Peter, Jon and I are building a Programmable Electronic Load. In this series of blogs I'm building a LabVIEW library of reusable components In this fifth article: Enable and Disable the Input. LabVIEW has a set of blocks to build flows ...
Exercising and fun have merged with the new health tracker: a hula hoop that track your data while the user is having fun spinning the hoop around his waist. Pitcured, Vhoop segments and bag. (Image via Vhoop) Every day researchers are looking ...
Peter, Jon and I are building a Programmable Electronic Load. In this series of blogs I'm building a LabVIEW library of reusable components In this fourth article: Set the constant mode function to Current, Voltage, Power or Resistance ...
Peter, Jon and I are building a Programmable Electronic Load. In this series of blogs I'm building a LabVIEW library of reusable components In this third article: Close all instrument resources LabVIEW has a set of blocks to build flows...
Peter, Jon and I are building a Programmable Electronic Load. In this series of blogs I'm building a LabVIEW library of reusable components In this second article: Reading the the instrument's measurements LabVIEW has a ...
IntroductionOver the years I’ve tried many sorts of wire strippers, ranging from knives!, cheap adjustable wire strippers, combined crimp/strip tools and so on. I was not happy with most of them. They were either just good for a very limited range of...
A group of researchers developed a system that could help improve the brain’s ability to recall events in patients with brain deterioration. However, it is too early for the technology to be used for Alzheimer’s patients. A Deep-Brain Stimulation dev...
Note: This project, by its nature, needs to connect to the mains supply. It shouldn’t be left unattended and should only be constructed and used by engineers. The information is for educational purposes only, and there is no guarantee that it will be...
Moriyama performing with the orchestra. An AI created by Yamaha motors can create piano music from a human's dance moves. (via Yamaha) Amazon.com introduced to the world to Alexa, inside the smart speaker called Echo Alexa was one of the first c...
Nintendo’s Labo accessory kits allow users to build their own cardboard constructs for gaming interaction. (Image credit: Nintendo) I’m inspired by this Nintendo Experiment. Can it be applied to SBCs and other development boards? Nintendo ...
Introduction For a while now I have been slowly upgrading some old tools, and also creating some simple tool kits to store at certain facilities so that I don't have to carry around a large tool kit from place to place. I have ratchet c...
www.youtube.com/watchDeepFrame is a 64-inch screen that allows you to interact with characters and objectsAnd you thought the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were scary AR is meant to change the way we see entertainment, and while there’s been some ...
US Ski team member Laurenne Ross training using the STRIVR VR platform. (Image credit: U.S. Ski and Snowboard) I love the Olympics. The Olympics is packed with technology. Over the 2018 Winter Games, I plan to cover a lot of the latest innovati...
Batemika Measurement Solutions was able to improve the accuracy of its UT-ONE family of thermometer readouts by implementing a VHP101THermetically-Sealed Bulk Metal Foil resistor as the internal reference resistor. Long-term drifts were improved fro...
(Image credit: Pixabay) Stanford University’s SQuAD (Stanford Question Answering Dataset) is a reading and comprehension test based on 500+ Wikipedia articles and tests the comprehension of words where the answer to every question is a segment ...
In collaboration with a few researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Microsoft created a software that will allow scientists to do the most precise gene editing possible. The technology has been inspired by nature itself. At time...
Magic Leap reveals its AR headset which aims to open up new building experiences for users and creators alike. This headset looks like something out of Riddick or Mad Max, kind of cool. (Photo via Magic Leap) If you’ve been following Magic Leap,...
EPFL scientists developed the sensory-enhanced prosthetic hand to give amputees their sense of feeling back. (Image credit: BBC video screenshot) Back in 1993, Almerina Mascarello lost her left hand in an accident at a steel factory, 25 years l...
Peter, Jon and I are building a Programmable Electronic Load. In this series of blogs I'm building a LabVIEW library of reusable components In this first article: Initialising the instrument LabVIEW has a set of blocks to build flows ...
Here is short presentation of battery replacement in my small portable digital multimeter: Appa iMeter 5. I really like this portable digital multimeter. Only one cons of this multimeter is that no True RMS functionality and small range of capacitor ...
A new wireless microphone on the market claims to provide better sound than anything else on the market. But it might not be for everyone. (Image via Mikme) Simple ideas executed elegantly are a great inspiration. I think this could be made a bi...
The HRU standard resistors (10 ohm and 100 ohm) will be formally used on the Watt Balance system for mass standard which has been developed by NIST (US) and NRC (Canada) as next generation’s mass standard unit from 2018. At Watt Balance system, curre...
Grab your smartphone and lightsaber and battle foes like Kylo Ren in your living room. (Image credit Lenovo) I no longer have to ‘play fight’ Star Wars villains using my imagination, a wrapping paper tube, and voice effects thanks to Lenovo’s S...
Buoy is an all-in-one solution that uses algorithms to monitor water usage in real time, alerts you when there are leaks and offers remote shutdown capability (Image credit Buoy Labs) Who knew you could task AI and machine learning to monitor ...
