Mouser signs disty deal with Basler, offers maker-ready Bluefruit

Mouser Electronics Inc. has reached a global distribution partnership with Basler, a leading global manufacturer of high-quality digital cameras and lenses. The company’s embedded vision products combine the latest chip and software developments with industrial machine-vision technology for cost-effective board-level camera systems suitable for factory automation, logistics, robotics, and the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). 

The Basler product line includes the dart series camera modules and Embedded Vision Kits for easy evaluation and development. The Basler dart camera line has been developed to meet the requirements of a broad variety of vision applications. Basler’s Embedded Vision Kits provide developers with easy-to-use kits with all the components needed for hassle-free camera integration or evaluation.

Feather nRF52 Bluefruit from Adafruit

Mouser also recently announced that it is now stocking the Feather nRF52 Bluefruit from Adafruit, a line of standalone and stackable development boards that are Arduino-compatible. The Bluetooth low energy development board comes with built-in USB and battery charging. Using the powerful onboard Nordic system-on-chip (SoC), engineers and makers can run code directly on the board without requiring an external microcontroller, which improves performance and power consumption for a variety of Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, lighting, MIDI audio, and other applications.