The Radio Is Buried in the Dash
Made by Monkeys 12/29/2011 19 comments The old car radio tubes had to be changed frequently. Unfortunately, the radio was buried in the dash.
The Ignition Problem Is Hiding
Sherlock Ohms 12/28/2011 32 comments No matter what was tried, this Ford Fairlane owner just couldn't fix the ignition problem – until many years later.
Gadget Freak Case #201: Plug & Play Sprout Board
Gadget Freak 12/22/2011 23 comments Jared Bouck found that off-the-shelf monitor systems were lacking the features he needed and were cost-prohibitive, so he created the sprout board, which is 100 percent open-source and totally customizable to the needs of implementations.
Slideshow: CAD Jockey's Holiday Gift Guide
CAD/CAM Corner 12/21/2011 18 comments From high-end mobile workstations to novel input devices and a reasonably priced 3D printer/CAD software bundle, there's an array of new products designed to bring holiday cheer to any CAD user.
Case of the Vintage Furnace Blower
Sherlock Ohms 12/21/2011 14 comments Sometimes the best solution is the one that gets you through the short term, especially if it keeps the heater blowing.
3D CAD Brings Battleships to Life
CAD/CAM Corner 12/16/2011 16 comments Donn McKinney is hoping to spark the public's interest in large battleships by leveraging SolidWorks to create a full-scale 3D CAD model of the USS Missouri, which will provide a foundation for building a 1/32nd scale operational replica.
Case of the Powerless Pump
Sherlock Ohms 12/16/2011 27 comments An indicator said a pump was down. Yet the pump kept running, seemingly without power.
Subscription-Based CAD Tool Offered
CAD/CAM Corner 12/15/2011 10 comments As part of its co-creation approach to vehicle design, Local Motors has teamed up with Siemens PLM Software to offer its crowdsourcing community Solid Edge Design1, a fully featured CAD tool priced with a $19.95 monthly subscription fee.
Ethernet for Vehicles Advances
Electronic News & Comment 12/14/2011 23 comments Ethernet in the car, once an unthinkable concept for the automotive industry, has been gaining momentum lately.
Bill Gates Funds 'Big Battery' Startup
Electronic News & Comment 12/13/2011 55 comments One of the great underappreciated issues of renewable energy isn't whether seagulls are banging into turbine blades, but whether intermittent sources of power have any real value in a world without energy storage.
Case of the Anti-Seize Backfires
Sherlock Ohms 12/13/2011 16 comments The ignition problems with your car could track back to the anti-seize compound you used to loosen the plugs.
For Dassault, 3D Sketch Is a Natural
CAD/CAM Corner 12/12/2011 20 comments CATIA Natural Sketch aims to help industrial designers fast-track 2D ideas into 3D models in a way that mimics paper sketching.
Does Machine Vision Need 10-Gigabit Ethernet?
Blog 12/12/2011 12 comments Some machine vision vendors have begun talking seriously about running GigE Vision-equipped cameras and other hardware over 10GigE backbone links in video networks.
Top 5 Robotics Trends of 2011
Blog 12/7/2011 34 comments The five most important robotics trends of the past year enable volume manufacturing and aim at further integration of robotics with machine vision and automated systems.
Top 5 Automotive Trends of 2011
Electronic News & Comment 12/6/2011 24 comments In a year when Detroit launched a comeback, the real news in the automotive world came from Washington, D.C.
Composite Aircraft Repair Advances
Blog 12/6/2011 13 comments Ease of repair is reportedly one of the main reasons Bombardier Aerospace has chosen not to use carbon- or glass-fiber composites in the main fuselage of its composite-heavy CSeries aircraft.
Autodesk Puts PLM in the Cloud
CAD/CAM Corner 12/6/2011 11 comments Autodesk is finally planting a stake in PLM territory with its new Autodesk 360 for PLM offering, a hybrid cloud approach that promises a faster-to-deploy, less expensive alternative to traditional systems.
CAD Upstart Gives Designers Holographic View
CAD/CAM Corner 12/5/2011 15 comments Using virtual-holographic 3D imagery, Infinite Z's new zSpace immersive 3D environment lets users interact and explore 3D models as if they were real, physical objects.
Jobs Still Engineers' Top 2011 Concern
Wolfe's Den 12/5/2011 16 comments Design engineers know as well as anyone that tough times mean that only the toughest and most capable technical folks survive and thrive.
Little Robots Forge Automated Welding Cells
Engineering Materials 12/2/2011 17 comments Industrial robots that do welding and metal fabrication are getting both a lot smaller and a lot larger, depending on the size of the company using them and the type of welding configurations they need.
Laws of Physics Under Attack by Economics
Guest Blogs 12/2/2011 61 comments Investment in STEM programs at all levels is a stated national priority. But this vital education and economic policy objective has slammed into an economic headwind that apparently makes rational budgeting a political impossibility.
Do Engineers Have Appetite for Mobile Apps?
CAD/CAM Corner 12/2/2011 22 comments Unlike the consumer market, which is hungry for all things mobile, engineers remain slightly skeptical about the upside of design tool apps running on mobile platforms.
Cadillac CUEs In-Car Entertainment
Electronic News & Comment 12/1/2011 29 comments Cadillac's CUE is an important addition to the infotainment scene, but its consumer-driven design process may turn out to be more important than the product.
Andrew Morris designed a circuit that could detect a stroke victim's groan and convert the sound into a signal so caregivers would know when help was needed.
New disc magnet motors fit into the design trend of stepping up to closed loop performance while maintaining the cost advantage of stepper motor technology.
At the Design News webinar on June 27, learn all about aluminum extrusion: designing the right shape so it costs the least, is simplest to manufacture, and best fits the application's structural requirements.
On April 21, NASA launched a novel project, putting into orbit three satellites that employ an off-the-shelf commercial smartphone as the control system.
From Dell / Intel® New Paradigms in Design Work Scott Hamilton, vertical market strategist for Dell Precision workstations, 5/2/2013 5
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 ...
For industrial control applications, or even a simple assembly line, that machine can go almost 24/7 without a break. But what happens when the task is a little more complex? That’s where the “smart” machine would come in. The smart machine is one that has some simple (or complex in some cases) processing capability to be able to adapt to changing conditions. Such machines are suited for a host of applications, including automotive, aerospace, defense, medical, computers and electronics, telecommunications, consumer goods, and so on. This radio show will show what’s possible with smart machines, and what tradeoffs need to be made to implement such a solution.
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