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Infineon and Auto Electronics sponsored the Rev Up Fuel Efficiency Design Contest, where engineers took the "green challenge" to design a solution using Infineon products that enables or improves energy efficiency for automotive applications...
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With Totally Integrated Automation (TIA), Siemens provides a comprehensive, integrated range of products and systems for efficient automation of the entire production workflow – for all industries. TIA enables the entire production workflow to be automated...
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Ed Housler continues his demonstration of Siemens automation solutions, including PROFINET and SIMATIC machine vision sensors. PROFINET is the open and manufacturer independent Industrial Ethernet Standard from PROFIBUS International, ensuring a uniform...
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Whether in manufacturing, logistics or distribution, if you want to know everything about the production or the flow of goods at all times and at all locations, Siemens electronic RFID factory automation systems provide a comprehensive solution. Meaningful...
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Barron Stone and Chetan Kapoor have conducted a teardown of the Nintendo Wii to test various components using National Instruments LabVIEW and PXI based modular instruments. In Part 2 of this Engineering TV video, Barron discusses using the PXI-5114,...
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At NIWeek 2008, Barron Stone and Chetan Kapoor chose the Nintendo Wii to demonstrate using National Instruments technology to comprehensively test complex electronic systems. Nintendo Wii is a next generation gaming console that competes with the likes...
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Flying Sensor's partnership with Hyperblimp allows them to provide a highly efficient and patented airship design capable of autonomous as well as remote controlled flight. The Hyperblimp is an ultra-streamlined, low drag, helium-filled airship that...
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Charlie Stiernberg discusses optimizing wireless DAQ networks using National Instruments LabVIEW. LabVIEW provides a wide range of connectivity options through open protocols, instrument drivers, and a development environment that you can use to build...
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At NIWeek 2008, National Instruments unveiled 10 new Wi-Fi and Ethernet DAQ devices. National Instruments Wi-Fi data acquisition (DAQ) devices combine IEEE 802.11 wireless or Ethernet communication, direct sensor connectivity, and the flexibility of NI...
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THX partnered with BG Radia to design and develop the BGX-4850, an in-wall subwoofer system that delivers THX Ultra2 Certified performance in a design that fits completely inside a standard 2x4-inch stud-wall. The BGX-4850 system consists of four bass...
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IMPASS is a wheel-leg hybrid robot that can walk in unstructured environments by independently extending, or retracting, three actuated spokes on each wheel. IMPASS stands for Intelligent Mobility Platform with Actuated Spoke System. The robot has been...
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DARwIn is a fully autonomous humanoid robot capable of bipedal walking and performing human like motions. Developed at the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) at Virginia Tech, DARwIn is a research platform for studying robot locomotion and...
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Home cinema has finally caught up to Hollywood, and Schneider Optics makes it possible. The Cine-Digitar Anamorphic 1.33x Lens System enables 16:9 digital projectors to fill the entire height and width of 2.35:1 format screens with cinema-quality images...
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While woodframe structures have historically performed well with regard to life safety in regions of moderate to high seismicity, these types of low-rise structures have sustained significant structural and non-structural damage in recent earthquakes...
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At Colorado State University, Prof. John van de Lindt has applied a base isolation system to a light-frame wood building for shake-table testing. The test structure is supported on a base isolation system consisting of four sliding bearings. The bearings...