Ben Heck’s Texas Instruments light booster

Even plants like to sleep sometimes. To do that, though, they need one hearty light meal from the sun. Watch how Ben and the team use Texas Instruments' MSP430 microcontroller with the ADS7042 light-sensing BoosterPack to control a set of alter...

Texas Instruments has a gold-hued graphing calculator

Want to prove that you're a cosine champion at your next math exam? Texas Instruments thinks it has the answer. It's trotting out a limited edition version of the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator that comes in a gold-hued (as TI puts it, "Golden Rat...

TI intros DLP pico projector chipset based on its Tilt & Roll Pixel technology

TI launches DLP pico projector chipset based on its Tilt & Roll architecture

TI's DLP unit promised us brighter, sharper pico projectors when it unveiled its Tilt & Roll Pixel architecture at CES, and it now has the TRP-based silicon to make those projectors possible. The company's new DLP Pico 0.2" TRP chipset produces images with up to twice the brightness and resolution of its ancestor, even while it uses as little as half the power. The company hasn't named hardware partners, but it notes that companies are already building products with the chip; it may not be long before we see the next generation of projector-equipped smartphones and tablets.

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