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Updates & Interesting Stuff
Here at Touché we like to share information about some of our projects and also other interesting information that we have learned or come across during our work. Sometimes this is about really useful tools or helpful hints.
E-Textiles and Printed Electronics
Over the past few years there has been a lot of discussion around the development and use of e-textiles. E-textiles typically take the form of yarns, threads and fabrics that have conductive properties i.e. they conduct electricity. The different materials can be...
Designing for Brushless DC Motors (aka: Digital motors)
The brushless DC motor (BLDC) is becoming increasingly popular when designing products for markets such as automotive, domestic appliances, tools and industrial systems because it does away with the mechanical commutator (brushes) used in traditional motors, replacing...
Dealing with post pandemic chip shortages
Over the last few years it has been all too easy to design new products and get them into the market quickly but all that changed in 2020. The onset of COVID-19 sent shockwaves around the world with country after country imposing lockdowns. At that time many...
Using LIN Bus for locker systems
LIN (Local Interconnect Network) is a serial network protocol used for communication between components in vehicles. LIN is a low cost communications solution as it requires only 3 connections; Ground, Power and signal. These same 3 connections can be daisy chained to...
Giving old equipment a face lift
There are many examples of industrial equipment that were designed may be 20 or 30 years ago that work perfectly well and do the job they were intended for efficiently but on which the user interface is very dated. In today’s world of smartphones and tablets most...
Low Power Card Detect – Friend or foe?
Historically if you were designing a contactless card reader then to detect cards you needed to poll periodically by turning the RF field on and sending out polling requests (REQA for ISO14443A for example). This is fine for USB or mains powered readers but for...
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