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RS Components launches History Makers podcast
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S Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc, a global multi-channel distributor, has announced the launch of a new comedy podcast series called History Makers. History Makers explores a modern day technology theme, such as Wi-Fi, artificial intelligence or 3D printing, and delves into the lives of the great inventors from centuries past who made it all possible, with a few laughs along the way. The podcast is hosted by Robot Wars judge and DesignSpark blogger, Dr Lucy Rogers alongside award-winning comedians Harriet Braine and Bec Hill. Each episode brings a famous maker from the past face-to-face with an innovative present-day technology through a combination of facts, jokes, sketches and songs. The presenters pay their respects to the struggles and triumphs of makers who went before, and reflect on whether the inventions that came after them are really as beneficial as we think. The six episodes were recorded live, before an audience, over three summer sessions hosted at London’s Canal Café Theatre. History Makers was created with expert help from a crack team of producers, writers and script editors with credits across multiple BBC shows. History Makers episodes will be released every Monday throughout early autumn. Full episode details are below.
Release date
Episode Topic
3 September Episode 1
10 September
Episode 2
From radio to Wi-Fi. The story of Guglielmo Marconi, father of modern radio, and Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood star turned inventor. What would they make of our Wi- Fi-saturated world?
From Frankenstein’s monster to AI. Mary Shelley’s famous horror story Frankenstein imagined a creature
that rises up against its creator. As AI affects more and more areas of our lives, are we creating our own monsters?
17 September
Episode 3
Grace, the grandma of COBOL. Grace Hopper was a gifted engineer who helped build the first commercial computers and develop COBOL, one of the first programming languages. Today, computer programs are everywhere – but are they a blessing or a burden?
24 September
Episode 4
Longitude, latitude and laughs. Horologist John Harrison built clocks precise enough to measure longitude at sea, making ocean travel far safer. These days, we take accurate timekeeping for granted – but is there a downside to living by the clock?
1 October Episode 5
From Wedgwood’s wares to 3D printing. Josiah Wedgwood developed innovative new ceramics and the classic blue and white Jasperware. What would he think of a machine that outputs perfectly formed items at the touch of a button – the 3D printer?
8 October Episode 6
From calculations to cyber. Ida Lovelace saw the way forward from Charles Babbage’s calculating machines to a true computer, laying the groundwork for cybernetics. Will we still appreciate her work in a world run by robots?
The History Makers podcasts are available to download from
www.designspark.com,
www.designspark.podbean.com and the iOS Podcast app by searching for DesignSpark.
www.rs-online.com
6 September 2018 Components in Electronics
ARCCORE becomes a part of Vector V
ector, the Stuttgart embedded software specialist for automotive embedded electronics, has acquired the Swedish embedded software specialist ARCCORE effective July 11, 2018. This acquisition strengthens Vector’s portfolio of products and services in the field of AUTOSAR. Customers of Vector will benefit from further innovations for this global automotive software standard. ARCCORE was founded in 2006 and
currently employs 80 people worldwide who work on developing and distributing products and services in the domain of embedded based solutions, primarily for the automotive market. Since 2009 the focus is on the global ECU software standard AUTOSAR. Headquartered in Gothenburg (Sweden), ARCCORE has subsidiaries in Linköping (Sweden), Munich (Germany), Bangalore (India), Palo Alto (USA) and Shanghai (China). For Dr. Thomas Beck, managing director
of Vector, the acquisition offers many advantages for automotive customers, not only in Sweden: “ARCCORE is a strong addition to our embedded software portfolio and contributes to the success of worldwide customer projects. A special focus will be on the ongoing development of AUTOSAR Adaptive, the new standard platform for application computers in vehicles. The powerful development team enables us to provide useful innovations for our customers.”
Michael Svenstam, CEO and co-founder
of ARCCORE adds: “ARCCORE is excited to join the Vector family. For the past five years, ARCCORE has grown to be a recognised global partner in the AUTOSAR market. Adding ARCCORE offerings to technologies and capabilities from Vector will further extend the ability to serve current and new customers.” Vector is not new to the Swedish market. The wholly owned Vector subsidiary VecScan AB is headquartered in Gothenburg and has been serving customers since 2002 with software tools and embedded components mainly for the automotive market. In the meantime, VecScan AB has established a solid position in Scandinavia and will continue to expand it in the future.
Development work on AUTOSAR Adaptive software for automotive ECUs is currently in full progress in the IT industry. While the development of conventional ECUs was driven primarily by stringent real-time and safety requirements, today aspects such as updating and upgrading capability are primary considerations. These involve dynamic reloading of software components, the use of standard libraries – such as for image analysis –, self-learning of functions and accelerated production cycles. The main use cases are automated driving and “over-the-air” updating as well as multimedia applications.
www.vector.com/autosar www.cieonline.co.uk
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