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Dynamic Security Lock

Former Member

for my project i produced a security locking device where a new code was generated every hour. it used a one way encryption alogithm, to scramble the time and key data producing a new password. it has a number of features including admin login to gen...
- 13 May 2011
controllable robotic Arm and traxster (suket and Syed)

Former Member

The aim of this project is to control a Robotic Arm which is mounted on to the Traxster. Wii Nunchuck is used to control Robotic Arm and Traxster. We are just using the two buttons and the Joystick and this data is been transfers wireless...
- 13 May 2011
New and Notable at ESC Silicon Valley

GardenState

Going into the 2011 Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley I was looking forward in particular to seeing and hearing more about new MCUs and ecosystem developments. The show did not disappoint. If there was one product to capture “bes...
- 5 May 2011
5 times the density in ICs

Eavesdropper

Copper based ICs have reached nano-meter densities, with wire so small, that no current seizes to flow. The University of Cambridge professors John Robertson and Santiago Esconjauregui have devised a possible future solution. They are growing C...
- 29 Mar 2011
A.I. space travel

Eavesdropper

Spacecraft and rockets with no personnel onboard are controlled by people on the earth's surface. There is one major issue with this arrangement, time to action responses. When a rocket's onboard sensors discover an error, it relays the inform...
- 28 Mar 2011
Self-repairing processor

Eavesdropper

CRISP has developed a multi-core processor that will test and repair itself, sort of. There is an on-board resource manager that will test to see if a core is malfunctioning, and if so, send the tasks to a functioning core. The idea is to creat...
- 21 Mar 2011
GE and DARPA make new thermal conductive material, beats copper

Eavesdropper

“As electronics become more advanced, we are approaching the point where conventional materials like copper can’t take the heat. For computing to go faster and electronics systems to become more capable, better cooling solutions s...
- 17 Mar 2011
Video communication lunchbox

Eavesdropper

The purpose is to watch the person who made the lunch, make it, while you eat it. And also, so the preparer can watch you eat it. A never ending cycle. Researchers at Ochanomizu University have embedded a camera and LCD touchscreen into a lunch...
- 15 Mar 2011
XBOX XIM 3 teardown and analysis

Catwell

The XIM 3 stand for XBOX Input Machine version 3. For those who do not know, the XIM 3 allows for a keyboard, mouse, joystick, and other USB based devices to be adapted to the console. But that is not the end of the device's features. In ...
- 14 Mar 2011
Handheld scanner to see through clothes

Eavesdropper

www.youtube.com/watch Missouri University of Science and Technology is resolved to make a handheld scanner that can see through anything. Similar to airport scanners, this hand held camera used millimeter and microwave signals to peek inside. In...
- 7 Mar 2011
New Samsung DRAM delivers 12.8GB/sec

Eavesdropper

Samsung has taken DRAM to a whole new level, 12.8GB/sec, a great increase over the former LPDDR2. In the process, reducing power consumption by 87%. The increase in data transmission is due to the increase of I/O pins to 512 from the 32 the pri...
- 28 Feb 2011
Smallest complete computer system, smaller than a grain of rice

Eavesdropper

A complete computer system in 1 cubic millimeter. Onboard is a low power microcontroller, memory, battery, wireless radio, solar cell, and a pressure sensor. This system is meant to be an implantable eye pressure monitor for glaucoma patients. I'm su...
- 25 Feb 2011
First flexible carbon nanotube logic circuit printed

Eavesdropper

The first (sequential) logic circuit has been built using carbon nanotubes. The fast manufacturing process has been developed to print these circuits on TFT with a plastic sub straight resulting in a flexible circuit board. Professors Yutaka Ohno fro...
- 18 Feb 2011
iNAND embedded flash drives: continued development for mobile devices

Eavesdropper

Faster mobile device access is close at hand. SanDisk Corporation recently announced its next generation of iNAND and iNAND Ultra embedded flash drives featuring smaller and thinner form factors. Available in packages as small as 11.5mm x 13mm x 1mm,...
- 16 Feb 2011
New cell phone camera is actually 25 cameras

Eavesdropper

Pelican, a California startup company, is trying to make a big name for themselves by being a little outside the box. They a promoting a new camera for cellphones that consists of 25 small cameras. The concept is to spread available light over the 25...
- 16 Feb 2011
Harvard and MITRE researchers make world’s first programmable nanoprocessor

Eavesdropper

Engineers and scientists collaborating at Harvard University and the MITRE Corporation have developed and demonstrated the world's first programmable nanoprocessor. “This work represents a quantum jump forward in the complexity and function of circui...
- 11 Feb 2011
Atomically thin ‘switch’: a transistor made from graphene

ZeroSizeObject

Graphene molecular model image.A new transistor made from graphene, the world's thinnest material, has been developed by a research team at the University of Southampton. The new transistor achieves a record high-switching performance which will make...
- 8 Feb 2011
Engineers show-off particle accelerator on a chip

Eavesdropper

OK, so it can’t reach the energies produced at the LHC or Tevatron, but this is still pretty impressive. Engineers at a micro-electro mechanical systems conference that was held recently in Cancun, unveiled this tiny cyclotron device, which can speed...
- 7 Feb 2011
Marvell unveils their new triple-core mobile processor

Eavesdropper

Recently Marvell announced the world’s first ‘ultra-low power, ultra-high performance’ 1.5 GHz three-core processor that is the first to feature 3D graphics performance with quad unified shaders for 200 million triangles per second delivered on mobil...
- 4 Feb 2011
New technique ‘amps’ potential for gallium nitride electronics

ZeroSizeObject

Gallium nitride material holds promise for emerging high-power devices that are more energy efficient than existing technologies, but these GaN devices traditionally break down when exposed to high voltages. Now researchers at North Carolina State Un...
- 3 Feb 2011
New transistors: not made with silicon or graphene

ZeroSizeObject

Smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite. EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) published a study showing that this material has distinct advantages over traditional silicon ...
- 31 Jan 2011
New hardware boosts communication speed between ‘cores’ on computer chips

Eavesdropper

Computer engineers at North Carolina State University have developed hardware that allows programs to operate more efficiently by significantly boosting the speed at which the ‘cores’ on a computer chip communicate with each other. The core, or...
- 31 Jan 2011
Researchers showing off flexible transistor

Eavesdropper

In what could only be described as ‘fervent scientist madness’, researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a transistor with excellent stability and performance for use on plastic electronics. In addition, it can be manufactured at relatively low tem...
- 28 Jan 2011
Researchers create new low-cost Lab-on-chip using paper

Eavesdropper

Researchers have invented a technique that uses inexpensive paper to make ‘microfluidic’ devices for rapid medical diagnostics and chemical analysis. Current lab-on-a-chip technology is relatively expensive because chips must be specifically designed...
- 28 Jan 2011
Compal launches Robii with integrated Himax pico-projector, touch surface

ZeroSizeObject

Taiwan-based handset ODM Compal Communications recently unveiled Robii, its first smart robot designed to accompany children aged 5-10, for sale under its own brand UrRobot, according to the company. Robii integrates image/voice recognition, sensors ...
- 27 Jan 2011