Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #214: Radio Touch Sensors Talk to the Smartphone Matt Oppenheim 5/21/2012 20 Matt Oppenheim has developed a radio that speaks to an Android smartphone. He designed the gadget to help the visually impaired learn the layout of a new device. Push a button on ...
Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #213: Android Brings the Mirror to Life Al Linke 5/14/2012 10 Mirror, mirror on the wall, what kind of games can we play today? Al Linke has created an interactive mirror that can be activated with an Android phone. While the number of ...
Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #212: Solar Up-Converter Handles Remote Sensors William Grill 5/7/2012 9 William Grill has created a solar-based up-converter that can process remote sensors wirelessly. The gadget can take relatively low-voltage energy from an alternate source, such as ...
Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #211: High-Speed Photography Circuit James Hartnett4/19/2012 20 How fast can you take a picture? Not as fast as you can illuminate a subject. James Hartnett wanted to capture events with fast movements, like the pop of a balloon, that a shutter ...
Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #210: Digital Timer for Night Swimmers Doug Conner4/2/2012 20 Doug Conner trains with his triathlete group in an outdoor pool. His start time is 6:00 a.m., and during half of the year, it's still dark out then, so he can't see the analog ...
Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #209: Gradually Dimming Incandescent Bulb Dick Bipes 3/29/2012 28 Like many gadget builders, Dick Bipes wanted to turn his windowless garage into a shop. That wasn't easy with illumination coming from two bare 100W incandescent bulbs.
Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #208: Robotics Unleashed With Glove-Operated Hand Adam Allevato 3/16/2012 15 Adam Allevato and his team of fellow mechanical engineering students at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have created a human-like hand that can be operated in environments ...
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Gadget Freak Gadget Freak Case #207: Android Breathalyzer in an Altoids Box Al Linke3/2/2012 26 The innards of Al Linke's metal Altoids box won't keep your breath sweet, but it may keep drunks off the road. Al's Altoids box holds a tiny breathalyzer that may help partiers ...
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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