Double Dutch
Mechanical orchestra to make sweet music at DESIGN West
Colin Holland
3/15/2012 5:10 PM EDT
The Intel Industrial Computer in Concert is a robotic orchestra, synchronizing a host of plastic and metal percussion instruments that ping, pong, bong and blink blue-hued light each time a nearby paint gun strikes them with a tiny rubber ball.
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Patk0317
I too saw this at Embedded World (right outside of Hall 4). Pretty impressive! Go see it in San Jose ...
Students demo intelligent car designs
Colin Holland
3/8/2012 3:35 PM EST
At the recent Embedded World in Nuremberg, three universities - the University of Applied Sciences Landshut, the University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf and the Czech Technology University - ran demonstrations which showed the implementation of the Freescale technology.
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t.alex
Students do learn a great deal through exposure like this project. Great challenge!
Video: Did space station provides dev kit inspiration?
Colin Holland
2/3/2012 2:06 PM EST
The latest development kit has a novel design which could have been inspired by the NASA International Space Station.
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msar2020
I'd love an electronics kit like this - keypads, LCD display, CCD display, easy enought to connect ...
When technology keeps you waiting
Colin Holland
2/2/2012 4:17 AM EST
New bus information displays installed in preparation for the Summer Olympics in Weymouth had to be removed because they were too noisy!
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sharps_eng
I kinda feel for the suppliers - making something work across the whole range of weather conditions ...
Colin Holland
12/12/2011 7:51 AM EST
OSCAR 1, the first amateur satellite, was launched on December 12, 1961, just four years after the launch of world's first satellite, Sputnik I.
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Survey sees changes to IC testing approach
Colin Holland
5/18/2011 8:38 AM EDT
A survey has recently been carried out by Q-Star Test (Brugge, Belgium) of engineers, managers and technical personnel involved in the design, the implementation of design-for-test (DFT) and the creation and running of comprehensive test programs on ICs
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Apple iOS-based oscilloscope under the spotlight
Colin Holland
4/27/2011 5:28 PM EDT
A few weeks ago I did a short news story on the use of the Cypress PSoC 3 programmable system-on-chip in the the Oscium iMSO-104 mixed signal oscilloscope is for use on iPod touch, iPhone and iPad.
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LAZER
TOY... If I want an oscilloscope I would buy one - the real one. This is only aproximatization of ...
A good walk spoiled by technology?
Colin Holland
4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
I cant say I am a big fan of golf, my pleasure comes from competitors with bigger balls, but even I might feel sorry for the players if one vision takes off.
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Rick Nelson
But the key question is, does it provide information on the exact location of the ball? I know where ...
1 GHz and Beyond: Challenges in high-field NMR magnets
Colin Holland
4/12/2011 3:24 PM EDT
In a blog on Agilent's Spinsights site Paul Noonan explains that his efforts since joining Agilent as a principal magnet engineer in late 2009 have focused on high-field NMR.
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Disposable sensors just the tip of the iceberg
Colin Holland
2/28/2011 3:21 AM EST
A grant of around $1.4 million by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has been awarded to create a wireless network of sensors that will reveal the flow of glaciers at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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cdhmanning
"Disposable" just means that the sensors are cheaper than the cost of trying to recover them. That ...
