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KiCad 5 is out, And We Love It!

KiCad reached another milestone in July 2018 – with the official release of a new version of the ever popular open source electronics and PCB design tool.  KiCad 4 was released in December 2015 and almost 3 years later, and

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Does Android Dream of Electric Sheep ?

Here at Milliamp HQ we can’t wait for the imminent release of Blade Runner 2049 (due for release in the UK on 6th October), what is there not to like about a film with flying cars, androids and a futuristic

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30cm GPS Accuracy Gamechanger by Broadcom

In an earlier than expected move, Broadcom have just announced the imminent availability of the dual band L1/L5 BCM47755.  Whilst this may not mean much to many people, it will be a future gamechanger for consumer tech currently in development that

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Milliamp evaluating new Murata LoRa modules

For the past couple of months we have been evaluating some interesting new tech from Murata – the CMWX1ZZABZ-078 LoRa wireless module. In a 12.5×11.6×1.76 mm package, this incorporates a SX1276 RF transceiver from Semtech and a STM32L Cortex M0+

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