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  • This palm reader predicts you’ll spend some money

    Catwell
    Have you ever stood in an agonizingly long line and wondered if there would ever be a faster way to pay for transactions than counting all the pennies in your piggy bank, one-by-one? Well, thanks to students at Lund University in Sweden, now there is...

  • 3D Gesture Technology RoadTest Plus - Open for Application

    patkelly
    Ever wanted to control your devices without the need to actually touch them? Turn on a light with the wave of your hand or control your music player with the flick of your finger. Designing with the GestIC©︎ technology from Microchip makes all these p...

  • SteelQuad: Steel Quality Sensing Device :: Mould Design (Week 3)

    lexbryan
    The mould will be used for casting concrete. For this project I will use 2 mould sizes; 2” dia. and 4” dia. with a height of 5”. Rebar samples will have 6” in length. Concrete will be poured into the mould with a rebar (steel) in the middle. Inductan...

  • Join MSS Piezo Technologies at Sensor+Test in June

    piezotech
    Join us at Stand 12-264 at Sensor+Test MSS Piezo Technologies will be exhibiting at the Sensor+Test conference in Nurnberg, Germany June 3-5, 2014.  At stand 12-264, Piezo Technologies' ultrasonic measurement solutions will showcased throug...

  • SteelQuad: Steel Quality Sensing Device (Week 2)

    lexbryan
    This week I received the kit but I had to pay PHP 515.00 to UPS.  I acquired the permit to use the Material Testing Laboratory of Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology.

  • Inductive sensing design challenge: Heamoglobin level sensing.

    arunmagesh
    Hello! Good day!Before i start let me thank element14, texas instrument, cadsoft for selecting my idea and sponsoring myproject idea,Let me break my crazy little idea i wish to do with Inductive sensor. Is measuring haemoglobin level in ourblood usin...

  • SteelQuad: Steel Quality Sensing Device (week 1)

    lexbryan
    OverviewSteel is one of the major components in building construction because of its constructability and strength. It provides tensile strength capacity to a structural concrete. The combination of steel and reinforced concrete offers a great deal i...

  • Inductive Sensing Design Challenge - ISDC

    COMPACT
    Hi Everyone,I purchased an LDC1000 when it was first released to evaluate it.It is capable of detecting sub micron distances. That's really impressive!And can be used for axial distance measurement, linear position measurement and angular position me...

  • Gain the competitive edge with high performance ultrasonic transducers

    piezotech
    As an NDT equipment manufacturer, you’re looking to gain that competitive advantage with precise measurements that are cost effective. How can we help?By providing high performance, standard and focused transducers built from specialized ceramic...

  • Sensor Board Layout for our Rocket

    kas.lewis
    This TimeIn this blog post I plan to go over the board layout for the components chosen in the previous blog entry and explain the reason for the layout and placements that I have chosen. I was hoping to give an outline for the software but due to th...

  • Help for CC2541 SensorTag from TI

    e14 Contributor
    Hello guys, I'm coming to you with a question regarding the sensor CC2541. I've been looking through the datasheet lately but I couldn't possibly find how I can change one special value: I'm trying to parameter the gyroscope so that it coul...

  • Adding Sensors to Our Rocket

    kas.lewis
    Hello all and welcome to my blog. In my blog I plan to look at sensors in interesting applications and how they can be tied with uC for processing or transmission to a remote location for other uses. I am currently working with a student team fr...

  • Sensor 400°C

    e14 Contributor
    Bonjour, Je suis à la recherche d'un capteur pouvant fonctionner à une température d'environ 400°C, pouvez-vous me dire si vous connaissez ce type de capteur? Si oui, avez-vous des références? Capteur: permet de capter une pale d'hélice à travers ...