Famous Circuits Blog: June 2013

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This Week in Cybercrime: Cybercrime’s Industrial Revolution

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Plus: Most of us have already been cybercrime victims, and Europe's cybercrime laws might make matters worse

U.S. Climate Plan Covers the Bases

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 09:50 PM PDT

In this particular case, there appears to be no devil in the details

Techy at day, Blogger at noon, and a Hobbyist at night

Battery Voltage Indicator

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 07:54 PM PDT

Many enthusiast and motorcycle rider ride their bike, using electric starter to start the engine undoubtly knowing the battery gone flat, charging system might have gone down but no visual indicator that the system indeed is not charging or have problems...so in the first place why not build one to visualize you anything bout battery voltage on board the bike. Using pic microcontroller and

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2-D Nanomaterials Put Photovoltaics on a Diet

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Stacking 2-D materials gives them just enough energy conversion efficiency to put them in the running for PVs.

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LM324 Quad OP-AMP

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 10:14 PM PDT

The LM324 IC is derived high popular that used in many circuit diagram. Which is a package of four operational amplifiers (OP-AMP) that can be powered by a battery or other single-polarity supply(positive and negative only) over a very wide voltage range. The four op-amps are installed in a single 14-pin package. You can use [...]

Mini 40 watt audio car amplifiers using HA13001

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:22 AM PDT

From this 20watt Integrated Amplifier project. Some people say that expensive and want the main amplifier only. I recommend this project, it had a budget of only 5$. and is the main amplifier. They have size of power to speaker is 40 watts and use voltage of power supply is 12 volts so can apply [...]

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The Nearly Effortless Flight of the Albatross
Video Friday: Japan's Space Humanoid, Robot Golfer, and Most Destructive Bot Ever
Fighting Coal to a Draw
A Cheaper Option to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Synthetic Fuel
How Often are EHRs Placing Patients at Risk?
The DNA Data Deluge
DARPA VRC Challenge Results: Here's Who Gets an ATLAS Humanoid
Is Putin Pulling the Plug on Russian Nanotechnology?

The Nearly Effortless Flight of the Albatross

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:59 AM PDT

Measuring and modeling the bird's aerial behavior could inspire new drone designs

Video Friday: Japan's Space Humanoid, Robot Golfer, and Most Destructive Bot Ever

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:17 AM PDT

Time to stop working and spend the rest of your day watching robot videos

Fighting Coal to a Draw

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Renewables are making progress, but not enough to dent emissions

A Cheaper Option to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Synthetic Fuel

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:47 PM PDT

Maybe we won't need to bury carbon dioxide after all

How Often are EHRs Placing Patients at Risk?

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 11:19 AM PDT

No one knows as unsettling problems pop up in transition to electronic health records

The DNA Data Deluge

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 10:32 AM PDT

Fast, efficient genome sequencing machines are spewing out more data than geneticists can analyze

DARPA VRC Challenge Results: Here's Who Gets an ATLAS Humanoid

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT

DARPA announces winners of its Virtual Robotics Challenge

Is Putin Pulling the Plug on Russian Nanotechnology?

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:09 PM PDT

After Putin appeared poised to sacrifice Rusnano, the organization gets a reprieve

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Gooseneck Camera and Sensor Mount

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:30 PM PDT

We now have an awesome mounting solution for robot cameras and robot sensors available. Our custom made Gooseneck Mount is compatible with Bioloid brackets and works with all our Camera mounts. It can also work as a stand alone mount with the base or wall mount.

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Spintronic Thermometer for Taking Temperatures of Single Cells
Smart Ford 'Brake Light' Alerts Drivers to Slowing Traffic
Kinect 2.0 Developer Kit Preorder Applications Now Open

Spintronic Thermometer for Taking Temperatures of Single Cells

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 07:48 AM PDT

Spin-and-temperature-dependent fluorescence of diamond defects push limits of thermal measurement

Smart Ford 'Brake Light' Alerts Drivers to Slowing Traffic

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 06:35 AM PDT

Ford tested a brake light system that tells drivers when cars ahead begin to slow down

Kinect 2.0 Developer Kit Preorder Applications Now Open

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:56 PM PDT

We don't know exactly what the new Kinect is capable of, but you can get on the list for one as of today

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How to install CCD camera sensor with VHF sender

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:02 AM PDT

The CCD camera sensor is device that have very useful. This project has small size. But quality is a lot good. We can install with Television easily through the video in terminals. and connects to the video signal modulated to To send a broadcast RF signal is explicit is better. This project can be adapted [...]

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Where the Jobs Are: 2013
What Else Can We Do with Autonomous Military Vehicles?
Remembrance of Everything Past
Inside the World’s First Braille Cellphone
New Tech Keeps Data Centers Cool in Warm Climates
Obama Delivers a Defining Speech on Climate Change
Nanomaterials Go Beyond Post-Silicon to Post-Semiconductor

Where the Jobs Are: 2013

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 08:35 AM PDT

Opportunities are opening up in manufacturing

What Else Can We Do with Autonomous Military Vehicles?

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 07:42 AM PDT

Companies that make UGVs for the military look to expand into the civilian sector

Remembrance of Everything Past

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 07:00 AM PDT

More information could enhance cognition and lead to better decision making—or drown us in a deluge of data points

Inside the World’s First Braille Cellphone

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Bringing smartphone capabilities to India's blind

New Tech Keeps Data Centers Cool in Warm Climates

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:10 PM PDT

Hot water from some computers drives the refrigeration of others

Obama Delivers a Defining Speech on Climate Change

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 04:09 PM PDT

He also delivers a comprehensive plan, but in this case the rhetoric may be more important than the details

Nanomaterials Go Beyond Post-Silicon to Post-Semiconductor

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:23 AM PDT

Researchers develop a nanotube and quantum dot system that enables a transistor that doesn't use a semiconductor material

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RobotShop Secures An Additional 100 000 sq. ft of Land

Today, we announce we secured an additional 100,000 square feet of land (highlighted in yellow in the picture below) that is adjacent to the 60,000 square we already own, totaling more than 160,000 square feet (3.67 acres).

RobotShop Land

RobotShop is maintaining a strong growth year after year and in just two years, we have already filled our current 15,000 square feet space at 70% of its capacity. For the next phases of expansion, we plan to be build a 55 feet tall structure (25 feet for warehouse space plus two additional floors, so more than twice the current height), thus attaining the height limit permitted by the city in this area.

I can share here an artistic preview of the completed building, and please don’t be too critical since I am the artist . This is a preliminary draft and that will certainly change. Actual plans made by architects will be created in the next few weeks.