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Smart Home Market 2017: 4 Consumer Trends Startups Should Be Aware Of

2017 September 142017 October 11 TechDesign 1898 Views 0 Comments AI, Bluetooth, IoT, IoT product, reference design, smart bulb, smart home, smart socket

Has the bottom fallen out of the smart home market? Hard to say, but most research agencies have significantly reduced

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What Are the Connectivity Options for IoT?

2017 September 5 TechDesign 2832 Views 0 Comments Bluetooth, connectivity, hardware startup, IoT, IoT product, LoRa, Sigfox, wifi, Z-Wave, ZigBee

For makers and electronics startups who are building an IoT or smart device, they have to make decisions regarding the

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Energy Harvesting in Wearables

2017 August 252017 September 4 TechDesign 1689 Views 0 Comments energy harvesting, Motion Energy Harvesting, power management, Small Solar Cells, Thermal Energy Harvesting, wearable

Energy Harvesting: The Key to Widespread Adoption of Wearables After a significant fanfare, wearable sales have lost considerable steam. A

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Hearables, Voice, and AI at the Edge of Ambient Intelligence

2017 July 72017 July 11 TechDesign 1829 Views 0 Comments Amazon Alexa, ambient computing, ambient intelligence, Apple Siri, artificial intelligence, consumer devices, consumer electronics, Doppler Hear One, Google Assistant, Google Now, hearables, IoV, Machine learning, Microsoft Cortana, Natural language processing, smart earbuds, speech recognition, The Bragi Dash, Virtual assistants, Voice UI, Voice user interface

“As the IoT landscape populates with smarter devices and the data they generate, ambient computing is the fabric that knits

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LinkIt 7697 vs ESP 32: Who will Win?

2017 June 62018 May 10 TechDesign 4306 Views 0 Comments development board, ESP, LinkIt

(The original Chinese version of this article is written by Hsiang-yang Lu and published on MakerPRO) In 2014 COMPUTEX, MediaTek

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Apple’s Hot New Design Secret: Wireless Charging

2017 May 312017 June 2 TechDesign 1416 Views 4 Comments iPhone, reference design, wireless charger, wireless charging, wireless technology

There’s a rumor going around that Apple will give the iPhone 8 a wireless charge feature. There’s another rumor going

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Get Started with IoT Visual Wiring Tool – Node-RED

2017 April 12 TechDesign 3797 Views 0 Comments Arduino, IoT, NodeRed, programming, raspberry pi, visual programming tool, visual wiring tool

(The original Chinese version of this article is written by Hsin-yu Ho and published on MakerPRO) Now more and more

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Evolution of Raspberry Pi Zero in 3 Versions

2017 April 52018 December 17 TechDesign 4915 Views 0 Comments development board, maker, pi zero, raspberry pi

(The original Chinese version of this article is written by Hsiang-yang Lu and published on MakerPRO) In November 2015, Raspberry

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How do Makers Build Voice Control with ReSpeaker?

2017 March 202017 March 22 TechDesign 1542 Views 0 Comments IoT, makers, speech recognition, voice control

(The original Chinese version of this article is written by Hsiang-yang Lu and published on MakerPRO) Speech recognition has been

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What are the Alternatives to Raspberry Pi?

2017 March 12017 July 7 TechDesign 2094 Views 4 Comments alternative, development board, raspberry pi

(The original Chinese version of this article is written by Hsiang-yang Lu and published on MakerPRO) As the Maker revolution

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