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 ...
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 ...
Engineering Materials Video: Worm Hooks Inspire Better Bandages Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly5/17/2013 8 The hooks a parasitic worm uses to penetrate its host's intestines have inspired researchers to develop an adhesive patch that adheres better to wet, soft tissue, improving the ...
Guest Blogs 8 Ways to Design End-of-Life Into Your Products Clinton McDade, Schaefer Systems International5/16/2013 9 As the awareness and expense of environmental issues increase, and raw material costs march ever higher, Designing for Disassembly is receiving a lot of airplay as a "green" and ...
Blog Harvard, MIT Researchers Design 3D Printed, Self-Assembling Robots Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer5/16/2013 8 Researchers from MIT and Harvard University have teamed up to design a 3D printed robot that can crawl like an inchworm and can assemble itself when given a jolt of electricity.
Engineering Materials Video: Seahorse Armor Inspires Robot Design Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly5/16/2013 3 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are designing a robotic arm that takes inspiration from the loose, flexible, yet very strong structure of the armored plates ...
Made by Monkeys The Messed Up RF Generator Steve Lindberg 5/15/2013 6 I appreciate products that possess exquisite quality. One of my first was a synthesized RF generator. I have never seen a manual for this piece, but I managed to get it working ...
Guest Blogs Datacenter Security: Is Protection at the Building & Room Enough? Randy Ferentchak, DIRAK5/14/2013 1 Most datacenters today are protected with sophisticated security systems for the building and rooms in which the datacenter enclosures are housed. This includes RFID card access and ...
Blog Slideshow: How 3D Printed Body Parts Are Changing Medicine Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer5/13/2013 15 In the 1990s, scientists received a lot of attention for their work cloning animals (remember Dolly the sheep?), and questions were raised about whether scientists were taking ...
Specifying Captive Panel Screws by Design 2/26/2013 5 Understanding the key drivers that influence the choice of captive panel screws helps engineers select one for their application.
Electronics Work Inside the Body, Then Disappear 12/11/2012 19 Researchers have created devices that can dissipate in liquid, allowing for less invasive internal treatment for wounds, as well as other widespread applications for electronic devices.
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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