How Your Car's Computer Hub Helps Reduce the Automotive Industry's Environmental Impact

Posted on 21 July 2020

Your car runs on many different computers, called Electronic Control Units (ECUs) all hooked together by a singular Controller Area Network (CAN) hub. This hub coordinates the intake and flow of electronic information within your car ranging from the GPS system to the windows. This hub is important not only for your car but also for the rest of the planet. 1. Pollution Control The reasons that CANs were introduced in the first place was because of public health and safety attempts to control vehicle emissions. [Read More]

Use An Organized Approach To Power Up All Of Your Equipment

Posted on 29 May 2020

A pile of tangled cords can make it difficult to determine if you plugged in all of your office equipment and can impede your work production. If electrical outlets are located along a couple of walls in your home office, you may also be inconvenienced by needing to use extension cords for some of the equipment. A power strip will support many items that operate electrically. Surge Protection And Ample Room  [Read More]

Smarter Switching Gear and Circuit Breakers Ready for the Virtual Power Plant Era

Posted on 29 April 2020

As the era of the virtual power plant dawns, power plant safety is of foremost concern. The virtual plant is designed to manage the higher electrical loads of larger power plants. These mega-power plants are adding higher capacity conventional, renewable, and distributed power generators.  The virtual power plant aggregates these mega-power plant and small independent power loads on the cloud. Power distribution is remotely optimized across this network by balancing real-time power supply and demand. [Read More]

A Guide To Biohacking Your Health And Well-Being

Posted on 21 April 2020

People today are suffering from physical and mental ailments and are often finding new ways of improving the way their health works. In this regard, biohacking is one of the more popular trends, and one of the best things that you can do to optimize several different aspects of your health and well-being. Read on to learn more about biohacking, how it can be helpful to you, and what sort of biohacks you can use. [Read More]

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It's Electric! An Electronics Blog

Think about all of the items you use each day that are reliant upon electricity. You're reading this either on a phone or a computer — both devices are electronic. It's tough to cook without some type of electronic device, like a range or oven, and you use electronics to make coffee, power your lights, and so much more. Since there are so many electronic items, the topic of electronics is vast. But that has not stopped us from diving in! This blog is a veritable collection of articles on all sorts of electronics topics. Computer geeks, coffee lovers, and TV watchers alike will learn from the information presented here.

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