Pokémon company claims that Switch has sold very well. Have you bought Switch Pokémon? -part 2

On May 31 this year, Nintendo made a sudden announcement without warning. It released a new version of "Pokémon" containing dual versions ("Pokémon Let'sGo! Pikach" "Pokémon Let'sGo! Eeve"). The game will be released this year, which raised a sudden hit in a while since it is a classic and popular game. It will be released on November 16^th this year, landing on the Switch platform, worldwide I guess we still need to wait for a while.

The "Pokemon" was developed based on the "Pokémon Yellow" launched in 1998 and this time the team rebuilt the gameplay and storyline. The official confirmation game will also have a new Pokemon debut, which is also excited. In terms of selling price, the price of the game body Japanese version is 5980 yen (excluding tax). The new peripheral bluetooth game controller "Pokémon Plus" is priced at 4,980 yen (excluding tax). 

The senior staff of Game Freak also forwarded this news at the first time, and also sent a tweet that read "Have a wonderful day”. Each of our eager players can have a good day hopefully! Nintendo's recent release of the free "Pokémon” game "Pokémon Adventure Treasure Hunt” is very popular on Switch: After the game was released earlier this month, it has already captured more than 2.5 million downloads.

A few days after the game was released, it has already reached 1 million downloads. "Pokémon Adventure Treasure Hunt" will also be launched on iOS and Android on June 28. This will undoubtedly increase the total downloads again. It can be seen that the classic IP of Pokémon is extremely popular on any game platform. This year is also a year when many classic masterpieces were re-engraved and re-recognized. Let us look forward to updating more classic works together.

Pokémon company claims that Switch has sold very well. Have you bought Switch Pokémon? -part 1

Pokémon CEO recently said that Nintendo Switch have already sold 20 million units. Individuals have seen their sales decline due to performance problems. Switch seems to have solved this problem with its own IP and cloud games. Switch was launched in March 2017 and its first year sales amounted to approximately 17.79 million. That is to say, the newly added 2.2 million sales volume was completed in April-June 2018, which was one and a half months later than the original plan of “20 million units a year”.

After Sony and Microsoft successively introduced the next-gen game console products, the 720P's display, simple gyroscopes, and handles for HD vibrations, and “elderly” processors that do not basically support 3A masterpieces were rated “actively reject 3A masterpieces” by the outside world. For this reason, some game makers, including Pokémon, expressed concern about the sales outlook of Switch.

However, from the display data, Switch has become the most successful home game console of Nintendo after the Wii. In this process, the three main factors to compensate for the performance disadvantage include: its own IP, various peripherals, and cloud games. When talk about the peripheral handle stuff, we have to mention that NS now has released or corporate with other companies many good controller handles. They might be not that necessary, but it is also true that with a good peripheral bluetooth game controller, your whole game experience will be improved and you will feel so different when playing the same old games. My personal experience is that my game scores will be so much higher and the fun will be doubled.

In addition, such as LABO, Pokémon and other series of peripherals are sold in the pre-sale phase, unlike the main 3A Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo is still using Switch and related peripherals in a variety of games, at a lower cost to present content and shape the community.

India is planning bidding for the world's largest solar project (100GW)

International Solar PV Network News: June 25 news, recently, India's Minister of New Energy and Renewable Energy proposed the world's largest solar project (100GW) tender, which also includes energy storage projects and solar energy equipment manufacturing plant projects. However, no clear timetable has been set.

RK Singh, Minister of New Energy and Renewable Energy, said at the opening ceremony of the 1,500kWp solar power plant in Sikhgurwara, New Delhi “After Spain plans the country’s largest renewable energy project, we will hold a 10GW solar project tender in July. At present, we plan to bid for 100GW solar project, which also includes energy storage projects and solar equipment manufacturing plant projects."

India is one of the fastest growing renewable energy projects countries in the world, ranking fifth in renewable energy installed capacity, with a cumulative installed capacity of 70 GW and a 12.5 GW project under development. In India, solar power, wind power and other power generation products are also widely used in ordinary households. Among them, because Solar Generator is cheap, it can save resources and expenses, occupy a small volume, so it is widely used.

