Although a thermal, or infrared, vision system can easily inspect printed-circuit boards (PCBs) and their components, many people in the electronics business don’t fully understand what thermal ...

Loading cement sacks into trucks requires precise counting for traceability, yet manual methods are error-prone and often ...

This week we got the chance to speak with Daniel Mar from Texas Instruments Product Marketing who showed off what TI notes is the TMP006, the world's smallest digital infrared temperature sensor. This ...

Osram Opto Semiconductors was able to sink a surface-mountable infrared (IR) LED into a printed-circuit board, creating what it claims is the first the first flush-mountable version of its kind. The ...

Some readers may recall building a line-following robot during their school days. Involving some IR LEDs, perhaps a bit of LEGO, and plenty of trial-and-error, it was fun on a tiny scale. Now imagine ...