Engineering TV : Software

adLib Software Demo

CurtisEllzey — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:04:00 GMT

Jason Barton, Co-Founder of EchoStorm, demonstrates the capabilities of their adLib software. adLib is EchoStorm Worldwide’s flagship product providing advanced video, metadata, and audio processing for Defense and Intelligence applications. adLib provides a unique web-based, net-centric, standards compliant solution for capturing, processing, storing, and disseminating Full Motion Video (FMV) from manned and unmanned Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and ground based sensors. Also watch this episode: EchoStorm's adLib Technology. For more information, visit EchoStorm.

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EchoStorm's adLib Technology

CurtisEllzey — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:53:00 GMT
EchoStorm's easy-to-use adLib video and data management software revolutionizes “situational awareness.” No other software in the marketplace can simultaneously capture, standardize, process, and fuse video, images, and data from multiple sources in quite the same way. adLib distributes this information in a near real-time, secure format to all users, regardless of their location, bandwidth, or device. Imagine securely integrating and distributing video, images, and data from in-theater combat systems, healthcare databases, traffic cameras, fixed surveillance systems, television broadcast feeds, and more - to any networked device. Also watch this episode: adLib Software Demo. For more information, visit EchoStorm.

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Designing for the 5-Axis Router

CurtisEllzey — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:00:00 GMT
Designing for a 5-Axis Router can be a complex process - Ken Netzel, Senior Engineer - Body Design and Fabrication at Lightning Hybrids, describes his work on the LH4 vehicle and the LH3 they are designing for the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE challenge. Lightning Hybrids has developed a unique and ultra-fast design to prototype process that allows for ultra fast design iteration, and the ability to develop a variety of options and configurations, with a relatively small investment. Also watch these episodes on Lightning Hybrids: Lightning Hybrids on Engineering TV. For more information, go to: Lightning Hybrids and Diversified Machine Systems.

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Lightning Hybrids Design Process

CurtisEllzey — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT
Jude Hueber reveals the process at Lightning Hybrids for designing and fabricating their LH4 and LH3 vehicles in-house, from the drivetrain and the body panels, to their own custom designed circuitry. Lightning Hybrids is an automotive research and manufacturing company that has designed a hydraulic hybrid retrofit system and two 100 MPG hydraulic-biodiesel hybrid cars. Also watch these episodes on Lightning Hybrids: Lightning Hybrids on Engineering TV. For more information, go to: Lightning Hybrids.

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Minitech CNC Mini-Mill 3 Pro

CurtisEllzey — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT
You don't have to be a fortune 500 company or a computer wiz to reap the benefits of CAD/CAM. Minitech makes a full line of CNC machines, along with software and accessories allowing you to become more productive in making the parts you need. The CNC Mini-Mill 3 Pro is Minitech's most advanced desktop, PC-based CNC Mini-Mill featuring THK linear slides and ball-screws on all axes. Make amazingly accurate parts using Minitech's complete desktop manufacturing system. For more information, go to: Minitech Machinery.

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iDigi Instant Wireless M2M Solutions

CurtisEllzey — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:00:00 GMT
Optimized for green applications, iDigi development kits include the hardware, hosted software and services necessary to easily develop sustainable applications. Digi International's Senior VP of R&D, Joel Young, demonstrates some of the possibilities the iDigi solution offers. The iDigi Energy Solution includes: Digi's wired and wireless communication gateways and ZigBee modules and adapters, the iDigi platform, which provides management, messaging and storage services, connecting remote assets and enterprise applications, and much more. Also watch this episode: Digi Wireless Design Contest. For more information, go to: iDigi.

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Digi Wireless Design Contest

CurtisEllzey — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:00:00 GMT
Running through March 31, 2010, the green design contest from Digi International was created to promote the development of sustainable applications. Contest categories include energy saving for electrical consumption, energy saving for water consumption, energy saving for natural gas or fuel consumption, and eliminating or monitoring air pollution. Contestants will be required to use one of three new iDigi wireless development kits. The contest will award more than $20,000 in total prize money. Also watch this episode: iDigi Instant Wireless M2M Solutions. For more information, go to: Digi Wireless Design Contest.

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HōME YouTube Demo

CurtisEllzey — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:00:00 GMT
The HōME Application Creation Platform is a flexible client-server architecture that enables product development teams to create custom pointer-based applications suitable for TV. HōME makes it easy to display large volumes of content, enable consistent presentation of content from any source, and makes it easy to navigate that content using a pointer. In this video, Hillcrest Labs' Matthew Liberty demonstrates the Kodak Theatre HD Player's YouTube navigation with their Freespace in-air pointing and motion control solution. Hillcrest Labs' patented Freespace motion control technology utilizes iMEMS motion sensing technology from Analog Devices. For more information, go to: Hillcrest Labs and iMEMS Accelerometers.

