has come up with an indigenous smart street lighting solution, powered by Raspberry Pi, Bosch Internet of Things (IoT) Suite and a Zigbee based induction lamp
| EFY Plus DVD
This Month’s DVD Contents
This month’s DVD is a collection of all types of open source engineering tools available freely with one common distribution platform
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Interview
"I got my first eyeborg, which allowed me to sense colours"
Integrating electronics onto the human body is nothing new in this age of wearables. Neil Harbisson has taken this to the next level with the eyeborg—an antenna implanted into his skull that lets him ‘hear’ colours. He is now the world’s first government-recognised cyborg. Neil Harbisson speaks with Dilin Anand in an interview with EFY
| Make in India
Market Survey: Training Sector Seeing Rising Demand for New Subjects
With ever-changing technologies and expectations of a smarter work force for best results, training is viewed as a skill accelerator tool rather than an additional expense incurred
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Useful Websites
Educational and Training Kits
Learning electronics can be fun if you have the correct tools to explore. This month we have a few websites that provide you with educational and training kits
| Tech News
New LED tech boosts Wi-Fi bandwidth
A new technology has been developed that can increase the bandwidth of Wi-Fi systems by ten times, using LED lights to transmit information
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First Look
.ZenFone 2 by ASUS
.PowerShot SX530 HS camera from Canon
.Boat launches BPR 88 power bank
.Ultra-high-definition LED TV from Micromax
.Xiaomi launches Mi Band
.GizMo ByTes
| Make in India: Industry News
Electronics cluster worth Rs 710 million gets Central nod
The Central government has granted an in-principle approval to Mahratta Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture (MCCIA) for setting up a brownfield electronics cluster
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Make in India
COMPONENTS
| EFY Plus DVD
CAELinux: A Distribution of Open Source Engineering Tools
Engineers are often forced to work on commercial operating systems (OSes) because of their security and versatility, but we have other platforms like Fedora Electronic Laboratory (FEL) and computer-aided engineering Linux (CAELinux)
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EFY Plus DVD
Audio Analysis Made Easy Using Essentia
Essentia is an open source C++ library for audio analysis, released under Affero GPL V3 licence
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Smart Deeds for Mastering Digital Electronics
In this article, we introduce you to Digital Electronics Education and Design Suite, also known as Deeds software, which is a smart learning environment for digital electronics
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DO-IT-YOURSELF
Solar Emergency Lamp
Solar-powered lights are a popular alternative to electric-powered lights. The solar emergency lamp described here has 60 white LEDs
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Radio Frequency Detector
Here is a circuit that can detect the presence of a radio frequency (RF) signal
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DO-IT-YOURSELF
Glass Break Alarm
This circuit can be used for sounding an alarm to detect the breaking of a glass window by an intruder, even when the intruder ensures there is no sound of the shattered glass
| DO-IT-YOURSELF
Sixth-Sense Media Player
Sixth sense or gestural interface program is a popular term especially in robotics and wearable computers
Download source code
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DO-IT-YOURSELF
Kansas Lava to Simulate Circuits
Kansas Lava is a Haskell library that provides abstractions and powerful combinations to describe and simulate hardware circuits
Download source code
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AC 230V Electromagnetic Relay
An electromagnetic relay (EMR) allows a low-power circuit to switch on and switch off a relatively high-current circuit
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DO-IT-YOURSELF
Multichannel Visual Thermometer
Temperature of some electronic components used in a device may rise unexpectedly and these might get damaged
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Three Amazing Things You Can Do With Raspberry Pi
I keep trying new things with Raspberry Pi, or Raspi, to automate things around. Raspi never fails to surprise me with its ability to implement such complicated systems without any hassle
Download source code
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Buyers’ Guide
Selecting the Right Wireless Module
There has been a significantly increased interest in the wireless and radio frequency (RF) modules in research as well as industry, feel industry experts. Alok Jain, co-founder, InkOcean.in, says, “It is primarily being driven by the hottest technology buzz of today—the Internet of Things (IoT)
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Hybridisation and Thin-Film Sensors Key Enablers of Flexible Electronics Today
Flexible electronics is making its presence felt in almost every field, be it wearable, consumer electronics, medical, industrial or lighting. Still in early development, printed and flexible electronics is also enabling a much-talked-about trend today—the Internet of Things (IoT)
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Interview
"We put in a 15-minute time delay... to take care of last-minute order changes"
By leveraging advances in electronics, software and communication systems, the automation sector has improved a lot in the past decade. It has helped industries improve productivity and throughput. But at what point does it get too fast for its own good? Find out, as Glen Smith, CEO, Mouser Electronics, speaks with Atul Goel and Dilin Anand of EFY
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Ten Android Apps for Everyday Use on Your Smartphone
An Android phone can be greatly enhanced by installing some good apps. For a newbie, the selection of apps becomes a herculean task as the choice is so vast
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eStyle
Buyers' Guide: The Right Wearable for Your Wrist
We are living in a technically-advanced world and dependence on digital devices is witnessing a high level of growth
| DO-IT-YOURSELF
GPS Master-Slave Clocks With RF Link
We see public clocks displayed at many locations like office buildings, conference halls, control rooms and so on
Download source code
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