What's Next. Right Now. DNTV 1/11/2012 Post a comment Mouser urges you to ensure your product life span by not only ordering what's new, but what's next.
Chevy Volt Structure Enhancements DNTV 1/10/2012 1 comment To help the Chevy Volt handle side impacts, GM engineers will beef up a laterally oriented cross-car structure and add steel to longitudinally oriented members around the battery.
American Physical Security Group's SW12 wedge barrier DNTV 5/25/2011 6 comments Truck stopper: American Physical Security Group's SW12 wedge barrier can stop a 15,000-lb truck travelling at 50 mph. The 6,000-lb barrier can be raised in approximately one second by an electric servo actuator from Moog Industrial Controls.
Gadget Freak #148 - Interactive Beer Pong Table DNTV 4/13/2011 1 comment Since Cameron Hoerig is an engineering student at the University of Cincinnati, the idea of building a typical beer pong table was out of the question. “I’m an electrical engineering student, so I should have a table that stands out,” he says.
NI Week 2010 Keynote Optical Sensing DNTV 10/13/2010 1 comment Using light to measure current and voltage: Engineers at NIWeek 2010 make measurements in the presence of electrical strikes
GF170 Smoking Permitted, but Bring a Roast DNTV 8/23/2010 Post a comment Anyone can drop a roast or spare ribs into a commercial meat smoker, but Peter Rauch decided to create an electronically controlled smoker that uses a programmable controller, touch-screen human-machine interface, and a network connection.
GF 169_IR Remote Control Toggles Appliances 4 DNTV 8/12/2010 Post a comment Bill Bowden's infrared (IR) receiver decodes the signals from remote controls and uses the data to individually turn on or off four circuits via an isolated relay circuit.
GF 169_IR Remote Control Toggles Appliances 1 DNTV 8/12/2010 Post a comment Bill Bowden's infrared (IR) receiver decodes the signals from remote controls and uses the data to individually turn on or off four circuits via an isolated relay circuit.
GF 169_IR Remote Control Toggles Appliances 2 DNTV 8/12/2010 Post a comment Bill Bowden's infrared (IR) receiver decodes the signals from remote controls and uses the data to individually turn on or off four circuits via an isolated relay circuit.
GF 169_IR Remote Control Toggles Appliances 3 DNTV 8/12/2010 Post a comment Bill Bowden's infrared (IR) receiver decodes the signals from remote controls and uses the data to individually turn on or off four circuits via an isolated relay circuit.
GF168 Gas Sensor Video 1 DNTV 7/14/2010 Post a comment Natanel Eizenberg decided to build a sensor module that would detect and measure carbon monoxide and methane to help ensure safe environments for his coworkers and family.
Vending Machine Delivers Every Time DNTV 6/1/2010 Post a comment Ryan Yourishin, William Lindenthal, Nathan Zeleski and Justin Denard have designed a vending machine that delivers. So when your friends want to come over to watch the "big game," tell them to bring exact change.
EZ-IO Bone Penetration DNTV 1/4/2010 Post a comment Watch a demonstration of the power and ease with which the EZ-IO can penetrate bones as fragile as an egg.
Microchip’s ESC Boston Training DNTV 9/25/2009 Post a comment Due to overwhelming demand for Microchip’s in-booth training courses at this week’s Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, Microchip had to move the classes to a larger room outside of the show floor.
Microchip’s ESC Boston Training Classes DNTV 9/25/2009 Post a comment Due to overwhelming demand for Microchip’s in-booth training courses at this week’s Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, Microchip had to move the classes to a larger room outside of the show floor.
Hamster Generates Electrical Current DNTV 2/25/2009 Post a comment Georgia Tech recently fitted a hamster with a four-nanogenerator jacket, and the hamster-powered device generated 0.5 nanoamps (nA) of current.