According to a report of the World Bank in 2017, this populous country, with a population of 1.3 billion, is the world’s third largest consumer of electricity, and solar power is starting to replace coal as its main source of electricity. The report said that the current cost of solar power is a quarter of 2009, and will drop by another 66% by 2040. The report was issued before the release of China's "531 Photovoltaic New Deal" and it is expected that solar panel prices will fall further this year.

With 20 cities in India being one of the most polluted cities in the world, its transformation to renewable energy is imperative. Singh added, “India needs to significantly reduce its use of fossil fuels.”

MIT discovers that magical 3D printed smart materials can jump, crawl, and catch the ball

June 20 news, according to Forbes magazine reports, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a way to print deformed soft materials in 3D. To achieve this goal, mechanical engineer Xuanhe Zhao and colleagues developed a 3D printing ink that injects magnetic microparticles. These tiny particles made of the neodymium-iron-boron alloy are combined with silica nanoparticles and embedded in silicone rubber to increase elasticity.

The researchers then designed a 3d printer that contained an electromagnet. By moving the electromagnet during printing, researchers can continuously control the orientation of magnetic particles. The resulting 3D structure can form a variety of complex structures that can respond instantly and highly accurately to magnetic fields. These print structures can stretch, roll, jump, and even catch the ball.

In addition, because materials respond to magnetic field changes rather than direct contact, this means that they can be controlled remotely. Xuanhe Zhao said: "We think this technology will have a good application prospect in biomedicine. For example, we can put a structure around blood vessels to control the pumping of blood, or use a magnet to guide a device through the gastrointestinal tracts to collect images, extract tissue samples, remove plugs, or send certain drugs to specific locations. You can design, simulate, and then print to achieve a variety of functions."

In fact, Xuanhe Zhao and his colleagues have developed materials and methods of use that will allow them to be used more widely. They said: "We have developed a print platform and prediction model for others to use. People can design their own structure and attribute patterns, validate them with models, and print them to implement various functions. Through the structure, properties, and programming magnetic fields and other complex information, we can even print smart machines such as robots.

Raspberry Pi, Arduino, traditional MCU development board, how to choose? -part 2

2. Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi was developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charity organization registered in the United Kingdom, and Eben Upton was the project leader. In March 2012, Eben Epton of the University of Cambridge, UK, officially launched the world's smallest desktop computer, also known as a card computer. Its appearance is only the size of a credit card, but it has all the basic functions of a computer. This foundation aims to elevate computer science and related disciplines in schools and make computers interesting. The Foundation expects that this computer will continue to be developed and applied to more fields in both developing and developed countries. In 2006, the early concept of the Raspberry Pi was based on Atmel's ATmega644 MCU. The first batch of 10,000 "Taiwan" Raspberry Pi "boards" were manufactured by Chinese Taiwan and mainland manufacturers.

The Raspberry Pi is a mini-computer that integrates most of the things in your computer case onto a circuit board. There are no real differences between the monitor mouse and keyboard, etc. and your computer. The operating system is not the same. This is based on Linux system. If you are not familiar with this kind of operation, the arduino starter kit is still the best choice for you as a starter.

3. the traditional microcontroller

Microcontrollers (Microcontrollers) are integrated circuit chips that use a VLSI technology to provide central processing unit (CPU) with data processing capabilities, random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), various I/O ports and interrupt systems, and timers. Functions such as counters(which may also include display driver circuits, pulse width modulation circuits, analog multiplexers, A/D converters, etc.) are integrated into a single chip to form a small and complete microcomputer system in the industry.  From the 80s of the last century, from the 4-digit, 8-bit microcontroller, to the current 300M high-speed microcontroller, it has wide application in the field of control.

Microcontroller called MCU microcontroller abroad, is to integrate CPURAMROM and so on into a single chip to form a single-chip microcomputer.

