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Cambridge Consultants
Company blog · cambridgeconsultants.com/insightshardwarescience
Cambridge Consultants is the company blog at cambridgeconsultants.com, writing about hardware and science. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this product development consultancy's press releases and product pages, covering projects such as through-wall radar, the XAP processor, a ventilator built during the pandemic, and a bat cane.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We are Capgemini’s global deep tech innovation specialists, spearheading high-impact, transformative and societally beneficial projects for the world’s biggest brands and most ambitious start-ups.
What Hacker News says?
Cambridge Consultants | Multiple Roles | Boston/remote(US) | Full-time | https://cambridgeconsultants.com We are a multi-disciplinary product development company. With origins in Cambridge, UK, and offices in Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, and Singapore, we are a global team of engineers, scientists, designers, and technology consultants helping a wide range of clients solve their most difficult technical challenge…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)”Submitted Beaming 5G from the Stratosphere as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCommercial through-wall radar back in 2005, but using UWB instead of S-band: http://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/news_pr150.html It's not clear what the advantage of using S-band is. Higher resolution, perhaps?
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on “MIT can now see through concrete walls”Submitted SomeSQL: NoSQL and Dependent Types as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhat happens if you use uint8_t in a C program on XAP? Does the compiler emulate 8-bit values using 16-bit fields or is there simply no support for such a type? FWIW, https://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/xap claims support for 8-bit datatypes, but offers further documentation only by email.
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on “Notes on Type Layouts and ABIs in Rust”I saw this demoed by Cambridge Consultants nearly 10 years ago. Let's hope these kids get it to market where it can actually be used by people. Cambridge Consultants' press release about their "bat cane": http://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/news_pr58.html
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on “A "life-changing" invention from the West Bank”There are: ISO 13485 and 62304. And different levels of design and testing for different classes of medical device. For example, I worked on a new ventilator at the start of the pandemic ( https://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/press-releases/building... ). As a medical device that was "in the loop" of keeping the patient alive, some of the strictest restrictions applied. There were 2 MCUs - one doing the control work…
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on “My insulin pump controller has a bug”