A Deep Dive on Thunderboard Sense 2
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Sensors for a Song
Huge growth in the smartphone market has had the side effect of dramatically lowering the cost and shrinking the size of the sensors used those in those phones. Several chip vendors have come out with small development boards containing a variety of these tiny, low-cost sensors. In this article, Brian takes a close look at one such solution: the Thunderboard Sense 2 from Silicon Labs.
Topics Discussed
How have smartphones benefited the sensor market?
What does the Thunderboard Sense 2 board include?
How does the Mbed IDE compare to the Simplicity Studio IDE?
Dulog Bio-Tracker, Powered by Silicon Labs EFR32 SoCs, Proves Bats Can Socially Distance When Sick
Proven in the field, and with a commercial implementation coming soon, the dulog bio-logger proves how smart bats can be.
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Silicon Labs has highlighted a somewhat unusually-deployed wireless network, built using EFR32 Wireless Gecko systems-on-chips (SoCs) â attached to the backs of bats, as part of a study to see whether the flying mammals practice social distancing. Iâve been involved with this project since the end of 2013 and was inspired by my advisor, who is also a bat biologist, Ohio State University biologist Simon Ripperger explains in an interview with Silicon Labs. He used to go to Greece for field work all the time, but their method of tracking and bio-logging bats was a bit unbelievable â he was essentially running behind bats, chasing them with an antenna.