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Tesla Motors' Zak Edson and Engineering TV take a look at the Tesla Roadster's powertrain and battery system on a rolling chassis that was displayed at the 2009 NAIAS. With a 0 to 60 mph acceleration of 3.9 seconds and a 14,000 rpm redline, the...
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Machine Design's Lee Teschler talks with Zak Edson from Tesla Motors about the Tesla Roadster as well as the recently unveiled Tesla Model S. Tesla is the only production automaker already selling highway-capable EVs in North America or Europe. With...
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Andrew Culhane from TORC technologies demonstrates their AutonoNav-Mini, a pared down version of their AutonoNav autonomous navigation system for unmanned vehicles. Key features of the AutonoNav include optimized route planning, motion planning parameters...
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The WaySight is a handheld monocular device with built-in sensors and wireless communications that is used for localizing and commanding a target waypoint to an Unmanned System. The operator sights a target, such as a suspected IED, by placing the WaySight...
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Futaba’s FED is a vacuum type display device using Spindt-type emitters as the electron source. The operating principle of an FED is the same as a cathode ray tube (CRT). For an FED, electrons emitted from the electron source hit the color phosphor to...
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Futaba's custom VFD modules integrate a Vacuum Fluorescent Display, a display controller, driver IC's and a power supply on a single PCB. VFD's have excellent readability with a wide viewing angle, high reliability and long lifespan. Futaba...
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Universal Audio, a manufacturer of high-quality vintage audio hardware and DSP software plug-ins for digital audio workstations, has won numerous awards for their line of UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins & PCIe DSP accelerator cards. At the heart of every UAD...
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The ADSP-21469 offers the highest performance – 450 MHz/2700 MFLOPs -- within the fourth generation of Analog Devices' SHARC Processor family. The fourth generation of SHARC Processors also offers hardware-based filter accelerators, audio and application...
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Analog Devices new fourth generation of SHARC floating-point digital signal processors are used in a wide variety of industrial and instrumentation, automotive audio, and home theater applications. ADI's Denis Labrecque discusses the SHARC's implementation...
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The ATC5K is the latest self-contained, hands-free digital video cam from Oregon Scientific. One major upgrade from the ATC2K is a built-in 1.5" color LCD to help ensure you get the shots you want. And it's built for abuse: it's waterproof...
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Power up the SimpleCast, enter your zip code, and your local weather information instantly appears on the portable device. Covering 99% of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii, the SimpleCast displays today's iconic weather forecast and gives temperature...
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Oregon Scientific's David Fuhriman gave us a run-down of their 2009 line-up of weather stations, which include wireless devices that display and sense temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind, rainfall, dew point, wind-chill, and heat index...
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Chinese automaker BYD's E6 is an all-electric vehicle five-passenger family-oriented crossover vehicle. Featuring BYD's Fe battery technology, the range per charge is expected to be 249mi, without compromising on performance: claimed 0-60mph acceleration...
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Chinese automobile manufacturer BYD Auto's Henry Li walks us through the F6DM plug-in hybrid sedan's powertrain. BYD's Dual Mode (DM) Electric Vehicles combine a pure-electric mode with a hybrid drive system that incorporates a small gasoline...
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Engineering TV visited Myers Motors and Brad Hirsch at the NAIAS in Detroit to take a look at their affordable lithium-powered personal electric vehicle. The vision of Myers Motors is for every garage to have a sub-$20,000 highway speed electric vehicle...