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Nordic Semiconductor Release First Wi-Fi Chip

On Tuesday 16th August, Nordic Semiconductor announced their first Wi-Fi product, the nRF7002. Nordic Semi now covers all 3 major IoT communications protocols. Bluetooth, Cellular and now Wi-Fi. The technical expertise required to create this silicon came from Nordic’s acquisition

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Low Cost CubeSats

A CubeSat is a miniature satellite that measures only 10cm on each side and weighs no more than 2kg. These small cubes often use Commercial Off-The-Shelf components (COTS) for the whole build, which makes them a lot cheaper than our

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The MANY Benefits of IoT

Milliamp took part in the closeout event of the Mobile Access North Yorkshire (MANY) 5G project in the beautiful surroundings of Forbidden Corner in North Yorkshire. This project has focused on developing 5G and IoT testbeds in rural communities around

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Bluetooth LE Audio takes audio devices to new levels

Bluetooth LE Audio is the latest addition to the Bluetooth standards, and this new technology will bring higher quality, seamless listening to devices, while also minimising battery usage. Bluetooth LE Audio is based on the popular Bluetooth standard Bluetooth LE

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AlphaCode AI out to take over Milliamp’s work?

Google’s UK-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) unit DeepMind has created a tool that can solve programming problems on its own and write code. They even put it to a test in a programming competition with people and the AI named AlphaCode

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Santa delivers KiCad 6

Last month during the holiday period, alongside festive joy brought by the big man in the red coat delivering Coca Cola, excitement was also brought to the electronics world with the unveiling of KiCad 6, our electronics and PCB design

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COP26 ends but no discussions on e-waste

Last week, COP26 drew to a close with an extended day, but many have been left rather disappointed by the outcome. This was the first climate deal ever that planned explicitly to reduce coal – the worst fossil fuel for

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Global chip shortage continues

The 2020–21 global chip shortage is an ongoing crisis in which the demand for semiconductor chips is greater than the supply, impacting more than 169 industries. It has led to major shortages and queues amongst consumers for video cards, video

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ST Launch die integrated STM32WLE5 LoRa SoC

Firstly Happy New Year to all our blog readers !!! We’ve been a bit quiet of late on this blog as we have been snowed under with work however we thought we would talk about a very exciting new development

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Lancaster E-Racing Head to Silverstone

Last week we were invited down to Lancaster University’s (relatively new) Engineering Building by Lancaster E-Racing for the unveiling event of this years Formula Student entry to be raced at Silverstone on the 19-21 July 2019.  We would like to with

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