New Product Discoveries - PUI Audio's Exciter and Pimoroni's micro:bit Development Board

Today on New Product Discoveries I have an Exciter from PUI Audio and the micro:bit educational development board from Pimoroni.

PUI Audio has traditionally been known for their speaker products. Today, we are presenting a product called an Exciter (ASX08808-TP-R). Similar to a speaker, an Exciter is a voice coil that is made to be mounted on a hard surface. The inherent dynamic quality of the surface in which the Exciter is mounted is what affects the emitted frequency color. The advantage of an Exciter over a traditional speaker is that sound is emitted in a planar fashion. This means the emitted sound waves are more easily picked up without having to be directly in front of the Exciter.

Another product I would like to discuss is the micro:bit educational board from Pimoroni. Pimoroni is well known for their offering of educational tools and kits – the micro:bit is no different. The micro:bit prototyping kit comes with all the required accessories to get you creating micro:bit projects with ease. The micro:bit is programmed through a graphical form which lends itself to teaching children microprocessor programming. There are a few different micro:bit kits available, and the board alone can be purchased as well – all on digikey.com.

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Randall Restle heeft meer dan 40 jaar ervaring in de elektronische componentenindustrie. Hij is nu semi-gepensioneerd en heeft gediend als Vice President of Applications Engineering van DigiKey. Zijn ervaring omvat het aansturen van teams van bekwame applicatie-ingenieurs, technici en managementpersoneel om originele en unieke geavanceerde technologische producten te ontwikkelen.

Zijn persoonlijke bezigheden zijn onder andere digitale signaalverwerking, programmeerbare logica implementatie, verbeteringen in de motion control en software ontwerp. Hij is in het bezit van octrooien in verschillende industrieën en is een seniorlid van de IEEE. Randall behaalde BSEE-, MS- en MBA-diploma's aan de Universiteit van Cincinnati.

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