Blog Slideshow: Energy Harvesters Lift Power From Surprising Sources Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer5/20/2013 8 As energy efficiency becomes more and more a concern for makers of electronics devices, researchers are coming up with new ways to harvest energy from sound vibration, footsteps, ...
Blog Video: 'A Boy & His Atom' Cabe Atwell, Contributing Editor, Design Hardware & Software5/20/2013 2 IBM has been manipulating particles in the atomic scale since the beginning of the 1980s. They created a machine called a Scanning Tunneling Microscope to study atomic magnetism ...
Blog Slideshow: Feds Study Human Brain; DARPA Wants to Make Robots Autonomous Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly5/20/2013 2 The government wants to study your brain, and DARPA wants to use similar information to give robots true autonomy beyond any artificial intelligence developed to date. Sound like ...
Sherlock Ohms Fuse Holder Mismatched to Fuse Howard Gorin 5/20/2013 1 Where I used to work, there was a photo typesetter. This machine would regularly blow a 20-amp fuse, resulting in a service call, lost time, and lost money. The service technician ...
Made by Monkeys The Brake Sensor’s Gone Mad Paul Baltrunas 5/20/2013 2 The vehicle the monkeys messed with was my 2006 Ford F150 4x4 with a standard cab and an eight-foot bed. A few weeks back, the instrument panel began to intermittently illuminate a ...
Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #241: Gloved Hand Controls Airplane's Flight Jacob Hartman5/17/2013 10 Using an accelerometer and a handful of sensors, a team of Colorado State University students has created the Spatial Hand Remote. The gadget controls the flight of a remote control ...
Captain Hybrid It's Still About the Battery Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test5/17/2013 19 Days after Consumer Reports declared that the Tesla Model S might have been the "best car ever," Tesla Motors' stock surged 57 percent. While the stock was soaring, financial ...
Blog Peak Sine Drive Controller Packs 15X the Power Al Presher, Contributing Editor5/17/2013 5 Moog's Naval Systems Business Unit has developed a peak sine drive controller that can handle 15 times as much power as its predecessor and is about 500 cubic inches smaller. The ...
Product News Lantronix Expands Line of Rugged Controller for Sensor Networks Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer5/17/2013 4 Machine-to-machine connectivity solution provider Lantronix Inc. has expanded its line of controllers for sensor networks with the release of a new rugged controller that improves ...
Sensors Help Shrink Medical Devices 5/13/2013 0 Miniaturization allows for the use of sensors in medical applications where they couldn’t previously be used.
Slideshow: Platinum Temperature Sensor Technology 5/6/2013 1 This article explores the inherent properties of platinum temperature sensors, the types of platinum RTD elements available, and typical applications.
M2M Gives Eyes & Ears to the Enterprise 4/12/2013 4 Just as mobile computing has transformed the lives of consumers, machine-to-machine telemetry is revolutionizing business operations in every field, from healthcare to manufacturing to transportation.
Fully Integrated Motion Controllers Power Mobile, Social Robots 4/5/2013 5 While advanced controllers have exponentially increased the number and kind of tasks industrial robots can accomplish, mobile robotics brings a new set of challenges to motion control that favors the compact, increasingly integrated motion control systems.
There’s No Excuse for Not Designing Virtually 4/3/2013 7 When design engineers want more than the default look and feel, software should be customizable and extensible, ensuring they can define appearance and behaviors.
From Dell / Intel® New Paradigms in Design Work Scott Hamilton, vertical market strategist for Dell Precision workstations, 5/2/2013 3
Early in my career, I worked as a draftsman and remember the days of drawing on vellum with numbered pencils and Mylar with plastic lead. This was a fun experience in the sense that I ...
I've been using workstations for more than 10 years and love finding ways to get more performance from my system. With demanding professional applications that require more power each ...
A lasting memory from my first job as an engineer in an auto assembly plant is standing on hard concrete at six in the morning, vending-machine coffee clutched in hand, listening to ...
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is
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