Loading cement sacks into trucks requires precise counting for traceability, yet manual methods are error-prone and often ...

Although a thermal, or infrared, vision system can easily inspect printed-circuit boards (PCBs) and their components, many people in the electronics business don’t fully understand what thermal ...

This week we got the chance to speak with Daniel Mar from Texas Instruments Product Marketing who showed off what TI notes is the TMP006, the world's smallest digital infrared temperature sensor. This ...

Some readers may recall building a line-following robot during their school days. Involving some IR LEDs, perhaps a bit of LEGO, and plenty of trial-and-error, it was fun on a tiny scale. Now imagine ...