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

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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 tiene más de 40 años de experiencia en la industria de los componentes electrónicos. Ahora está semijubilado y se desmpeñó como Vicepresidente de Ingeniería de Aplicaciones de DigiKey. Su experiencia incluye la dirección de equipos de ingenieros de aplicación, técnicos y personal de gestión cualificados para desarrollar productos originales y únicos de tecnología avanzada.

Sus actividades personales incluyen el procesamiento de señales digitales, la implementación de lógica programable, mejoras en el control del movimiento y el diseño de software. Es titular de patentes en múltiples industrias y es miembro senior del IEEE. Randall tiene títulos de BSEE, MS y MBA de la Universidad de Cincinnati.

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