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Home Heartbeat Broadband Portal

CurtisEllzey — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT
The Home Heartbeat Base Station acts as a wireless relay. It takes in information from the sensors and reports that information back out, to your Home Key device when within range of the home, and to your cell phone via text messaging when you are outside of the home. Eaton has also set up a broadband gateway option - allowing you to log in to an internet page and view the status of all your sensors in real time. Dave Richards, Eaton's Product Manager, elaborates on this new feature for Engineering TV. For more information, go to: Home Heartbeat.

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THINERGY Application Development Platform

CurtisEllzey — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:00:00 GMT
THINERGY thin-film micro-energy cells deliver a highly efficient, safe, rechargeable and powerful energy storage solution in an extremely thin form factor—roughly the size of a postage stamp. The newly released Application Development Platform (ADP) tool from Infinite Power Solutions provides a simple method to charge, discharge and monitor THINERGY MECs during device evaluation and system integration. The ADP’s built-in demo mode provides pre-defined loads (constant resistance, constant current, pulsed current and standard LED load) to discharge the battery while displaying the time, state of charge, and discharge voltage/current. In addition, the ADP serves as a development platform to allow users to develop their own applications on a separate breadboard, and allows the user to connect various energy harvesting circuits to charge the battery—enabling the developer to easily prototype and emulate their entire microelectronic system. Also watch this episode: THINERGY Micro-Energy Cells. For more information, go to: Infinite Power Solutions.

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IMAPCAR Image Processor for Automobiles

CurtisEllzey — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT
Seventy percent of vehicle accidents resulting in death or serious injury are caused by delayed driver recognition of danger. Safety systems that use image recognition and other sensing technologies to detect hazards and warn the driver can play an important role in reducing the number of serious vehicle accidents. Using the IMAPCAR processor from NEC Electronics, a computer can recognize road markers such as white lines, as well as moving vehicles and pedestrians, in real time. This new technology will allow automobile manufacturers to create collision-avoidance and other vehicle-safety systems. For more info, go to: NEC Electronics' IMAPCAR.

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Huggable Robot Interface

CurtisEllzey — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT
The Huggable companion robot from MIT is designed to be much more than a fun interactive robotic companion. It is designed to function as a team member that is an essential member of a triadic interaction. Therefore, the Huggable is not designed to replace any particular person in a social network, but rather to enhance that human social network. The MIT Media Lab has developed several interfaces for the Huggable: a web interface to enable a remote operator (e.g., educator, grandparent, friend, etc.) to view the state of robot and evoke its behaviors, “stale panorama” interface, and a sympathetic interface that consists of a waldo-like device which maps to the Huggable robot’s body and joint angles. Also watch this episode: MIT's Huggable Robotic Companion. For more info, go to: MIT Personal Robots Group.

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MIT's Huggable Robotic Companion

CurtisEllzey — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT
The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion being developed at the MIT Media Lab for healthcare, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is a sophisticated robot featuring a full body sensitive skin with over 1500 sensors, quiet back-drivable actuators, video cameras in the eyes, microphones in the ears, an inertial measurement unit, a speaker, and an embedded PC with 802.11g wireless networking. MIT's Personal Robots Group is working with Microsoft Research, using Microsoft Robotic Studio to develop the communication avatar implementation. The early technical development of the Huggable was supported in part by a Microsoft iCampus grant. Also watch this episode: Huggable Robot Interface. For more info, go to: MIT Personal Robots Group.

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.NET Microframework Devices - Part 2

CurtisEllzey — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT
Microsoft's Jonathan Kagle discusses .NET Micro Framework applications from Freescale and InThink, as well as a fully integrated development experience with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual C# 2008 Express Edition — along with interoperability — which provides developers with powerful debugging and emulation capabilities and a more flexible migration path for .NET developers and those with existing native code modules. “The .NET Micro Framework continues to marry modern computing models with rich embedded capabilities, offering developers a highly productive approach to making smart devices, such as a home energy management system that manages your appliances based on the current energy rates and your needs, or a glucose meter that uploads your readings to a common place that is accessible to your caregivers,” said Colin Miller, product unit manager at Microsoft. “With the version 3.0 release, the .NET Micro Framework adds a number of major enhancements, enabling developers to be more versatile and flexible in creating powerful embedded systems.” Also watch these episodes: Microsoft .NET Micro Framework Version 3.0 and .NET Microframework Devices - Part 1.

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.NET Microframework Devices - Part 1

CurtisEllzey — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT
The .NET Micro Framework is a platform that enables developers to more quickly develop embedded systems that are smart, securely connected and easier to manage. Jonathan Kagle, Microsoft's .NET Micro Framework Senior Program Manager, introduces us to some of the hardware developers are using in Micro Framework devices, including entries from SJJ Embedded Micro Solutions, Crossbow, GHI Electronics, Atmel, and Digi International. Also watch these episodes: Microsoft .NET Micro Framework Version 3.0 and .NET Microframework Devices - Part 2.

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