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Intelligent DAQ is multifunction data acquisition that features user-defined, onboard processing for complete flexibility of system timing and triggering. Instead of a fixed ASIC for controlling device functionality, intelligent DAQ uses an FPGA-based...
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Lindsay Lawler, inventor of the Electric Giraffe, discusses the project's past, present and future, from it's 10 month-long build cycle, to adventures at the Burning Man festival, to it's role in shaping the imaginations of future generations...
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Based on Tamiya's little model of a walking giraffe, the Electric Giraffe is a 17 foot tall robotic giraffe that borrows this toy's walking mechanism. The giraffe uses a small 12 horsepower engine burning propane gas to charge system batteries...
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At the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif., Lantronix, Inc. announced the winners of its annual Wireless Design Contest. The contest challenges engineers, students and hobbyists to develop a creative and practical wireless product using Lantronix's...
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The Visica 2 Treatment System is a premier product for the management and treatment of fibroadenomas. The Visica 2 ICE Probes deliver therapeutic freezing temperatures to targeted tissue to ablate or localize tissue. It is a minimally invasive procedure...
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We’re at the Power Electronics Technology trade show looking at new low drop-out regulator technology that is unique in three ways: it regulates down to almost no volts, sets up with a signal resistor and is designed to be paralleled on the board.
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Lego Mindstorm products have spawned a completely new group of robotic Lego builders; adult fans of Legos. From polynomic robots to shooting robots, engineers are spending their free time exploring the limits of the NXT platform in a robust programming...
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Mounting a 32-bit processor on the back of a standard pitching wedge along with a circuit board and an XYZ accelerometer combined with a gyroscope on the shaft the club calculates a golf swing in real time to a laptop running a program based on LabView...
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Hanson Robotics is focused on emulating a person in robotic form that is capable of over 62 facial reactions and uses advanced Artificial Intelligence software to allow the systems to walk, talk, maintain eye contact, recognize faces and speech patterns...
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Energid has developed a software toolkit that uses kinematic redundancy for robot collision avoidance, joint limitation avoidance, and minimized motion and optimized strength for simulating and controlling the most complex of mechanisms of robotic control...
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The CoroBot is based on a 1.2GHz VIA Mini-ITX motherboard with 512Mbytes of RAM and a 20Gbyte hard disk suitable for software platforms like Microsoft’s Robotics Studio . The four wheel drive system supports 802.11 wireless and a 640x480 USB camera. The...
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Personal mobility was changed with balancing vehicles, however most personal transports require you to stand. Toyota now introduces the iSwing, a sit-in personal transport that is design to move among people or go on the road.
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FPGAs applications aren't all boring, some are fun and games. National Instruments demonstrates the use of FPGA-controlled pads to make an arcade game from the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose.
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At the Embedded Systems Conference in Silicon Valley, Lantronix holds it's annual Wireless Design Contest. Engineers from around the globe were called on to stretch their imaginations and wirelessly network-enable a machine or device. This is no small...
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The rugged Ultra Mobile Personal Computer designed by Black Diamond Advanced Technology features Modular Technology through a back interface allowing additional ports, power, or even actual devices, such as a digital camera or an RFID reader. Encased...