Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #242: A Gadget's Call for Assistance Andrew Morris 6/18/2013 0 Friends of Andrew Morris needed a device that could detect a stroke victim's groan and convert the sound into a signal so caregivers would know when help was needed.
Blog Slideshow: Flying Robots Take Action Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly6/12/2013 39 Most flying robots, but not all, are small, so they can access hard-to-reach places. Some designed to emulate insects can be as tiny as real insects. Most flying robots use a ...
CAD/CAM Corner Video: Doodle3D Prints Designs From 2D Drawings Cabe Atwell, Contributing Editor, Design Hardware & Software5/21/2013 6 There's more fun coming our way on the 3D printing news front, as The Netherlands-based tech company FabLab Amersfoort has developed a new device that serves as a sketching tool for ...
Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #241: Gloved Hand Controls Airplane's Flight Jacob Hartman5/17/2013 35 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 ...
Blog Video: Get Creative With the World's First 3D Pen Lauren Muskett, Assistant Managing Editor5/9/2013 21 Can you imagine using a pen to create any 3D object you can think of? Well, Boston-based WobbleWorks LLC has created just that -- a 3D printing pen. Coining itself as the most ...
Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #240: MEMS Mics Up Telescope Jerald Cogswell5/9/2013 19 One of the problems with wildlife video photography is that you can get close to the animal with a telescopic video lens, but what about the sound? It's still far, far away.
Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #239: Bridge Rectifier Eliminates LED Light Flicker Bernard R. Smith Jr.4/29/2013 57 When I converted my holiday lights from incandescent mini-lights to LEDs, my wife and daughter did not want them in the house. That was a surprise. They're both visual people, and I ...
Blog Video: Oxford RobotCar Takes It to Another Level Cabe Atwell, Contributing Editor, Design Hardware & Software4/26/2013 24 As engineers, one of our biggest challenges is to lower costs. Being able to prove concepts with a nice, large budget and having access to sophisticated sensors and mechanisms is ...
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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