This Week in PowerBites: Smart Motor Drivers and Software, Cleantech Competition
What you’ll learn:
- Advances in electric motor-driver electronics and software tools are enabling rapid development of highly optimized motor solutions for commercial, industrial, and automotive products.
- A new type of perovskite-based photovoltaic panel shows potential to be a more efficient and cost-effective source of renewable power,
- Intelligent LED drivers can support the demands of increasingly complex automotive lighting applications.
- A new report details how market competition is accelerating the maturation, adoption and implementation of clean energy and its related industries.
Technology Advances
ProductBites
This month’s product section of PowerBites is chock-full of motor-drive and control products, but it finds room to fit in a bunch of other tasty news about new power-conversion, power-management, and power-sensing products
Power Devices
Power Conversion Products
Development Tools
Power Innovations
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About the Author
Lee Goldberg
Contributing Editor
Lee Goldberg is a self-identified “Recovering Engineer,” Maker/Hacker, Green-Tech Maven, Aviator, Gadfly, and Geek Dad. He spent the first 18 years of his career helping design microprocessors, embedded systems, renewable energy applications, and the occasional interplanetary spacecraft. After trading his ‘scope and soldering iron for a keyboard and a second career as a tech journalist, he’s spent the next two decades at several print and online engineering publications.
Lee’s current focus is power electronics, especially the technologies involved with energy efficiency, energy management, and renewable energy. This dovetails with his coverage of sustainable technologies and various environmental and social issues within the engineering community that he began in 1996. Lee also covers 3D printers, open-source hardware, and other Maker/Hacker technologies.
Lee holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Thomas Edison College, and participated in a colloquium on technology, society, and the environment at Goddard College’s Institute for Social Ecology. His book, “Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line - A Commonsense Guide To Environmentally Responsible Engineering and Management,” was published by Newnes Press.
Lee, his wife Catherine, and his daughter Anwyn currently reside in the outskirts of Princeton N.J., where they masquerade as a typical suburban family.
Lee also writes the regular PowerBites series.