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NASA Is Developing Nuclear-Powered Engines to Take Humans To Mars

Catwell — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:10:16 GMT

Artist's impression of a nuclear propulsion system that could send humans to Mars. (Image Credit: NASA) NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama., is exploring new and faster ways to travel to Mars, and one of those innova...(read more)

Monitoring Driver Behavior with AI

dychen — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:21:01 GMT

Various research efforts have used image and video processing to approach the problem of monitoring human driver behavior. Driver recklessness, tiredness, and distraction can be detected using a Driver Monitoring System (DMS), a future-proof, smart d...(read more)

What Exactly is V2G?

srutledge — Wed, 11 May 2022 14:07:00 GMT

What is V2G Technology (Vehicle to Grid)? Energy efficiency, decarbonization, and electrification can help overcome the climate catastrophe caused by energy and mobility sectors. Electric vehicles (EVs) play an important role in decarboni...(read more)

SpaceX launches the first all-private crew to the ISS – on way home soon

Catwell — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:19:00 GMT

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket with three private astronauts aboard, heading to the International Space Station on April 8th. (Image Credit: Axiom Space) Poised to return to Earth, and nothing terrible happened. That’s an achievment. On A...(read more)

CAN communication with Hercules Safety Microcontroller - part 4: Bus Load Firmware

Jan Cumps — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 20:08:56 GMT

I'm trying out CAN communication. I have a mix of can devices and monitors available now.In this post, I'm building a device that keeps the CAN bus traffic high at all times, and can listen for particular traffic on that bus. Whatever anyone ...(read more)

A Smart Car Key - What's Inside?

Jan Cumps — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 19:21:02 GMT

I opened an end-of-life smart car key.It uses radio for locking / unlocking and IR to switch the vehicle off and on.A deep dive is available here. The type of key here is one that you can use from a distance to open or close the car, but that yo...(read more)

The Blinker in a Side-View Mirror - What's Inside?

Jan Cumps — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 14:32:55 GMT

I had an accident last Monday on my way to meet balearicdynamics.No one got hurt, but my side-view mirror is damaged.There's a blinker in the mirror housing that's now exposed. A good opportunity to see how it's designed. Here's a view of ...(read more)

Hercules Microcontroller: Correctly create and load Firmware with Error Checking and Correction (TMS570LC43 and RM57 specific)

Jan Cumps — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 14:48:48 GMT

This is a bit of a niche blog.The TI Hercules has two family members that always have memory parity checking on.That's very good, but requires a dedicated way of loading the memory into the flash. In the past this was documented. But the doc...(read more)

Create and Measure signals with Hercules High End Timer (HET) - 6: Many Precision Timeout Counters with ARM Interrupt

Jan Cumps — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:12:57 GMT

This is my first self written HET program that actually works. You can define a number of timers and let them create an interrupt when they expire. I've created 8 independent 1µs resolution timers in this example. Many more are possible*1.All pre...(read more)

Create and Measure signals with Hercules High End Timer (HET) - 5: Getting Started with the Wave Form Simulator

Jan Cumps — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:43:01 GMT

A very simple HET example: Project1 - generate 2 PWM signals and simulate them with Synapticad Wave Viewer.In the previous posts I reviewed a HET application note called HET Getting Started. This time I use another application note called HET Getting...(read more)

Create and Measure signals with Hercules High End Timer (HET) - 4: Getting Started

Jan Cumps — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:42:40 GMT

A very simple HET example: Project0 - generate a PWM signal with a fixed duty cycle.The previous posts were a showcase: let the timer module do some calculations while generating and and measuring signals. In this much simpler post let's take a step ...(read more)

Create and Measure signals with Hercules High End Timer (HET) - 3: Measure a PWM Signal and HET Interrupts

Jan Cumps — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:48:10 GMT

This project uses the timers of a TI Hercules microcontroller to generate complex digital signals and to measure digital signals. In this post: measure the the duty cycle of the previous post and take actions when it's about a certain range. The...(read more)

Create and Measure signals with Hercules High End Timer (HET) - 2: Generate Dynamic Duty Cycle

Jan Cumps — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 18:00:32 GMT

This project uses the timers of a TI Hercules microcontroller to generate complex digital signals and to measure digital signals. In this post: create a triangle wave by modulating the duty cycle of a fixed frequency pulse wave. This ...(read more)

Create and Measure signals with Hercules High End Timer (HET) - 1: adapt TI example to a LaunchPad

Jan Cumps — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 21:22:44 GMT

This project uses the timers of a TI Hercules microcontroller to generate complex digital signals and to measure digital signals. The TI Hercules microcontroller has interesting timers. They call them high-end timers, HET. They are autonomous pr...(read more)

Automotive Lighting Market is estimated to reach 29.97 Billion USD by 2022

aaronsmithh — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:03:42 GMT

The Lighting Market for Automotive is projected to grow at a CAGR of 6.80% from 2017 to 2022 and is expected to reach USD 29.97 billion by 2022. Increasing vehicle production and lighting applications are the key factors driving the demand for lighti...(read more)