A high-end thermal-transfer label printer that has been designed for quick and efficient customised identification of wires, cables and components has been introduced by RS Components. The BMP61 label printer from Brady is a tool for those working in market sectors that use a sizeable amount of cables that require labelling, such as the electrical, power, telecom and ICT industries.

Microchip compares the speed performance of its previous model ICD3 programmer with the new ICD4 programmer, which provides around twice the speed.

RS Components (RS) is sponsoring ORConf, an open source digital design and embedded systems conference that covers from the transistor level up to Linux user space and beyond — featuring presentations and discussion on free and open source IP projects, implementations on FPGA and in silicon, verification, EDA tools, licensing and embedded software.

An innovative Industrial Ethernet access point from Phoenix Contact is available at distributor RS Components. Offering quick and easy installation, the new WLAN1100 wireless LAN module is a reliable, rugged and safe device that combines access point and antenna technology in a single unit.

Three series of second-generation LEDs from Cree that offer higher performance with greater efficiency and longer service life are in stock at RS Components. The LEDs target design engineers and are suitable for a diverse range of lighting applications including spot, street, parking area, and both low- and high-bay lighting.

A range of soft-PGS (Pyrolytic Graphite Sheet) thermal interface material from Panasonic is now available at RS Components. The material provides excellent thermal protection in an easy-to-use format that makes it ideal for delivering thermal management and heatsinking in applications where space is limited.

An initiative to help members of its DesignSpark engineering community realise their product and business ideas has been launched by RS Components (RS) in collaboration with Crowdcube, a leading UK-based online equity crowdfunding platform. The agreement between RS and Crowdcube extends the third-party services available to UK-based DesignSpark members

  A series of oscilloscopes that capture and display significantly more signal than competitive units is available at RS Components. The TBS2000 oscilloscopes from Tektronix offer 10 vertical and 15 horizontal divisions. The series also offers dedicated controls that provide quick access to important settings enabling better and faster evaluation of designs.

RS Components (RS) is supporting a Northamptonshire-based charity in its mission to encourage youngsters into engineering. Northamptonshire Industrial Training Association Ltd (NITAL), a provider of training and apprenticeships for young people looking to enter the industry, is being given product donations by RS for use in NITAL’s Training Academy, based in Kettering.

The Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick (NCS), which is the newest development tool for ultra-low-power deep-learning inference is available at RS Components. The tool enables developers to develop and prototype artificial intelligence (AI) applications to a broad range of devices at the edge in a convenient USB form factor.

Availability of a new range of micro-miniature industrial connectors manufactured by Norcomp has been announced by RS Components. They are a cost-effective and highly capable alternative to the use of military- and aerospace-rated micro-D connectors.

  Configuring the low cost Arty FPGA board with an Arduino compatible RISC-V platform.

A rolling material monitoring system that can sit inside a bulldozer and collect data from the vehicle has been revealed as the winner of the Hackster community design contest based on the SIMATIC IOT2020 industrial IoT gateway. The contest was aimed at engineers, makers and students and challenged them to come up with innovative applications and solutions based on the open and highly flexible IoT gateway, which is manufactured by Siemens.

pi-topPULSE. Is a HAT compatible, pi-top add-on board that functions as a high-end Raspberry Pi Speaker. It features a vivid LED matrix and includes an inbuilt microphone that integrates to give users an interactive Raspberry Pi assistant. The pi-topPULSE is an integrated solution for music, lights and sound that can be used by makers, students and educators alike.

Two new SmartEverything solutions from Arrow have extended the portfolio of development boards at RS Components. The SmartEverything LION IoT development system-on-module (SoM) board and the SmartEverything ARIS IoT board both offer support for Internet of Things (IoT) application development.

The range of products from Phoenix Contact used in industrial and electronics applications has been extended at RS Components with a new series of RJ45 connector devices. Combining the trusted RJ45 format with innovative tool-free installation techniques, the Phoenix Contact CUC series offers a one-piece design providing easy installation even in hard to reach places.

Putting RS components at the heart of robotics.

  The new MeArm robot deluxe kit from Mime Industries is for doing an out of the box build. Being open source it is ideal for use in your own projects. The Maker Kit is also available in a format where you can use your own controller, be it an Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone or others, to control it.

A thermal imaging camera from Fluke’s Ti range is available at RS Components. The Fluke Ti480 is a rugged 640 x 480-pixel thermal imaging camera that delivers precise and reliable information for engineers, enabling them to quickly and easily identify and diagnose potential problems before they become expensive failures.

Two new series of high-performance electrolytic capacitors manufactured by Panasonic are in stock at RS Components. Offering excellent characteristics for a wide variety of applications, the V-TC and V-TCU series of aluminium electrolytic capacitors are specialised miniaturised components offering ripple current and high capacitance.