Wearable applications including activity and fitness trackers, smart gloves, glasses, watches and headphones all use sensors to monitor what’s going on. And when more than one sensing device is…
Small connected home appliances, smart lights, and motion controllers become popular when they find a solution to one of their greatest challenges : offering maximum performance while maintaining the lowest…
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PIQ Thrives Under Pressure, ST’s LPS25HB Pressure Sensor at the Service of Athletes
August 24, 2016
The arrival of wearable technologies has changed the world of sports, and PIQ is one of the founding players of this revolution. The company designed the 13-axis multi-sport PIQ sensor that…
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Following the recent post on ST’s latest low-voltage motor drivers, we now have a new video that shows how to use the STM32 Open Development Environment to drive the…
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Ever since Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that radio waves were reflected by metallic objects, engineers have been putting the discovery to use in many range- and direction-finding applications. The technique…
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World Record : VL53L0X, the Smallest Time-of-Flight Sensor Gets More Powerful
August 19, 2016
Many electronic devices must be able to detect the world around them in order to function properly. A zoom cannot autofocus, an automatic faucet cannot start or stop, a…
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In Application Examples, Our products, Smart Driving
STM32 MCUs Are Up to the Solar-Car Challenge
August 15, 2016
The 2016 American Solar Challenge is complete and the winner is the University of Michigan Solar Car team that was sponsored, in part, by ST. The University of Michigan team…
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World Record : STSPIN, the Smallest Single Chip Motor Driver, Still With Even More Features
August 12, 2016
ST recently broke the record for the world’s tiniest single chip motor driver by shrinking the packaging of three of its chips to 3 mm x 3 mm. Aside…
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ST at Electromagnetic Field 2016 : MCU And Sensors in the Most Interactive of Badges
August 10, 2016
Electromagnetic Field 2016 is a non-profit camping festival that took place last weekend, from August 5 to August 7, in Guildford, United Kingdom. This self-described “temporary village for those with…
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Getting Ready for a Smart-Bike Upgrade
August 8, 2016
I bike. Not because it decreases traffic, reduces pollution, and eliminates parking problems, and is therefore easily the most efficient and sustainable means of urban transportation. Not because governments…
