As a quick FYI to the followers of this blog, it's National Engineers Week in the U.S.! To commemorate the week, we created an infographic showing several benefits a career in engineering provides. Check it out at the link below! Engineering: A ...
(Left) The base Ototo kit (Right) Example of rocking out with an Ototo (via Kickstarter)Have you wanted to turn an eggplant into an instrument? What about that roll of aluminum foil? Well, if Yuri Suzuki’s team at Dentaku reaches its crowdfunding goa...
I'm still a proud watcher of the Olympics... 2 years later. The 2014 Winter Olympics officially began last Friday, but there are bigger concerns than who takes home the gold in this year’s games. Recent reports from homeland security and intelli...
Google's learning at sea ship to begin construction... this is a render of what the final vessel may look like. (via Google.)Google, the technology giant, has taken their innovation to sea, or so it seems. The company recently announced the developme...
Stefan Klein by a model of what is to be... (via digitaljournal)There has been talk about flying cars for years now, but Slovak engineer and designer Stefan Klein may have actually made the first viable flying car, with plans to begin production this...
Pattern recognition at its best. (via Bringham Young University)Anyone that has seen a Sci-Fi movie can tell you that eventually robots will take over the world. Well, Bringham Young University engineer Dah-Jye Lee has officially made the first step ...
Eindhoven University of Technology’s Robotic helper. (via EUofT)Believe it or not, robots sometimes have a tough time trying to communicate and learn from one another. Maybe it’s due to ‘language barriers’ (different programming languages) that cause...
"Mother." from sen.se... a robot that looks out for you. (via sen.se)Have you ever wanted to grow eyes in the back of your head to make sure your kids aren’t getting into trouble while you’re away? Sen.se, a French company, recently announc...
Concept art (via Footlogger)Avid runners may sprint when they hear about the newest activity tracking device that not only tracks distances during runs and calories burned, but also monitors heel strike patterns that can potentially predict the devel...
The amount of extra brush time the Kolibree toothbrush will generate will be unprecedented. Sad kids and enamel erosion on the way. (via Kolibree) The 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas last week revealed a novel way to en...
Ultrasonic levitation, also known as acoustic levitation, has been demonstrated a few times already. However, until recently it has not been possible to manipulate the suspended objects in free space. The levitation suspends objects in air by exploit...
Updated Anki Drive app offers up more upgrades.For those who have yet to get their driver’s license but want to battle-race in the REAL-WORLD should take a look at robotics/AI start-up Anki, whose Drive game is taking the world by storm. Anki Drive d...
'Omnicorp' unveiled Robocop at this year's CES in Las Vegas with this video. Omnicorp's bearded and be-suited representative gloats "We have created the most powerful and technological defense system in history" before adding chillingly "yet this was...
In the future drones in the sky will be just as common as aircraft. New, smaller technology has reduced the weight of common electronics and has allowed drones to be lighter, smaller, and easier to make. Getting drones up and flying is not a problem,...
ShoeboxCNC. They better bring the price down before returning to kickstater... (via SBCNC)Sometimes finding the right place to get started with robotics can be hard. You may have an idea of what you want to make, but choosing the right parts and all ...
Zepp’s GolfSense motion sensor, promo image. You get the gist.. glove... app... (via Zepp)Amateur golfers are always looking for that edge to go pro. Whether it is wearing crazy golf hats, using better clubs or hiring a coach, they are always looking...
MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) are becoming more prevalent in the electronics we use today and will play an even bigger role in technology being developed for the near future. The tiny nano-sized (1 to 100 micrometers in size) devices usuall...
Mark Mueller’s fail-safe algorithm (via Mark Mueller)Drones have a habit of dropping out of the sky no matter what size they are, including military UAVs such as the Predator and Reaper along with smaller civilian drones such as the hexacopter that c...
Andy Rubin... Google pushing accessible robots on us all? (Google) From the same company that brought the world one of the most popular search engines and mobile phone Operating Systems, Google recently announced a new project to take the world of ro...
Georgia Tech’s Tongue Drive System (via GT)There is a limited selection when it comes to wheelchairs that can be self-driven and maneuvered by quadriplegics. Controlling them usually consists of ‘breath-power’, where the user blows or inhales into a ...
SkyJack: Raspberry Pi equipped Parrot AR.Drone 2.0With the recent revelation that Iran had supposedly hijacked a US Navy RQ-170 Sentinel UAV by hacking its navigational systems, it wasn’t long before someone figured out how to do with hobbyist drones...
Tallinn University of Technology’s U-CAT robotic sea turtle in action (via Tallinn)Scientists and archeologists have been using submersible ROVs for decades to explore the oceans depths and those hard to reach shipwrecks. The problem with crafts/subs...
Amazon’s Prime Air octo-copter. Ready for package delivery! (via Amazon)Just when you think there is nothing left that drones can be used for, comes a sci-fi like story that’s seemingly hard to believe. In this case, it’s Amazon’s Prime Air delivery ...
A short introduction from Martin Mienkina (Field Application Engineer) on Kinetis M series MCUs one-Phase Power Meter ref design.Kinetis M series MCUs one-phase power meter reference design (DRM143) is intended for the measurement and registration of...