Raspberry Pi, Arduino, traditional MCU development board, how to choose? -part 1

With the continuous popularization of patch technology in 2015, breadboards are no longer as useful, and economic development has reduced the price of ready-made boards to a reasonable range. Buying ready-made circuit boards, or even using their own proofing circuit boards has become a trend.

Now, the choices before us are unprecedented. On the one hand, open source hardware camps led by Arduino and Raspberry Pi are developing in a very fast way. On the other hand, there are traditional SCM development board camps headed by STM32, 51, and S3C2440. This article mainly wants to explain in detail about how to choose between Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and traditional MCU development boards.

1. Arduino

Arduino is a convenient, flexible and easy-to-use open-source electronic prototyping platform that includes hardware (various models of Arduino boards) and software (Arduino IDE). It is suitable for enthusiasts in all levels, artists, designers, and users who are interested in "interaction." If you are a new starter, you can get to the arduino starter kit which can be found on many online stores. This kind of kit is a very useful tool for you to learn how to use the Arduino board in a quick way, and it is very affordable.

Popularly speaking: Arduino is mainly a microcontroller application development board with an AVR microcontroller as the core controller (of course, there are other cores such as the STM32 version but not the official, there are Galileo intel), or learning board, but The Arduino developers have developed simple functions and many application libraries, so that there is no need to directly manipulate the registers, so that people without a good microcontroller foundation can use Arduino to do what they want. The Arduino developers have also developed a simple IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that is to write code, compile, debug, and download the PC software, which makes it very easy and convenient to use.

Why should you buy H96 PRO PLUS Amlogic S912

Getting your first Android box is a very exciting time. If you're like us and love watching the best movies, TV shows and video clips, then until you get an Android box, you have no idea what's missing. Being able to open Netflix to catch up on your favorite show, then pause to open a browser and watch the latest football scores is so cool. An Android TV box in the UK also gives you an option to watch live TV such as BBC and ITV using free services that can be set up via Kodi XBMC. let's look at H96 PRO PLUS Amlogic S912 together.

Design and build

Basically all Android devices have a very similar design, and most are plastic. So the same situation is also with amlogic s912 because the case is plastic, it has more or less the same design as other devices. It has two USB ports, an HDMI and a microSD card slot.

Performance and benchmark tests

From experience, we can tell you that the cheapest devices that cost about $ 25 are usually not of good quality because they always have defects. So, if you need a good and strong Android box then, in reality, you have to spend a little more money. So, the main question is how much money do I have to spend and what is the best choice in this price range group?

H96 PRO Plus is an excellent choice; you will receive a powerful Android TV box. It is based on Octa-core's Amlogic S912 ARM Cortex-A53 CPU including the 750MHz + ARM Mali-820MP3 GPU. Speaking of memory, it has 3GB of RAM, including 16GB of storage space which, of course, you can upgrade using the microSD card. As you can really see without exaggeration, it has solid material for this price.

Of course, we have tried many different things by playing games, watching movies, including 4K movies, going on the Internet, we have to admit that everything works exactly as it should. To be honest, we were pleasantly surprised because at first we did not know what to expect.

Video playback with Kodi 17

Normally, Kodi is very important for all media players, including this one. Amlogic S912 comes with the newest Kodi 17 that works like a charm. In other words, it works without lag. You can normally watch movies or TV shows of your choice. We have tried several different video additions, and they work as they should work.

Connectivity

We have noticed that cheaper models do not have connectivity features like Bluetooth. Therefore, we can tell you that Bluetooth is very important for several reasons. Especially for wireless keyboards, mice and the most important joysticks. Because most gadgets need a Bluetooth connection. But do not worry because Amlogic S912 has all the connectivity features, including Bluetooth v4.1. Other features, it has 2.4GHZ / 5.8GHZ Wi-Fi 802.11a / b / g / n / ac, and 100M / 1000M ethernet.

H96 PRO Plus is the most affordable android box that every home should have. It comes with amazing features that everyone in the house will appreciate.