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Open Source IDE to USB Drive Revives Old IDE Drives

Explore the era of aging hardware, the challenges faced with data recovery from old drives, and how the ATABoy, an open-source USB bridge, allows older PATA drives to connect to modern computers, offering a solution for data recovery and reusing older hardware.

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JAE DW15 Floating Connector Enables Autonomous Robot Charging

JAE DW15 Series floating connector supports autonomous charging of AGVs and AMRs with 60A at 250V DC capability, double-floating misalignment compensation, busbar contact design, and 10,000 mating cycle durability.

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Kontron mITX Board With Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Targets Real-Time Edge AI

Kontron’s K4131 Px mITX motherboard uses the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P100 to combine multi display graphics, local AI inference, legacy connectivity and wide input power handling for industrial edge automation, vision and HMI systems.

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Vishay Expands 0806 and 1210 Inductor Families With Smaller Footprints And Higher Thermal Headroom

Vishay’s new IHLL and IHLP inductors deliver smaller 0806 and 1210 footprints, lower DCR, higher temperature ratings and soft saturation behavior for DC DC converters, automotive electronics, noise suppression and precision industrial systems.

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Advantech i.MX 95 Modules Push Real-Time Edge AI Toward More Deterministic Control

Advantech’s i.MX 95 based modules combine multi domain compute, 2 TOPS AI acceleration, multi sensor imaging and TSN networking to support real time industrial automation, machine vision and advanced HMI systems at the edge.

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Worlds Smallest Capacitor Gets Smaller to Just 32nm

Researchers demonstrate a 32 nm vacuum-gap nanoelectromechanical capacitor, exploring how extreme miniaturization could influence future sensing, memory technologies, and nanoscale device research.