Nanogenerator Sheet in Action DNTV 2/25/2009 Post a comment A sheet containing tens of thousands of the nanogenerators could fit beneath a Blackberry's touch screen, enabling the handheld device to draw power from a user who taps a finger against it.
STM Robotic Vision System DNTV 2/11/2009 Post a comment At the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, STM demonstrated a robotic vision system based on its VS6724, a 2-megapixel single-chip camera module and the STR912FA ARM based 32-bit microcontroller.
Controlling the World’s Largest Machine DNTV 1/25/2009 Post a comment To control the world’s largest machine, the Large Hadron Collider, CERN engineers chose programmable automation controllers (PACs) based on NI LabVIEW and implemented a critical control system that synchronously positions more than 500 motion axes.
Nucor Refines Steel Recycling Using NI Hardware and Software DNTV 1/25/2009 Post a comment Using hardware and software from National Instruments, Nucor developed a variety of automation systems that have greatly reduced the amount of electricity used and eliminated potential safety issues at its Marion, Ohio facility.
NI Technology Is Used on the 1,200 km Ormen Lange Pipeline DNTV 1/25/2009 Post a comment With the LabVIEW Embedded Module for Blackfin Processors, one engineer was able to reduce development time by generating more than 50,000 lines of C code from the LabVIEW graphical environment in less than 12 months.
Thinking Beyond the Automobile DNTV 9/11/2008 Post a comment Tom Watson, vice president of light vehicle systems at ArvinMeritor and former lead engineer of the Ford Hybrid Escape rides the mechatronic EasyGlider, an electric scooter that reportedly weighs and costs less than the Segway.
IO Solutions for Temperature Monitoring DNTV 9/4/2008 Post a comment The SNAP PAC system has a full line of multi-channel analog input modules that connect seamlessly to the most common temperature measurement sensors, including thermocouples, ICTDs and RTDs.
Industrial Robot Plays Air Hockey DNTV 6/25/2008 Post a comment An industrial robot at the Freescale Technology Forum used a 32-bit processor to control a robot that plays air hockey. See the technology behind the robot and watch it in action.
SwarmBots in Action at Sensors Expo DNTV 6/11/2008 Post a comment Watch this dramatic demonstration to see how SwarmBots use the sensing capability of cockroaches and group behavior of ants and bees to accomplish tasks.
Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication DNTV 6/5/2008 Post a comment With V-to-V communication, vehicles can pass constant stream of information between one another that tells their exact location and speed relative to one another.
Lab Tests Show Knee Brace Power Generation DNTV 2/14/2008 Post a comment When in the generative braking energy harvesting mode, this knee brace isprogrammed to only engage toward the end of the leg¿s swing phase to produce electricity. Subjects wear masks to measure the metabolic energy expended during the test.
Continuous Power Generation from Knee Brace DNTV 2/14/2008 Post a comment When in continuous generation energy harvesting mode, the knee-brace generator generates electricity whenever the knee is extended regardless of whether the knee is accelerating or decelerating.
Inforbix is leveraging its CAD and product data access technology to power up a free iPad app that lets mobile users search and access engineering data.
Unlike his friends in engineering programs, blogger Jon Titus had little need for calculus except in a few of his college physical-chemistry labs and classes.
In the wake of the Chevy Volt fire investigations, sales are down, and General Motors' (GM) CEO Dan Akerson is blaming the downturn on a spate of bad publicity.
Thanks to embedded electronics, medical devices are getting smaller and smarter than ever. Pacemakers and implantable defibrillators are now able to call physicians. MRIs, CT scanners, and ultrasound machines are gaining mobility. And the venerable Band-Aid may soon be able to detect illnesses ranging from fevers to heart arrhythmias. On February 21, join Design News senior editor Charles Murray for a wide-ranging discussion, "Embedded Angles for Medical Products," which will explore the latest developments in medical electronics. The discussion will examine advances in medical device technology and offer an inside look at the embedded electronics behind it.
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